Visual Arts provides students with opportunities to understand and appreciate the role of visual arts in past and present traditions and cultures, as well as the contributions of contemporary visual artists and their aesthetic, historical and cultural influences. Students interact with artists, artworks, institutions and communities to enrich their experiences and understandings of their own and others’ art practices.
Students have opportunities to construct knowledge and communicate personal interpretations by working as both artist and audience. They use their imagination and creativity to innovatively solve problems and experiment with visual language and expression.
Through an inquiry learning model, students develop critical and creative thinking skills. They create individualised responses and meaning by applying diverse materials, techniques, technologies and art processes.
In responding to artworks, students employ essential literacy skills to investigate artistic expression and critically analyse artworks in diverse contexts. They consider meaning, purposes and theoretical approaches when ascribing aesthetic value and challenging ideas.
A course of study in Visual Arts can establish a basis for further education and employment in the fields of arts practice, design, craft, and information technologies; broader areas in creative industries and cultural institutions; and diverse fields that use skills inherent in the subject, including advertising, arts administration and management, communication, design, education, galleries and museums, film and television, public relations, and science and technology.
By the conclusion of the course of study, students will:
Through inquiry learning, the following are explored:
Formative Internal Assessment 1: Project — Experiment folio
25
Formative Internal Assessment 2: Investigation — Reverse chronology
15
Through inquiry learning, the following are explored:
Formative Internal Assessment 3: Project — Inquiry phase 3
35
Formative Internal Assessment 4: Examination
25
Through inquiry learning, the following are explored:
Summative Internal Assessment 1: Investigation – Inquiry phase 1
15
Summative Internal Assessment 2: Project – Inquiry phase 2
25
Through inquiry learning, the following are explored:
Summative Internal Assessment 3: Project — Inquiry phase 3
35
Summative External Assessment: Examination
25
