The elective Visual Art course in Year 9 and 10 builds on the mandatory course in Year 7 and 8 and provides extension and depth of study in visual arts. This course provides students with ongoing opportunities to demonstrate their understanding of the visual arts. They are provided with opportunities to engage in the visual arts practices of making, critical study and historical study. In this course, artist practice, the frames and conceptual framework are considered through the Christian worldview.
Content
- Art making: Students will explore a range of ideas and interests in the world in a least three of the broad areas of 2D, 3D and/or 4D forms. Students will maintain a visual arts process diary as they make specific explorations of ideas and interests, formulate ideas for artworks and record relevant technical information. Students will make artworks that build a body of work, developed over time, using an extended range of materials and techniques and various investigations of the world.
- Critical study. This provides students with opportunities to interpret and evaluate artists and artworks in the visual arts through developing the skills and understanding of art criticism.
- Historical study. This provides students with opportunities to understand and explain artists and artworks in the visual arts through developing the understanding and skills of art history.
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