Visual Art

Subject: Visual Art

Subject Type: Elective

Year Level/s / Unit Length: 10 – One Semester Only

Why study this subject?

Visual Art engages, inspires and enriches students, exciting the imagination and encouraging them to reach their creative and expressive potential. Study in Visual Arts interrogates the human experience and challenges our understandings by encouraging and provoking alternative ways of seeing, thinking and doing. It enables us to know and observe our world collectively and as individuals. It reveals a sense of who we are and who we might become as we make connections and new meaning of the world around us and our place in it.

Visual Arts prepares young people for participation in the 21st Century by fostering curiosity and imagination, and teaching students how to generate and apply new and creative solutions when problem-solving in a range of contexts. This learnt ability to think in divergent ways and produce creative and expressive responses enables future artists, designers and craftspeople to innovate and collaborate with the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics to design and manufacture images and objects that enhance and contribute significantly to our daily lives.

What do students study?

• Acrylic on canvas painting • Clay sculpture • Multi-colour lino printing • Graphic design • Art history • Visual literacy • Analysis and interpretation of artwork • Introspection • Social commentary

Assessment Techniques

Making tasks account for 70% of a student’s overall grade, while responding tasks account for 30% of a student’s grade.

Assessment techniques include: • Making task • Folio/Visual diary • Responding task

Senior School Pathways

• Visual Art (General)

Units available for selection:

Subject

Code Unit Title

ART5 Modern Art – Painting ‘There be Dragons’ - Sculpture

ART6 ‘Read the fine print’ – Lino Print Graphic Design – Mixed Media

Semesters Available

1 2 Pre-requisites

✓ At least a C standard in 9 English and Visual Art is recommended. ✓ A minimum of C standard in 9 English andVisual Art is recommended.