Visual Arts
The Elective Visual Arts course can be studied for 100 or 200 hours in Stage 5 (Years 9 and 10).
Course Description
Visual Arts provides opportunities for students to enjoy the making and studying of art. It builds an understanding of the role of art in all forms of media, both in the contemporary and historical world, and enables students to represent their ideas and interests in artworks. Visual Arts enables students to become informed about, understand and write about their contemporary world.
What will students learn about?
Students learn about the pleasure and enjoyment of making different kinds of artworks in 2D, 3D and/or 4D forms. They learn to represent their ideas and interests with reference to contemporary trends and how artists’ including painters, sculptors, architects, designers and photographers make artworks.
Students learn about how art is shaped by different beliefs, values and meanings by exploring artists and artworks from different times and places and relationships in the art world between the artist – artwork – world – audience. They also explore how their own lives and experiences can influence their art making and critical and historical studies.
What will students learn to do?
Students learn to make artworks using a range of materials and techniques in 2D, 3D and 4D forms, including traditional and more contemporary forms, site-specific works, installations, video and digital media and other ICT forms, to build a body of work over time. They learn to develop their research skills, approaches to experimentation and how to make informed personal choices and judgements. They learn to record procedures and activities about their art making practice in their Visual Arts diary.
They learn to investigate and respond to a wide range of artists and artworks in art making, critical and historical studies. They also learn to interpret and explain the function of and relationships in the art world between the artist – artwork – world – audience to make and study artworks.
Course Requirements
Students are required to produce a body of work and keep a Visual Arts diary.
Excursions
Art Gallery study day.
School Certificate
Satisfactory completion of the mandatory Visual Arts course in Stage 4 will be recorded on the student’s School Certificate Record of Achievement Part A. Satisfactory completion of 100 or 200 hours of elective study in Visual Arts during Stage 5 (Years 9 and 10) will also be recorded with a grade on the student’s School Certificate Record of Achievement Part A.
*Additional costs and materials incurred for this elective.