Visual Arts: Art

Length of Course

Semester, Full Year

Level

Marian - Year 11

Category

The Arts

Core or Elective

Elective

Pre-requisites

N/A

Subject Description

Visual Arts: Art engages students in conceptual and practical aspects of creative human endeavour. It emphasises visual thinking and investigation and the ability to develop ideas, refine technical skills and produce imaginative solutions. Students learn to communicate personal thoughts, values and feelings, and represent their lived or imagined experiences in visual form. Of particular interest in this subject are past and present influences that impact on the visual arts: local and global events, social and political values, different perspectives provided by the diversity of cultural groups, and the styles, aesthetic values and philosophies of artists from different contexts. Students may use a variety of media, materials, techniques and methods in Visual Arts: Art.

Content
  • Visual thinking – developing the skills to think visually and recording this thinking through practical and written forms
  • Practical resolution – experimentation with media, methods and materials in the development of personally relevant concepts
  • Visual Arts in context- analysis and response to a variety of artworks from different social, cultural and historical contexts.
Assessment

At Stage 1 assessment is school-based. During a teaching, learning and assessment program the teacher makes decisions about the quality of evidence of student learning against the performance standards demonstrated through assessments. At the end of the program the teacher uses the performance standards to make an on-balance decision about the quality and standard of a student’s set of evidence of learning. Students have the opportunity to demonstrate evidence of their learning in Stage 1 Visual Arts: Art, through the following assessment types:

Assessment Type 1: Folio
Assessment Type 2: Practical
Assessment Type 3: Visual Study

Pathways

Visual Arts: Art enables students to develop the skills required to continue their study in Stage 2 Visual Arts: Art.

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Marian - Year 11 - Visual Arts: Art