Length: 10-week rotation

Recommended background: None

Content:

Students learn in, through and about visual arts practices, developing practical skills, techniques, processes and products with a diverse range of materials. They explore a range of forms, styles and social, cultural and historical contexts. Students develop their own arts knowledge and preferences as well as a practical and critical understanding of how the artist uses an artwork to engage audiences and communicate meaning. Students view, manipulate, reflect on, analyse, appreciate and evaluate their own and others’ visual artworks.

This course will introduce students to the elements of visual art, which are fundamental to all learning in this subject: line, shape, colour, texture, space, tone or value and form.

Students will develop an awareness of their own identity and the world around them by communicating through visual means. Students will be exposed to a range of techniques and media conducting experiments with an emphasis on each art element leading to the creation of a resolved artwork.

Assessment:

Students’ performance will be determined according to the subject’s Achievement Standards as outlined in the framework of the Australian Curriculum. Grades A to E will be used for reporting purposes. This includes assessment of achievement in both making and responding.