Visual Arts

VISUAL ARTS STAGE 6 COURSE DESCRIPTION

CATEGORY A

Course number(s):

• 11380 Visual Arts (2 units – Year 11)

• 15400 Visual Arts (2 units – HSC)

Prerequisites: Nil

Course description

Visual Arts involves students in artmaking, art criticism and art history. Students critically and historically investigate artworks, critics, historians and artists from Australia as well as those from other cultures, traditions and times. Students develop their own artworks, culminating in a 'body of work' in the HSC course.

What students learn

Year 11 Course

The Year 11 course is broadly focused, while the HSC course provides for deeper and more complex investigations.

Year 11 course learning opportunities focus on:

• the nature of practice in artmaking, art criticism and art history through different investigations

• the role and function of artists, artworks, the world and audiences in the artworld

• the different ways the visual arts may be interpreted and how students might develop their own informed points of view

• how students may develop meaning and focus and interest in their work

• building understandings over time through various investigations and working in different forms.

While the course builds on Visual Arts courses in Stages 4 and 5, it also caters for students with less experience in Visual Arts.

Year 12 course

HSC course learning opportunities focus on:

• how students may develop their practice in artmaking, art criticism and art history

• how students may develop their own informed points of view in increasingly independent ways and use different interpretive frameworks in their investigations

• how students may learn about the relationships between artists, artworks, the world and audiences within the artworld and apply these to their own investigations

• how students may further develop meaning and focus in their work.

Course requirements

Year 11:

• artworks in at least two expressive forms and use of a process diary

• a broad investigation of ideas in artmaking, art criticism and art history.

Year 12 course:

• development of a body of work and use of a process diary

• a minimum of five case studies (4–10 hours each)

• deeper and more complex investigations in artmaking, art criticism and art history.