The focus for this unit is points of view. Students identify and explore concepts or issues of personal significance in the presentation of a sustained, articulate and authentic body of work. They engage in sustained inquiry, exploring ideas and developing concepts to communicate a personal point of view.
Students investigate a range of solutions using visual language and document the progressive resolution of thinking and working practices. Skills, techniques and processes are combined in the pursuit of new art forms, innovation and personal style.
Students use critical analysis frameworks to develop an understanding of the practice of art making and art interpretation. They research and analyse factors affecting points of view such as time, place, culture, religion and politics, synthesising this knowledge to express a personal viewpoint or position. In the analysis of their own and others’ artwork, students reflect on the relationship between artwork, audiences and contextual factors, and consider how these contribute to the development of different perspectives.
Teachers and students explore one or more of the following suggested contexts in this unit (this list is not exhaustive):
· concepts: spiritual identity, the art and science nexus, duality, disunity, spirituality, aesthetics
· styles and approaches: land art, hybrid art, virtual art, installation, environmental art
· materials: multimedia
· meanings and messages: social and political environments, issues such as gender and race, personally significant contemporary themes, consumer society
· purposes: social and/or personal expression, social, cultural and political commentaries.