Year 12 ATAR - Task 1B- Final Artwork

Assessment Information- Task 1B

Task 1B - Resolved Artwork, Artist Statement & Visual Evidence of Work in Progress

Due Date: Thursday 22nd May (Semester 1, Week 14/ Term 2, Week 4)

Assessment Type: Examinable task; Production

Assessment Conditions:

Time for the task: 13-14 weeks (includes class time and requires out-of-class work time)
All tasks are required to be completed in accordance with the school’s assessment policy.

Task Weighting: 40% of the practical mark for the year

Final Artwork Development & Stages

Developing your Ideas

Development is about creativity and exploring ideas in different ways. After your initial response to a stimulus, it is important that you don't just keep producing analytical drawings or artist copies. This isn't development.

Development is about selecting ideas, visual elements, compositions and techniques from this initial work and using them in new ways. It is important that you don't become too attached to your first idea.

Don't worry if the work you produce seems unresolved and isn't perfect. It is an important part of the creative process to try out new things and to make creative decisions based on what works and what doesn't.

And don't worry if you try something that doesn't work. Showing creativity is more important at this stage. Remember you can refine your work and produce a more finished result for the sustained project in your portfolio and your assignment.

Exploring Composition

You should make development studies, such as drawings and paintings to show experimentation with composition. If you are working in 3D, you might make sketches and maquettes.

There are a number of different ways composition can be developed:

Move objects around in a still life or change the pose in portraiture or figure composition.
Try different arrangements, eg linear, triangular or circular compositions.
Change how natural, organised, busy or sparce your composition is.
Use different amounts of negative space, showing more or less background.
Experiment with leading lines to draw the viewer's eye into the composition.
Change the height and angle of your viewpoint.
Use frames within frames eg looking through objects to frame elements of the composition.
Create a cropped composition by zooming in to a specific area.
Try different backgrounds.

Using Technology

Taking photographs of different arrangements can help development:

You can try out different viewpoints and arrangements quickly.
It is easy to change between landscape and portrait format to try different effects.
The camera's viewfinder can be used to 'frame' compositions and preview the result.
Working from photographs can be more practical for subjects that might move or where conditions might change.
New compositions can be created by cropping existing images digitally.

Using Visual Elements & Principles in development

Artists use the visual elements & principles in different combinations to create particular creative effects and styles. The development stage should involve exploring and experimenting with several visual elements & principles and deciding which you enjoy and which you show strength in using. The key visual elements & principles you focus on will depend on the theme and style of work you are developing.

For example, a student who is inspired by the work of Van Gogh may choose to concentrate on:

line
texture
expressive use of colour

By the time you move to working on a final piece, you should have made decisions about your intended style and which visual elements are the most important.

Developing use of Materials & Techniques

Early development is an opportunity to try out materials and techniques that are new to you or that you may not be confident with. You have nothing to lose at this stage - some studies will be more succesful than others.

You can save time by trying a few different techniques on one development study. This can be done by splitting it into sections and applying different materials in each section. Alternatively, you may draw a development study, but only work up a small section in a selected technique.

Experimenting with materials will help you decide on your strengths and which techniques you would like to develop in your portfolio and assignment.

Choosing materials and techniques to develop- Think about the techniques which will let you develop your intended style and help you to communicate your theme effectively.

Refining Ideas

After your initial development you should select an idea and work on refining it. Refinement is the improvement of the idea. It does not involve radical changes but is about making small changes which improve the idea in some way. This might be done by:

Modification of the composition – e.g. replacing one object with another or changing a pose slightly
Variation of a technique - e.g. trying oil pastel rather than painting to achieve an expressive style
Adaptation of the idea - e.g. including some detail in the foreground of a landscape to add more depth and distance
Alteration of an aspect - e.g. arranging objects in a triangular composition instead of a linear grouping, or changing the colour of the sky in a coastal scene to achieve a more dramatic atmosphere
Enhancing an element of the idea - e.g. improving the application of a particular technique, or harmonising the background colours with other aspects of the composition
Fine-tuning a technique or an aspect of the composition.
Tweaking the positioning of a subject to make the composition more balanced, or to create more tension, as appropriate.

Avoiding the Cliche.pdf

Outline of Task 1B - Resolved Artwork

Visual Language

Elements and Principles of Art

Develop your artwork with consideration for the elements and principles of art, signs, symbols, codes and conventions of the visual arts.
Explore compositional devices, textural techniques and colour palettes in your own work.

Art Practice

Resolved artwork

Source relevant materials and media for the completion of your resolved artwork.
Finalise your ideas by producing an artwork (or a collection or suite of works) in response to the selected theme.

Presentation

Exhibiting Artwork

Complete your resolved artwork and identify any specific materials or equipment needed to display your work by the due date.
Your piece must be completed (exhibition ready) and ready to display by the due date.

Reflection

Artist Statement

With reference to your journal notes, write a 300-word artist statement about the resolution of your ideas, influences and development of the resolved artwork.

Marking Key

Task 1B Marking Key.pdf

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