Year 11 Visual Arts

Preliminary Course

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.

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

Preliminary 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.

Particular Course Requirements

Preliminary Course:

• Artworks in at least two expressive forms and use of a process diary
• a broad investigation of ideas in art making, art criticism and art history.