Visual Arts
Course Type: Board Developed Course
Units: 2
Prerequisites: N/A
Exclusions: N/A
Visual Arts involves students in the practices of artmaking, art criticism and art history. Students develop their own artworks culminating in a ‘body of work’ in the HSC Course that reflects students’ knowledge and understanding about the practice and which demonstrates their ability to resolve a conceptually strong work. Students critically investigate works, critics, historians and artists from Australia as well as those from other cultures, traditions and times.
The Preliminary course is broad, while the HSC course provides for deeper, increasingly more independent investigations. While the course builds on Visual Arts courses in Stages 4 and 5, it also caters for students with more limited experience in Visual Arts.
Year 11 Course learning opportunities focus on:
The nature of Practice in art making, art criticism and art history through different investigations
The role and function of artists’ artwork, the world and audiences in the art world
The Frames 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.
HSC Course learning opportunities focus on:
How students may develop their own informed points of view in increasingly more independent ways using the Frames
How students may develop their own Practice of artmaking, art criticism, and art history applied to selected areas of interest
How students may learn about the relationships between artist, artwork, world, audience within the art world
How students may further develop meaning and focus in their work.
Assessment:
Year 11 Course
Artworks in at least 2 forms and use of a process diary
A broad investigation of ideas in art criticism and art history
HSC Course
Development of a Body of Work and use of a process diary
A minimum of 5 Case Studies (4–10 hours each)
Deeper and more complex investigations of ideas in art criticism and art history.
University:
Bachelor Visual Art design
Bachelor Design
Bachelor Visual Arts
Bachelor Creative Arts
Bachelor Creative Industries
Bachelor Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Bachelor Design - Photography
Bachelor Digital Media
Careers:
Art Teacher
Cartoonist
Decorator
Engraver
Graphic Designer
Interior Designer
Painter
Photographer
Printmaker
Screen Printer
Sculptor
Spray Painter