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Course Description
Course Description
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.
Main Topics Covered
Main Topics Covered
Year 11 Course
• The nature of practice in artmaking, 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, focus and interest in their work
• Building understandings over time through various investigations and working in different forms.
Year 12 Course
• 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.
Particular Course Requirements
Particular Course Requirements
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
Year 12 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
Assessment: HSC Course
Assessment: HSC Course
External Assessment
A Written Paper - 50%
Submission Of A Body Of Work - 50%
Internal Assessment
Artmaking - body of work
Art Criticism And Art History
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