STAGE 6

Visual Arts is a subject that contributes to an ATAR

This course provides students with the opportunity to develop their own artworks, culminating in a 'Body of Work' in the HSC course. Students engage in critical and historical study of the artworld to investigate artists, artworks, worlds and audiences from a range of cultural, political, historical and social perspectives and use these to inform their own artmaking practices.

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. Students develop their own artworks, culminating in a 'body of work' in the HSC course.

Preliminary Course

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.

Course Requirements

• artworks in at least two expressive forms and use of a process diary

• a broad investigation of ideas in artmaking, art criticism and art history

HSC Course Description

HSC course learning opportunities focus on:

• how students may develop their practice in artmaking, art criticism and art history

• how students may develop their own informed points of view in increasingly independent ways and use different interpretive frameworks in their investigations

• how students may learn about the relationships between artists, artworks, the world and audiences within the artworld and apply these to their own investigations

• how students may further develop meaning and focus in their work.

Course Requirements

• development of a body of work and use of a process diary

• a minimum of five case studies (4–10 hours each)

• deeper and more complex investigations in artmaking, art criticism and art history.