Achievement objectives

Students will:

• investigate and analyse the relationship between the production of art works and the contexts in which they were made, viewed, and valued

• consider and reflect on contexts underlying their own and others' work.

Indicators

• Identifies particular examples within art works that show the impact of a time, place, or culture on how and why they were made.

• Describes how personal, social, historical, and technological factors influenced or informed elements of the art work, such as how they were made, perceived, and appreciated by the audiences and critics.

• Discusses the way in which meaning is made from an art work.

• Identifies influencing factors on their own work and how these shaped decisions about the production and presentation of the work.

Achievement objective

Students will:

• apply knowledge of a range of conventions from established practice, using appropriate processes and procedures.

Indicators

• Makes art works that use conventions learned from the study of established practice.

• Makes art works that use formal elements (line, shape, space, colour, tone, point, texture, form, mass) and principles (balance, harmony, rhythm, tension, contrast, and so on) in a way that is consistent with established practice.

• Uses a variety of media to produce a range of visual effects.

Achievement objectives

Students will:

• generate, develop, and clarify ideas, showing some understanding of established practice

• sequence and link ideas systematically as they solve problems in a body of work, using observation and invention with an appropriate selection of materials.

Indicators

• Students develop ideas through research, observation, imagination, and action.

• They discover ideas from a variety of sources in their inner and outer worlds.

• They challenge, extend, and organise them visually in ways that connect with their local and global audiences.

• They develop ideas in response to further research, experiences, feelings, self-critique, and critique from others.

• Students use selected methods to explore and develop thematic and pictorial ideas in their practice.

• They express these ideas through using a range of materials and approaches.

• They reflect on, test, clarify, and regenerate ideas as they solve problems, individually and collaboratively, through making objects and images.

Achievement objectives

Students will:

• identify and analyse processes and procedures from established practice that influence ways of communicating meaning

• investigate, analyse, and evaluate ideas and interpret artists’ intentions in art works.

Indicators

• Examines art works from established practice to identify how particular processes and procedures influence the meaning made from them (for example, what, in the size and colours of Anne Noble’s Ruby’s Room photographs, makes them seem strange or unnerving).

• Identifies particular elements of art works from established practice that communicate certain ideas or emotions (for example: What ideas are communicated through the processes and materials used in Ralph Hotere’s Black Phoenix installation [1984–1988])? 

• Compares the difference between seeing an image of an art work in a book or on the Internet and seeing the art work in the ‘real’. Discuss what makes these experiences of the art work different in these contexts.

• Interprets the ideas artists intend to communicate through their art works (for example, What ideas is Joanna Braithwaite communicating through her Wild Things series of paintings?).

• Interprets the meanings that art works communicate, and discusses how these are similar to or different from the intentions attributed to them in artists’ statements or reviewers’ interpretations.