12 ARt Practical
Welcome to 12ARP
12ARP builds on the skills learned in 11ARP and focuses on the media of painting. The course recognises, values and contributes to the unique bicultural and multicultural character of Aotearoa.
It integrates a wide range of problem-solving skills through looking at context of established practice and sustained creativity into the future. You will generate ideas that are influenced by a range of artists from modern, contemporary and NZ artists.
LEARNING IN VISUAL ARTS [responsibilities]
expand section to see what YOU and YOUR TEACHER are responsible for during your course
My teacher is responsible for:
Setting art assignments that are challenging but achievable for me
Supplying me with good equipment and materials to do my art
Helping me to understand what I need to do and improve my work
Encouraging and motivating me
Marking my work and giving me feedback so that I know what I am good at, and what I need to do to improve
Setting clear boundaries and consequences for my behaviour, good and bad
I am responsible for:
Thinking
Make artworks that show I understand the skills that the teacher has taught me
Use suggestions and ideas from the teacher and other students to improve my art
Managing myself
Know that I am always capable of learning and have an ‘I can do this’ attitude
Be a self-motivated learner, work without the teacher having to remind me
Manage my art assignments by working well in class and meeting deadlines
Set high work standards for myself, always work to the best of my ability
Act in a reliable way, be trustworthy and set a good standard for my behaviour
Relating to others
Interact positively and politely with other students and the teacher
Be aware of my own words and actions and how they affect others
Listen and cooperate with my teacher’s instructions
Be open and willing to learn new skills, even when tasks seem hard to begin with
Cooperate positively and politely with relief teachers in the art room
Participating and contributing
Contribute positively to my learning environment, learn and help others learn
Contribute to the quality of my classroom environment by keeping equipment, tables and sinks clean, putting rubbish in the bin, caring for my own and other students artwork, and reporting damage to the teacher
Why study the visual arts?
The world is saturated by visual imagery.
The visual arts provide forms of communication that inform where we have come from and how this has shaped our current place in the world.
By engaging in the visual arts, You assimilate, create, produce, and respond critically through visual communication (in all its forms) and contribute to the process of social and cultural development.
Visual communication is one of the most essential ways of communicating and interpreting our identity as individuals, groups, or communities and how we interact with each other, the group, or the community and world we live in.
Visual arts connect mind, heart, body, and spirit as you learn to express their thoughts, feelings, ideas, and actions in the development and creation of visual art works.
Through studying and making art works, you respond to and make sense of yourself and your community, society, and the world in new and different ways.
You become reflective a thinker within the creative process, able to formulate problems and apply inquiry to generate new knowledge and or understandings.
Through the process of generation, critique, synthesis, and production, you also develop skills transferable to other areas of your lives and knowledge that informs critical analysis and invention.
Through applied research and practice within the visual arts, you investigate and challenge established ways of art making in New Zealand and/or internationally and generate new responses and processes and gain confidence in questioning and research skills and in an ability to synthesise complex and diverse information.
Learners in the visual arts become productive contributors to and informed commentators within local, national, and global communities particularly through exhibitions of their work, collaborations, and interactions with audiences. They understand, interpret, and communicate the meanings and values of visual symbols from Aotearoa, the Pacific, and beyond.
Investigate Artist models and research the conventions they use within their works that will work for your Kaupapa. Explore techniques and styles used by artist models to create works.
Collect and gather a wide range of visual resources from photographs, found images and drawings from life. Use these to make artworks that explore the artist models and your Kaupapa
Your work will be shared with each other informally in class as well as formally in board shows and online exhibitions
Digital Device success
no apps are Paid for ones - only install free versions
A lot of work we do is photographed and uploaded to digital platforms. To make this easier there are some apps that you should install on your phone. Make sure all of these are logged in with your school email
Google Classroom
Google Drive
Padlet - see below for important instructions for logging on with your school details
ADOBE fresco [iPhone and windows- FREE VERSION unless you have an adobe subscription already. Please install on your BYOD and Mobile]
ADOBE Lightroom
Go Art [Iphone]
Grid# [iPhone]/Art tools [iPhone] or Grid Maker for Drawing [android]
Padlet/folio Links 2024