COURSE:  VISUAL ARTS

Leader of Learning: Mrs Leanne Broadley

2 units for each of Year 11 and HSC / Board Developed Course

EXCLUSIONS: Projects developed for assessment in one subject are not to be used either in full or in part for assessment in any other subject.

Course Description:

Visual Arts involves students in artmaking, art criticism and art history.  Students develop their own artmaking practice by creating a ‘body of work’ in the HSC course.  Students critically and historically investigate artworks, critics, historians and artists from Australia as well as those from other cultures, traditions and times.

The Year 11 course is broadly focused, while the HSC course provides for deeper and more complex investigations.  

Any student may undertake the Stage 6 Visual Arts course.  They need not have studied Visual Arts in Years 9 and 10.  Students undertaking Stage 6 Visual Arts must have an interest and a willingness to commit to the creative processes and interest in the art world.

Course Content:

Year 11 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, artwork, the world and audiences in the art world

• the different ways that visual arts may be interpreted and how students might develop their own informed points of view

• how students may develop and layer meaning in their artworks

• building understandings over time through various investigations and working in different forms

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 art world and apply these to their own investigations

• how students express their artistic intentions by further developing and layering meaning in a body of work.

Particular Course Requirements:

Year 11 Course:

• artworks in at least two expressive forms (i.e. documented forms, a collection of works, drawing, painting, photomedia, printmaking, textiles and fibre, graphic design, designed objects, sculpture, ceramics, time-based forms) and use of a Visual Arts Process Diary

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

HSC Course:

• development of a body of work and use of a Visual Arts Process Diary.  The body of work will be marked externally.

• a minimum of five Case Studies (4–10 hours each)

• deeper and more complex investigations in art making, art criticism and art history.  Students complete a written paper on art criticism and art history marked externally.

In both courses, half the time is spent on art making and the other half on art criticism and art history.

Cost:  

• Year 11: $165.00

• Year 12: $135.00

Students are also responsible for any additional specialist materials for their Body of Work.