Visual Arts

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 practice, and 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.

It would be prudent of students to acknowledge that this course requires strong organisational skills and a significant commitment of time in the making of artworks.

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’ 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 and focus and interest in their work

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

HSC Course learning opportunities focus on:

• 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, and audience within the art world.

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