Year 11 Visual Art

Aims

•  Develop appreciation and understanding of a range of artistic styles, traditions and contexts

•  Explore, via experimentation, a variety of ways to communicate ideas, meaning and emotion

•  Recognise, build upon and refine areas of personal strength and interest

•  Develop ways to question and interpret elements of visual culture

•  Use traditional and new technologies to solve problems and arrive at innovative solutions

Content

Visual Arts Context - 

Understanding how art is made, viewed, and valued:  The role of art within communities. Making links between our own work and that of others in historical and contemporary contexts

Visual Arts Processes – 

Exploring how art practices operate. Using conventions and technologies to create artwork. Using creative and critical thinking in the production of artwork. Creating artwork as a means of self-expression

Visual Arts Practice – 

Applying visual arts contexts and processes to make artwork. Understanding of the role of art and art-making through research, authentic experience (exhibition)

Learning Gained -

View New Zealand and international art practice. Development of individual ideas for practical work. Critical thinking and visual problem solving

Assessment

In class checkpoints

This course may include 1 NCEA standard, either an internal or an external. To be confirmed at the beginning of the 2024 school year

This subject has links with

English, Technology, Textiles, Media Studies, Design, Photography

Prior knowledge required

An interest in visual arts and / or visual culture in any context

Next step

NCEA Level 2 Painting; NCEA Level 2 Photography