Career Paths / Future Directions
Painter, Printmaker, Sculptor, Advertising, Architecture, Art Historian, Designing, Fashion, Gallery Curator, Industrial Design, Jeweller, Media, Film, Television, Set Design, Production Design, Ceramicist, Museums, Photography, Teaching/Lecturing, Web Design, Illustrator
Description
This unit focuses on artworks as objects and examines how the formal qualities such as art elements, materials and techniques communicate meaning. Students examine artists in different societies, cultures and historical periods. By applying the Structural and Personal Frameworks students explore the works of artists to interpret meanings and messages of artworks. In their practical work students explore the characteristics and qualities of materials as they generate their own personal work and folio.
Outcomes
Students should be able to analyse and interpret a variety of artworks using the Structural Framework and the Personal Framework. Students should be able to present visual creative responses that demonstrate personal interests through the trialling of technique, materials and processes in response to a set criteria. Students will study at least three artists and at least one artwork from each.
Assessment
May include a range of the following:
Outcome 1: Extended Written Response
Outcome 2: Folio of artwork including at least 1 finished artwork
Description
This unit focuses on the importance of the cultural context of Art. The focus is on how the world and art has changed over time. Students learn how to apply the Cultural and Contemporary Frameworks. The continuation of the practical folio focuses on exploration of technique and materials through the development of personal cultural contexts and ideas. Students study at least one artwork from at least four artists.
Outcomes
Students should be able to analyse, interpret, compare and contrast artworks from different cultures using the Cultural Framework and Contemporary Framework. Students should be able reflect on their own art-making and demonstrate technical and artistic development in their folio that includes at least one finished work.
Assessment
May include a range of the following:
Outcome 1: Extended Written Response
Outcome 2: Folio of artwork including at least 1 finished artwork
Examination
Description
In this unit, students study artists who have produced works before 1990 and artists who have produced works since 1990. Students use all the Analytical Frameworks for interpreting and analysing the meaning of artworks. These Analytical Frameworks help students to appreciate how an artwork may contain different aspects and layers of meaning and diverse interpretations.
Outcomes
Students should be able to use the Analytical Frameworks to analyse and interpret artworks produced before 1990 and artworks produced since 1990, and compare and contrast the meanings and messages of artworks produced before 1990 with those of artworks produced since 1990.
Students explore personal ideas and concepts through a folio of work.
Conceptual and practical investigation including at least one finished artwork, using selected Analytical Frameworks to reflect upon and annotate their work.
Assessment
Outcome 1: Theory SAC comparing artists pre-1990 and post-1990 10%
Outcome 2: Folio of artwork including at least 1 finished artwork S/N
Description
In Unit 4 students continue to develop personal points of view and informed opinions about art ideas or issues and support them with evidence. They build their learning around the discussion and debate of broad themes or issues. They discuss and debate how art may affect and change the way people think. They examine and analyse their own viewpoints and those of others through commentaries. From this research students choose an art issue to explore.
In practical work students continue to build upon ideas and concepts begun in Unit 3. They focus on the development of a body of work that demonstrates creativity and imagination, the evolution of ideas and the realisation of appropriate concepts, knowledge and skills. At the end of this unit, students present a body of work accompanied by documentation of thinking and working practices.
Outcomes
Students should be able to discuss and debate an art issue using selected artist/s works as context, and present their informed opinion with reference to artworks and with the support of selected commentaries and relevant aspects of the Analytical Frameworks.
Students should have progressively communicated ideas, directions and/or personal concepts in a body of work that includes at least one finished artwork, having used selected Analytical Frameworks to underpin reflections on their art making.
Assessment
Outcome 1: Art analysis and art issues report 10%
Outcome 2: Folio of artwork including at least 1 finished artwork 50%
Examination 30%