Learning Area Leader: Mr Morrison
Career Paths / Future Directions
Painter, Printmaker, Sculptor, Advertising, Architecture, Art Historian, Product Design, Fashion Design, Furniture Design, Gallery Curator or guide, Gallery or museum educator, Industrial Design, Jeweller, Media, Film, Television, Set Design, Production Design, Ceramicist, Museums, Photography, Teaching/Lecturing, Web Design, Illustration
Unit 1 – Interpreting Artworks and Exploring the Creative Practice (Code: ARTV11)
Description
In Unit 1 students focus on the making of art and examine how artists communicate ideas and meaning in artworks. Students explore the practices of artists who have been inspired by ideas relating to personal identity. Students learn about the components of the Creative Practice and explore areas of personal interest to develop a series of visual responses.
Outcomes
Students should be able to discuss the practices of three artists and apply the Structural Lens and the Personal Lens to analyse and interpret one artwork by each artist. They should be able to use the Creative Practice to develop and make visual responses informed by their exploration of personal interests and ideas and be able to document and evaluate the components of the Creative Practice used to make personal visual responses.
Assessment
· Outcome 1: Extended Written Response
· Outcome 2: Folio of artwork
· Outcome 3: Documentation of the Creative Practice
Unit 2 – Interpreting Artworks and Developing the Creative Practice (Code: ARTV22)
Description
In Unit 2 students explore the collaborative practices of artists and use the Creative Practice to make and present artworks. Students examine the importance of the social and cultural contexts of artworks and analyse the varying social functions that art can serve. They also research historical and contemporary artworks and explore diverse and alternative approaches to making and presenting artworks.
Outcomes
Students should be able to develop personal ideas using research that examines one artwork and the practice of an artist and produce at least one finished artwork using the Creative Practice. They should be able to apply and explore ideas and an area of personal interest using the Creative Practice.
Assessment
· Outcome 1: Extended Written Response
· Outcome 2: Folio of artwork including at least one finished artwork
· Outcome 3: Documentation of the Creative Practice
Unit 3 – Investigation, Ideas, Artworks and the Creative Practice (Code: ARTV33)
Description
In this unit students explore ideas and experiment with materials, techniques and processes using the Creative Practice. Students also investigate the issues that may arise from the artworks they view and discuss. Students apply the Interpretive Lenses to researched artworks and in their reflective analysis and evaluation of their use of the Creative Practice. They use critical and creative thinking skills to explore and develop ideas, and experiment with materials, techniques and processes.
Outcomes
· Conceptual and practical investigation including at least one finished artwork, using selected Analytical Frameworks to reflect upon and annotate their work.
· 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.
Assessment
· Outcome 1: Folio of artwork including at least one finished artwork
· Outcome 2: Folio of artwork
Unit 4 – Interpreting, Resolving and Presenting Artworks and the Creative Practice (Code: ARTV44)
Description
In Unit 4 students continue to develop their art practice and their Body of Work. They use the Interpretive Lenses to analyse, compare and interpret the meanings and messages of artworks produced by the artists they study.
Students continue to build upon the ideas begun in Unit 3 and present a critique of their use of the Creative Practice. They reflect on the feedback from their critique to further refine and resolve a Body of Work that demonstrates their use of the Creative Practice and the realisation of their personal ideas.
Students use the Interpretive Lenses to analyse and interpret the meanings and messages of artworks created by the artists they study and to investigate the practices used to create them.
Outcomes
· Students should be able to document their use of Creative Practice and present a critique to inform the refinement and resolution of a Body of Work.
· Students should be able to use the Creative Practice to resolve and present a Body of Work. Students should also be able to compare the practices of historical and contemporary artists and use the Interpretive Lenses to analyse and interpret the meanings and messages of selected artworks.
Unit 3 & 4 Assessment
· Outcome 1: Critique
· Outcome 2: Folio of artwork
· Outcome 3: Extended Written Response