Year 10
Visual communication is one of the most essential ways of communicating and interpreting our identity as individuals, groups, or communities and how we interact with each other, the group, or the community and world we live in.
Broadening your horizons
Ø Developing styles and ideas in art.
Ø Half year option
Assessments
Drawing – L1 AS 90914, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, Art Knowledge
KEY COMPETENCIES in ART - Participating
Managing self
Using language, symbols, and texts
Students will keep a class work book in this performance-based course.
During this year student are given the opportunity to develop confidence and skills to enable them to complete a Level 1 Drawing standard: AS 90914 and to compete successfully in Level 1 Visual art NCEA the following year.
Observational drawing.
Controlled colour painting. Imaginative colour work. Experience with a wide range of media and techniques- Water colour, acrylic, charcoal, ink wash.
Printmaking: wood cut, chine colle, hand coloured prints. Stencil: hand cut. Student choice of image
Painting: mixed media.
Clay sculpture: student choise
Unit One: DI, UC ; Elements of Art through printmaking and drawing, Portraiture.
- participating and contributing.
Unit Two: CI; Demonstrate rudimentary knowledge of Lettering styles. Using symbols and text to express the concept of a poem. -Blake
- using text and symbols
Unit Three: PK; Demonstrate the rudiments of relief sculpture. Students will enjoy a clay sculptural experience and follow the process to a firing stage, or other glazing level as approved by the course tutor
- managing self.
Unit Four: Demonstrate practical knowledge of stencil and monoprinting. Demonstrate personal aesthetic composition skills through a series of art works and design compositions
- relating to others.
Unit Five: DI; Demonstrate practical knowledge of landscape painting. Demonstrate understanding of NZ qualities in McCahon & Cotton, grid landscape, aerial perspective in Leenards.
– managing self.
Unit Six; CI, PK; Show control with colour modulation. Paint control should be developed to a sufficient level to demonstrate roundness of form through tone and colour modulation. Forest landscape.
- thinking.
Unit Seven: UC, PK: Demonstrate practical application of Maori art. Present an art work as part of a group. Matariki exhibition.
Students will deepen their understanding of Maori art re imagining or interpreting a legend
- relating to others.
NZ. AS 90914
– thinking, participating and contributing.