Through active participation in art appreciation, criticism, and making, students will develop new and different ways to enhance their power of imagination, creative thinking, and presentation skills. Students can use visual arts to express themes and topics related to themselves, their surroundings, and the works of other artists.

Students will learn to use visual language, different visual arts forms, and a variety of materials and techniques for visual arts making. They will develop their skills in using verbal language to describe, analyse, communicate, and carry out dialogue as well as develop a positive attitude for continual exploration and experimentation through the process of making, illustrating, and presenting their artistic ideas.

As students learn to understand works of visual arts, they acquire the abilities to give critical, informed, and intelligent responses based on a well-explored background of information about the artwork, the artist, and just as importantly, with reference to their own experience, training, culture and personal judgment.

Students will learn to understand the meaning and value of works of visual arts in their own and other contexts including the art historical, personal, social, cultural, ideological, and political.

Visual arts knowledge involves the study of visual language, knowledge related to visual arts forms, media, skills and materials, and contextual knowledge of the arts and aesthetics. Visual arts knowledge helps students observe and appreciate the natural and man-made environments, as well as artworks of the past and present. Students can also apply visual arts knowledge to art-making activities in order to enhance the expressiveness of their visual arts works.

Students express their feelings and convey their ideas by manipulating visual arts media to create visual images and objects. Students explore and develop ideas through a variety of approaches, as well as select and handle visual arts forms, media, and forms of presentation appropriate for specific themes. They also learn to manipulate the psychological effects or symbolic meanings derived from various visual elements and principles of organisation so as to transform a medium into a piece of aesthetically appealing visual arts work.

Through observation and direct experience, students describe, feel, analyse, interpret and judge the value of visual arts works, thus developing their personal aesthetic values. In the course of appreciating and criticizing artwork, students study the visual arts in social, cultural, and historical contexts. They pursue understandings of the relationship among the visual arts, societies, and cultures. As students are exposed to a wide range of visual arts works, they also become familiar with the characteristics, ways of communication, and making processes of different media.