Visual Arts / Y11-12
Key Information.
Nature of Subject:
Nature of Subject:
Units: 2 Units
Category: Board Developed Course (ATAR)
HSC Exam:
Practical Component: Body of Work – 50%
Written Exam – 50%
Section 1: Three short answer responses to source material.
Section 2: One Essay Response
Body of Work:
The body of work involves a sustained investigation of a concept through an artmaking practice such as painting, drawing, photomedia, time-based-forms (filmmaking), printmaking, graphic design, sculpture, documented forms, ceramics.
engaging in the creative process through critical reflection and reflective evaluation through the use of the Visual Arts Process Diary.
Recommendation
- Visual Arts involves the integration of the making of artworks and the historical and critical investigation of artist, artworks, the world and audience.
- Initiative, critical thinking and independence will assist in self-managing the making of the body of work.
- Engagement and commitment to developing skills in analysis and interpretive extended response writing.
Prerequisites
- None.
- Every student has studied Visual arts in Year 7 and 8.
- The syllabus content areas of Practice, the Frames, and the Conceptual Framework continue into the HSC Course.
Course Overview:
Year 11
Macro Micro: 2D forms (Drawing,Painting, Photography, Graphic Design, Printmaking)
Artificial Worlds and Realities: Manipulation of Scale as a structural device
Program 2: Contradiction: 3D-4D Forms (Sculpture, Filmmaking, Installation)
Transforming found objects and everyday materials
Associated historical investigations of artists and their world.Year 12
The Making of a Body of Work (student selected Media Area of specialisation
Process documentation the use of a Visual Arts Process Diary.
Art Historical and Critical Study: Five Case Studies: in-depth investigations into artists and their world through Practice, the Conceptual Framework and The Frames such as:
Artist as Rebel: Manet, Ai Wei Wei
Contemporary Practice: Jonathan Jones, Fiona Hall
Less is More: Minimalist Aesthetic in Art: Architecture and abstract expressionism
Contemporary Chinese Art: Xu Zhen and the MadeIn Company
Bling: Jeff Koons, Rococo Art, Palace of Versailles and Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia.
Where to from here?
- Talk to the Head of Department or faculty teacher
- Listen to the Head of Departments presentation at the subject selection session
- Talk to present students in the subject
- Talk to your parents
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Commerce
Computing Technology
Elective Geography (Global Studies)
History - Elective
Languages - French
Graphics Technology
Industrial Technology – Metal
Industrial Technology – Software Engineering
Industrial Technology – Timber
Languages - Japanese
Languages - Latin
Languages - Mandarin
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