Visual Arts / Y9-10
Key Information.
Nature of Subject:
Nature of Subject:
Major Work:
Each semester based program involves the making of a body of work.
Why study this subject?
Course Overview:
Year 9
Practical:
Drawing: observational and expressive
Painting: oil painting, acrylic painting in the subject matter of Still Life and Portraiture
Artist Workshops
Sculpture: construction and assemblage
Conceptual investigation of relics and
obsolete technologies.Historical Interpretations:
Traditional Art practices: classicism and the Renaissance
Modernism: Artists as Rebels and the ‘ism’ that define modern artmaking
Artist studies from Picasso to Pollock
Excursion: AGNSW – Archibald PrizeYear 10
Practical:
Painting: Landscape, acrylic painting on canvas
Excursion to location to source subject matter
Interiors
Printmaking: Subject matter based on contemporary issuesHistorical Interpretations:
Traditions of Landscape
Australian landscape
Artist and Protest: Social Issues and associated artists, Bansky , Ai Wei Wei
Where to from here?
- Talk to the Head of Department or Head of Curriculum
- Read the subject selection session presentation
- Talk to present students in the subject
- Talk to your parents
Electives offered.
Agriculture
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
Music
Photographic and Digital Media
PASS
Visual Arts
Drama
Design & Technology
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