Subject Code: 2VAA20 Length of course: Full year Credit points and TAS Status: 20 Credit TAS Recommended Background: Satisfactory completion of Stage 1 Art A or Stage 1 Art B.
Precluded combinations with current MHS SACE subjects: Visual Arts - Design (10) and Visual Arts - Design (20)
Course Outline:
Students research, analyse, explore and experiment with media and technique, and resolve and produce practical work.
They use visual thinking and investigation to develop ideas and concepts, refine technical skills, and produce imaginative solutions.
Students learn to communicate personal ideas, beliefs, values, thoughts, feelings, concepts and opinions, and provide observations of their lived or imagined experiences in visual form.
Topics Included:
Students should provide evidence of their learning through six assessments, including the external assessment component.
Students produce:
one folio
two practical works, including a practitioner’s statement for both practical works
one visual study.
Folio Students produce one folio that documents their visual learning, in support of their two works of art. The folio should include evidence of visual learning, such as:
starting points for visual thinking
the application of creative thinking and/or problem solving skills
sources of inspiration and influence
the analysis and comparison of works of art
the development of alternative ideas or concepts
the evaluation and review of ideas and progress
annotated comments to clarify thinking
explorations and experiments with style, media, materials, technologies, and processes with annotated observations and appraisals
the practice and application of skills, which may include repetition and analysis
the refinement of ideas leading up to decisions about the final resolved product and justification for those decisions
photographic evidence of the stages of production and the resolved works of art
conclusions that challenge or support artistic conventions.
Practical All practicals are resolved from visual thinking and learning documented in the folio. Students produce two practicals, which must be resolved works or one body of resolved work. The practical assessment consists of two parts:
art practical work
practitioner’s statement.
Visual Study The visual study is an exploration of, and/or experimentation with, one or more styles, ideas, concepts, media, materials, methods, techniques, technologies, or processes. Students base their exploration and/or experimentation on critical analysis of the work of other practitioners, individual research, and the development of visual thinking and/or technical skills. They present the findings of their visual study as well as their conclusions, insights, and personal opinions about aesthetics.
Assessment:
Folio 40%
Practical 30%
Visual Study 30%
Additional Costs:
Large complex pieces or expensive materials may incur a cost and will be negotiated with parents. Costs for excursions and workshops, that include entry fees and transport
Length of course: Full year
Credit points and TAS Status: 20 Credit TAS
Recommended Background: Satisfactory completion of Stage 1 Art A or Stage 1 Art B.
Precluded combinations with current MHS SACE subjects:
Visual Arts - Design (10) and Visual Arts - Design (20)
Course Outline:
Students research, analyse, explore and experiment with media and technique, and resolve and produce practical work.
They use visual thinking and investigation to develop ideas and concepts, refine technical skills, and produce imaginative solutions.
Students learn to communicate personal ideas, beliefs, values, thoughts, feelings, concepts and opinions, and provide observations of their lived or imagined experiences in visual form.
Topics Included:
Students should provide evidence of their learning through six assessments, including the external assessment component.
Students produce:
Folio
Students produce one folio that documents their visual learning, in support of their two works of art. The folio should include evidence of visual learning, such as:
Practical
All practicals are resolved from visual thinking and learning documented in the folio. Students produce two practicals, which must be resolved works or one body of resolved work. The practical assessment consists of two parts:
Visual Study
The visual study is an exploration of, and/or experimentation with, one or more styles, ideas, concepts, media, materials, methods, techniques, technologies, or processes. Students base their exploration and/or experimentation on critical analysis of the work of other practitioners, individual research, and the development of visual thinking and/or technical skills. They present the findings of their visual study as well as their conclusions, insights, and personal opinions about aesthetics.
Assessment:
Additional Costs:
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