Years 7 and 8 Visual Arts

In Visual Arts, students: build on their awareness of how and why artists, craftspeople and designers realise their ideas through different visual representations, practices, processes and viewpoints extend their thinking, understanding and use of …

Years 7 and 8 | Visual Arts | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

ACAVAM121

Practise techniques and processes to enhance representation of ideas in their art-making

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACAVAM121 | Content Descriptions | Years 7 and 8 | Visual Arts | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACAVAM122

researching ideas for display or presentation, reflecting on different times, places and cultures, and considering how these can be options for display of their own artworks

Elaboration (2) | ACAVAM122 | Content Descriptions | Years 7 and 8 | Visual Arts | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard Visual Arts Years 7 and 8

By the end of Year 8, students identify and analyse how other artists use visual conventions and viewpoints to communicate ideas and apply this knowledge in their art making. They explain how an artwork is displayed to enhance its meaning. They evaluate …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Years 7 and 8 | Visual Arts | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (3) ACAVAM118

observing how artists select and apply different visual arts techniques to represent themes, concepts and ideas and considering how they could use these in their own art making

Elaboration (3) | ACAVAM118 | Content Descriptions | Years 7 and 8 | Visual Arts | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACAVAM122

justifying their choices for display or presentation of ideas in artworks or designs appropriate for a particular audience, for example, mounted and framed exhibition, a website, or as a children’s book

Elaboration (1) | ACAVAM122 | Content Descriptions | Years 7 and 8 | Visual Arts | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (4) ACAVAM119

researching artworks that provide different ideas and concepts based on ideological views and institutional theories of design and art practice, for example, the Bauhaus, Chinese social realist painting, Greek classical sculpture

Elaboration (4) | ACAVAM119 | Content Descriptions | Years 7 and 8 | Visual Arts | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (3) ACAVAM121

researching widely to find the most appropriate sources of information about visual arts skills, use of materials, traditional and contemporary styles, display options, and sources for ideas when developing their own artwork

Elaboration (3) | ACAVAM121 | Content Descriptions | Years 7 and 8 | Visual Arts | The Arts | F-10 curriculum