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Aims Visual Arts

In addition to the overarching aims of the Australian Curriculum: The Arts, visual arts knowledge, understanding and skills ensure that, individually and collaboratively, students develop: conceptual and perceptual ideas and representations through design …

Aims | Visual Arts | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

Rationale Visual Arts

This rationale complements and extends the rationale for The Arts learning area. Visual arts includes the fields of art, craft and design. Learning in and through these fields, students create visual representations that communicate, challenge and express …

Rationale | Visual Arts | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

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

Example of knowledge and skills Visual Arts

In this band students are introduced to the ways that ideas and intentions are communicated in and through visual arts. They develop knowledge, understanding and skills through visual arts practices focusing on: Representation Subject matter personal …

Example of knowledge and skills | Visual Arts | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

Structure Visual Arts

Learning in Visual Arts Learning in Visual Arts involves students making and responding to artworks, drawing on the world as a source of ideas. Students engage with the knowledge of visual arts, develop skills, techniques and processes, and use materials …

Structure | Visual Arts | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

ACAVAM128

Plan and design artworks that represent artistic intention

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ACAVAM106

Explore ideas, experiences, observations and imagination to create visual artworks and design, including considering ideas in artworks by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists

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Elaboration (2) ACAVAR109

identifying how design elements, such as line, shape, colour or texture, are used in their artworks and in the artwork of others

Elaboration (7) ACAVAM111

applying art and design techniques effectively and safely, such as modelling and joining clay, marbling on paper, designing and printing a pattern

Elaboration ACAVAR123

visiting and critiquing a physical or virtual exhibition of art, craft or design, and reviewing how artists have used visual conventions in their artworks

Elaboration (4) ACAVAR124

analysing how visual arts practices and processes and use of available technologies shape the practices of art, craft and design

Elaboration (2) ACAVAM127

using innovative thinking as they explore the capabilities of digital and virtual technologies to resolve design and planning problems

Elaboration (3) ACAVAM128

applying their understanding of traditional art, craft and design practices to plan the use of materials, technologies and processes in a contemporary context

Elaboration (5) ACAVAM111

manipulating and experimenting with combinations of various materials and technologies to create predictable effects, for example, using crosshatching to create tone or design elements to focus attention in a composition

Elaboration ACAVAR117

making discerning judgements about how they work as an artist, and what and why they design and create, using appropriate visual conventions, for example, a sculpture that expresses movement

Elaboration ACAVAM128

analysing and documenting the practices of selected visual artists and designers, including their use of materials, technologies, techniques and processes, when developing their art and design intentions for representation

Elaboration (4) ACAVAM106

identifying and using visual conventions in their artworks after investigating different art, craft and design styles from other cultures and times, for example, Expressionism, Fauvism, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, and Asia

Elaboration (1) ACAVAM114

exploring cross-media effects and characteristics of representation when making artworks inspired by observation or imagination, for example, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art from the local community, graffiti art, graphic design, or manga a …

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 (2) ACAVAM108

Considering viewpoints – meanings and interpretations: For example – What did this artwork or design make you think about and why? What figures/shapes can you see in the artwork? How has the artist treated the figures/shapes to convey their idea or m …

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