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

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 (3) ACAVAM119

discussing and documenting their choices of representation to strengthen meaning and viewpoints in their artwork

Elaboration (3) | ACAVAM119 | Content Descriptions | Years 7 and 8 | Visual Arts | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (3) ACAVAM120

developing and refining practical and technical skills when designing, fabricating and constructing visual arts images and objects, employing safe and sustainable practices

Elaboration (3) | ACAVAM120 | 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

Elaboration (3) ACAVAM122

exploring social relationships as subject matter within artworks and how the display of these artworks reflects, challenges or extends the relationships between the artist and the audience

Elaboration (3) | ACAVAM122 | Content Descriptions | Years 7 and 8 | Visual Arts | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (3) ACAVAR123

Considering viewpoints – cultures: For example – How do artists from different cultures represent the concepts of Place/Country? Compare examples of street art found in Australia to street art from another country.

Elaboration (3) | ACAVAR123 | Content Descriptions | Years 7 and 8 | Visual Arts | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (3) ACAVAR124

Considering viewpoints – philosophies and ideologies: For example – Do the artist’s past experiences influence the work? Why do you prefer this form?

Elaboration (3) | ACAVAR124 | Content Descriptions | Years 7 and 8 | Visual Arts | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

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 | ACAVAR123 | Content Descriptions | Years 7 and 8 | Visual Arts | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (4) ACAVAR124

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

Elaboration (4) | ACAVAR124 | 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