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• Visual Arts: Levels 5 and 6 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 6, students explain how ideas are expressed in artworks they make and view. They demonstrate the use of different techniques and processes in planning and making artworks .They use visual conventions and visual arts practices to express ideas, themes and concepts in their artworks.

  Level description | The Arts | Visual Arts | Levels 5 and 6

• VCAVAR032

  Identify and describe how ideas are expressed in artworks by comparing artworks from different contemporary, historical and cultural contexts, including artworks by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

  Elaborations

  • making judgments about the practices of artists, what and why they design and create, using visual conventions
  • comparing artworks from different cultures and identifying the ideas expressed by the artist, for example, when comparing paintings from India and Australia, what do they recognise, what is new, what are the different meanings the artists are expressing?
  • explaining the artistic vision of artists from different contexts, for example, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, particularly referencing the meaning the artworks convey
  • analysing how symbolic meanings or metaphors are constructed in their own artworks and artworks of others
  • expressing an opinion about the way numerous artists communicate their viewpoints through their artwork
  • describing their ideas about an issue in an artwork they have created and describe their art making practice, for example, did it make them think more seriously about the issue? Did the rest of the class understand their message?

  VCAVAR032 | The Arts | Visual Arts | Levels 5 and 6 | Respond and Interpret

• VCAVAP031

  Create and display artwork considering how ideas can be expressed to an audience

  Elaborations

  • identifying a range of audience interpretations of the same artwork
  • analysing and interpreting an exhibition of artworks, investigating the intentions of the artist, for example, what did the artist want the audience to see and understand?
  • recognising and evaluating how culture, gender, age, time and place impact on how an audience reads an artwork.
  • reflecting on how effectively their ideas or feelings have been expressed in their own artworks, and that of others
  • presenting their artworks using digital technologies, for example, creating an online exhibition of their class art works

  VCAVAP031 | The Arts | Visual Arts | Levels 5 and 6 | Present and Perform

• Visual Arts: Levels 5 and 6 description

  In Levels 5 and 6, students explore how and why artists, craftspeople and designers realise their ideas through different visual forms, practices and processes. They develop conceptual and expressive skills.

  As they make and respond to visual artworks, students explore a diversity of ideas, concepts...

  Level description | The Arts | Visual Arts

• VCAVAV030

  Select and apply visual conventions, materials, techniques, technologies and processes specific to different art forms when making artworks

  Elaborations

  • practising art making skills using a range of materials and technologies
  • using an enquiry as a basis for their own art making and use of materials and techniques, for example, in sculpture , how does the choice of material enhance the audience’s understanding of the artist’s intention?
  • making informed choices about using elements to express a concept or theme
  • explaining influences of other artists on their own art making

  VCAVAV030 | The Arts | Visual Arts | Levels 5 and 6 | Visual Arts Practices