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• VCAVAR039

  Identify and connect specific features of visual artworks from different cultures, historical and contemporary times, including artworks by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

  Elaborations

  • comparing and contrasting different visual images and interpretations of place and country, starting with the local Koorie people, from a range of viewpoints and contexts
  • researching, analysing and examining the way an artist’s cultural experiences have influenced the expression of ideas and concepts in their artworks
  • recognising how different factors contribute to the ways in which visual artworks are judged to be meaningful by an audience
  • analysing how artists have expressed historical and social value and influences in their artworks
  • analysing how visual arts processes and technologies shape the practices of art and craft

  VCAVAR039 | The Arts | Visual Arts | Levels 7 and 8 | Respond and Interpret

• VCAVAV036

  Develop skills in planning and designing art works and documenting artistic practice

  Elaborations

  • reflecting, modifying and evaluating their artwork through consistent critical assessment.
  • discussing how artists gain inspiration and develop individual styles in their artworks, for example, one artist’s influence on the work of another
  • extending technical competence when using selected techniques, for example, registration in printmaking, brush techniques in painting, digital editing, shaping 3D forms
  • researching and investigating art forms to find information about visual arts skills, use of materials, traditional and contemporary styles, display options, and sources for ideas when developing their own artwork

  VCAVAV036 | The Arts | Visual Arts | Levels 7 and 8 | Visual Arts Practices

• Visual Arts: Levels 7 and 8 description

  In Levels 7 and 8, students make and respond to visual artworks. They design and create visual expressions of selected themes and concepts through a variety of visual arts forms and styles. Students develop an informed opinion about artworks based on their research of current and past artists....

  Level description | The Arts | Visual Arts

• VCAVAV035

  Experiment with materials, techniques, technologies and processes in a range of art forms to express ideas, concepts and themes in artworks

  Elaborations

  • imagining and refining their visual and spatial expressions of the world, combining a variety of materials, techniques and technologies
  • problem-solving with increasing confidence to expand their repertoire of visual arts practices and skills, for example, designing a mural for a local space
  • exploring artists use of materials and techniques to create artworks for public spaces, for example, researching the context of time and place, culture and ideology as an influence on the look and meaning of art in public spaces
  • developing and refining technical skills when designing and making visual arts images and objects, employing safe and sustainable practices
  • annotating their own and others’ art making by keeping a written or digital journal, or portfolio

  VCAVAV035 | The Arts | Visual Arts | Levels 7 and 8 | Visual Arts Practices

• VCAVAE034

  Explore how artists use materials, techniques, technologies and processes to realise their intentions in artworks

  Elaborations

  • investigating the viewpoints of several artists and how they express a theme, concept or subject matter in different contexts and using different styles with different materials and technologies
  • exploring how artists have used different materials and symbols to express cultural identity for example, identifying implied meaning through the symbols in the artwork, such as a universal symbol that reflects contemporary youth culture, or the symbols of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
  • selecting contextual information about artists, artworks and audiences as inspiration for their artworks
  • discussing and documenting their choices of expression to strengthen meaning and viewpoints in their artwork
  • researching artworks that provide different ideas and concepts based on ideological views and institutional theories of design and art practice, for example, the Bauhaus movement, Chinese social realist painting, Greek classical sculpture
  • applying critical theories to the analysis and interpretation of artworks, for example, identifying explicit and implicit meanings in artworks

  VCAVAE034 | The Arts | Visual Arts | Levels 7 and 8 | Explore and Express Ideas

• VCAVAP037

  Create and display artworks, describing how ideas are expressed to an audience

  Elaborations

  • apply ethical, environmental and sustainable choices when displaying a collection of visual artwork
  • 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
  • researching ideas for display or presentation, reflecting on different times, places and cultures, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
  • 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

  VCAVAP037 | The Arts | Visual Arts | Levels 7 and 8 | Present and Perform

• VCAVAE033

  Explore visual arts practices as inspiration to explore and develop themes, concepts or ideas in artworks

  Elaborations

  • combining and adapting materials, techniques, technologies and art making processes to explore ideas
  • discussing how artists have applied materials and techniques to express emotions and consider this in their own art practice, for example, why and how artworks make them feel emotional, and can they apply a similar technique to their artworks?
  • observing and investigating how artists select and apply different visual arts techniques to express themes, concepts and ideas and considering how they could use these in their own art making
  • combining, adapting and manipulating images and objects from several sources to develop a theme in their artworks
  • exploring why artists have use specific stylistic qualities in their art works, for example, – why an artist use a particular style of expression? What other forms and styles suit the message the artist is conveying?

  VCAVAE033 | The Arts | Visual Arts | Levels 7 and 8 | Explore and Express Ideas