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Visual Arts Level Description

In Levels 1 and 2, students develop their awareness of how and why artists, craftspeople and designers express their ideas through different art forms. They enhance their perception skills as they examine and express familiar and new objects and events in their lives. They explore how and why artworks are created. They develop and apply safe and sustainable practices when experimenting with different materials, techniques and technologies

As they make and respond to visual artworks, students explore meaning, forms and styles in different social, cultural and historical contexts. They experience the role of artist and audience in their visual arts making.

Visual Arts Content Descriptions

Explore and Express Ideas

  1. Explore ideas, experiences, observations and imagination and express them through subject matter in visual artworks they create (VCAVAE021)

Visual Arts Practices

  1. Experiment with different materials, techniques and processes to make artworks in a range of art forms (VCAVAV022)

Present and Perform

  1. Create and display artworks to express ideas to an audience (VCAVAP023)

Respond and Interpret

  1. Respond to visual artworks, including artworks by local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, by describing subject matter and ideas (VCAVAR024)

Visual Arts Achievement Standard

By the end of Level 2, students make artworks using different materials, techniques and processes to express their ideas, observations and imagination.

Students describe artworks they make and view, including where and why artworks are made and viewed.

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