Students, Parents/Carers Handbook

Art/Tech - Art Creative Practice

Subject Name: Art

 

Unit of Study: Art Creative Practice 

 

Brief Description: In this unit of study, students explore how artists are influenced by personal and cultural context, and how they express these ideas through artworks. Students work through the Creative Practice, where they develop, experiment, refine and resolve individual ideas to communicate ideas and meaning. They investigate a range of materials, techniques, and creative principles to enhance their visual language through artworks.

 

Scaffolding Learning

At the conclusion of this unit of study students will have: 

 

An understanding of key knowledge

  • Explore the practices of artists from different times and cultures
  • Analyse how artists convey ideas and meaning in their artworks
  • Develop technical skills in a range of drawing materials and techniques
  • Develop visual language skills to communicate ideas and meaning in artworks

Attained these key skills 

  • Analyse the practices of artists, their artworks and how they communicate ideas and meaning.
  • Plan and design individual artworks.
  • Use materials and techniques to create visual language in artworks.
  • Create and present artworks, and describe how ideas are expressed to an audience.

 

Demonstrated the Victorian curriculum standards and capabilities

  • Explore the visual arts practices and styles as inspiration to develop a personal style, explore, express ideas, concepts and themes in art works (VCAVAE040)
  • Explore how artists manipulate materials, techniques, technologies and processes to develop and express their intentions in art works (VCAVAE041)
  • Select and manipulate materials, techniques, and technologies and processes in a range of art forms to express ideas, concepts and themes (VCAVAV042)
  • Conceptualise, plan and design artworks that express ideas, concepts and artistic intentions (VCAVAV043)
  • Create, present, analyse and evaluate displays of artwork considering how ideas can be conveyed to an audience (VCAVAP044) 
  • Analyse and interpret artworks to explore the different forms of expression, intentions and viewpoints of artists and how they are viewed by audiences (VCAVAR045)
  • Analyse, interpret and evaluate a range of visual artworks from different cultures, historical and contemporary contexts to explore differing viewpoints (VCAVAR046)

Assessment Tasks

 

Students will be required to complete the following assessment tasks:

  • Annotated Presentation - Artwork Analysis
  • Journal and Finished Artwork
  • Semester Exam

Additional learning opportunities

  • National Gallery of Victoria excursion

Resources

  • A4 sketchbook (30 pages)
  • 2B pencil
  • Eraser
  • Watercolour pencils

Pathways

This unit of study could provide students with the following pathway.