2 units for each of Preliminary and HSC       

Board Developed Course

Exclusions between Content Endorsed Courses and the Board Developed Visual Arts course:

Ceramics  – Visual Arts HSC Body of Work containing ceramics

Furnishing – the Furnishing Integrated project(s) cannot be used as all or part of a Body of Work

Photography – Visual Arts HSC Body of Work containing photography

Visual Design – Products developed cannot be used as all or part of a Body of Work in Visual Arts

Course Description:

Visual Arts involves students in the practices of artmaking, art criticism and art history.  Students develop their own artworks, culminating in a ‘body of work’ in the HSC course that reflects students’ knowledge and understanding about the practice and which demonstrates their ability to resolve a conceptually strong work. Students critically and historically investigate artworks, critics, historians and artists from Australia as well as those from other cultures, traditions and times.

The Preliminary course is broad, while the HSC course provides for deeper, increasingly more independent investigations.

While the course builds on Visual Arts courses in Stages 4 and 5, it also caters for students with more limited experience in Visual Arts.

Main Topics Covered:

Preliminary Course learning opportunities focus on:

·         The nature of practice in artmaking, art criticism and art history through different investigations

·         The role and function of artists, artworks, the world and audiences in the artworld

·         The different ways the visual arts may be interpreted and how students might develop their own informed points of view

·         How students may develop meaning and focus and interest in their work

·         Building understandings over time through various investigations and working in different forms.

HSC Course learning opportunities focus on:

·         How students may develop their own practice of artmaking, art criticism, and art history, applied to selected areas of interest

·         How students may develop their own informed points of view in increasingly independent ways and use different interpretive frameworks in their investigations

·         How students may learn about the relationships between artists, artworks, the world and audiences within the artworld

·         How students may further develop meaning and focus in their work.

Particular Course Requirements:

Preliminary Course

·         Artworks in at least two expressive forms and use of a process diary

·         a broad investigation of ideas in art criticism and art history

HSC Course

·         development of a body of work and use of a process diary

·         a minimum of five Case Studies (4–10 hours each)

·         deeper and more complex investigations of ideas in art criticism and art history.

Assessment: HSC course only

External Assessment

Weighting

Internal Assessment

Weighting

A 1½ hour written paper

Submission of a body of work

50

50

Development of the body of work

Art criticism and art history

50

50

100

100