Visual Arts 2 unit

Category A: Visual Arts

Course Description

Preliminary Course [Board Developed] 2 units
HSC Course [Board Developed] 2 units

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

Ceramics – Visual Arts HSC Ceramics Body of Work
Photography – Visual Arts HSC Photography Body of Work
Visual Design – Products developed cannot be used as a Body of Work in Visual Arts

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

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.  Students do not need to have completed Visual Art courses in Stage 4/5 as a prerequisite to select Visual Arts in Year 11 and 12. The Preliminary course is broad, while the HSC course provides for deeper, increasingly more independent investigations.

Main Topics Covered

PRELIMINARY COURSE (Y11)

HSC COURSE (Y12)

Preliminary Course learning opportunities focus on:

The nature of practice in art making, art criticism and art history investigated through case studies
The role and function of artists’ artwork, the world and audiences in the art world
The frames 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 informed points of view in increasingly more independent ways using the frames
How students may develop their own practice of art making, art criticism, and art history applied to selected areas of interest
How students may learn about the relationships between the artist, artwork, the world and the audience within the art world
How students may further develop meaning and focus in their work

Particular Course Requirements:

PRELIMINARY COURSE (Y11)	HSC COURSE (Y12)
Artworks in at least 2 forms and use of a process diary A broad investigation of ideas in art criticism and art history	The development of a body of work and use of a process diary A minimum of 5 Case Studies (4-10 hours each) Deeper and more complex investigations of ideas in art criticism and art

Assessment – HSC course only

EXTERNAL ASSESSMENT	WEIGHTING	INTERNAL ASSESSMENT	WEIGHTING
A 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

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