{"id":668,"date":"2017-06-06T01:22:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T01:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/academicguide-year10-12\/?page_id=668"},"modified":"2019-06-18T02:58:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T02:58:57","slug":"visual-arts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/academicguide-year11-12\/hsc\/hsc-subjects\/visual-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Arts 2 unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Course Description<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Preliminary Course<\/strong>\u00a0[Board Developed] 2 units<br \/>\n<strong>HSC Course<\/strong>\u00a0[Board Developed] 2 units<\/p>\n<p>Exclusions:\u00a0Exclusions between Content Endorsed Courses and the Board Developed Visual Arts course:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ceramics \u2013 Visual Arts HSC Ceramics Body of Work<\/li>\n<li>Photography \u2013 Visual Arts HSC Photography Body of Work<\/li>\n<li>Visual Design \u2013 Products developed cannot be used as a Body of Work in Visual Arts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Visual Arts involves students in the practices of art making, art criticism and art history. Students develop their own artworks, culminating in a \u2018Body of Work\u2019 in the HSC course. This reflects the students\u2019 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.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:150}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">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. \u202fStudents 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.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:150}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Main Topics Covered<\/h2>\n<table style=\"width: 1000px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>PRELIMINARY COURSE (Y11)<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>HSC COURSE (Y12)<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Preliminary Course learning opportunities focus on:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">The nature of practice in art making, art criticism and art history investigated through case studies<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">The role and function of artists\u2019 artwork, the world and audiences in the art world<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">The frames and how students might develop their own informed points of view<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">How students may develop meaning and focus and interest in their work<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Building understandings over time through various investigations and working in different forms<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">HSC Course learning opportunities focus on:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">How students may develop their own informed points of view in increasingly more independent ways using the frames<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">How students may develop their own practice of art making, art criticism, and art history applied to selected areas of interest<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">How students may learn about the relationships between the artist, artwork, the world and the audience within the art world<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">How students may further develop meaning and focus in their work<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Particular Course Requirements:<\/strong><\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 1000px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>PRELIMINARY COURSE (Y11)<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>HSC COURSE (Y12)<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;\">\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Artworks in at least 2 forms and use of a process diary<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">A broad investigation of ideas in art criticism and art history<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;\">\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">The development of a body of work and use of a process diary<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">A minimum of 5 Case Studies (4-10 hours each)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Deeper and more complex investigations of ideas in art criticism and art<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>Assessment \u2013 HSC course only<\/h2>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; 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