Visual Arts
Visual Arts involves students in art making, art criticism and art history. Students develop their own art works, culminating in a ‘body of work’ in the HSC course. Students critically and historically investigate art works, critics, historians and artists from Australia as well as those from other cultures, traditions and times. The Preliminary course is broadly focused, while the HSC course provides for deeper and more complex 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
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Topics Covered
Preliminary Course
• The nature of practice in art making, art criticism and art history through different investigations
• The role and function of artists, art works, the world and audiences in the art world
• 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
Topics Covered
HSC Course
• How students may develop their practice in art making, art criticism, and art history
• 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 art world and apply these to their own investigations
• How students may further develop meaning and focus in their work