11 VCE ART (11AAR1)

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Curriculum Overview

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The Course

Unit 1:

Students will learn how to analyse and interpret artworks through different perspectives, understanding how the artist has used personal inspiration and the art elements and principles to make their artwork. Students will also explore personal ideas through trialling a number of techniques, materials and artistic processes to create at least one finished artwork.

Unit 2:

Students will further expand their application of analysis and interpretation by learning how an artist’s culture may have influenced their artwork. By the end of the unit, students will be able to compare and contrast artworks from different cultures using the art elements and principles and by finding common meanings and messages in artists’ work. Students will further develop their technical art-making skills by exploring one or more selected media, materials or techniques to complete one finished piece of artwork. Practical work – 2 classes a week Theory work – 1 class a week

Unit 1 Topics

• Watercolour painting
• Pen and Ink Drawing
• Art elements and principles
• Personal influences when making art

Unit 2 Topics

• Block Print Printmaking
• Etching
• Airbrushing
• Digital Photography
• Looking at how culture influences art-making practice
• The Cultural Framework: comparing and contrasting artworks from different cultures and how cultural influences Art.
• The Contemporary Framework: defining what is contemporary art, and what are contemporary techniques used in modern art.

Learning and Assessment Activities

Folio based assessment is used for the following activities:

• The use of the Design process
• Trialling of materials and techniques
• Annotation
• Final artworks
• Reflection tasks Visual Analysis of an artwork using the Structural, the Personal, the Cultural, and the Contemporary Frameworks. 
• Written essay about an artist and how their personal inspiration helped to develop their artworks.
• Written exam

These units lead to

University study of Art, leading to employment in creative industries like fashion, design, curator, art historian, art educator, or working as a professional artist.

Special considerations

Before undertaking VCE Art, you should have satisfactorily completed a Year 10 Visual Art subject and demonstrated sufficient competency in all skill areas. You must undertake Unit 3 prior to undertaking Unit 4.

Costs involved

$100 per unit ($200 per year)

Excursion each semester (approx. $20)

Materials required

• Textbook
• folio

For further information see...

Mr Hasley

Study design link

http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Pages/vce/studies/art/artindex.aspx