Visual Arts
200 hours
Visual Arts plays a significant role within the curriculum through providing learning opportunities designed to encourage students to understand the visual arts, including the different kinds of creative works they, and others make. It encourages independent and creative thinking within the intellectual and practical realms. Visual Arts also plays an important role in the social, cultural and spiritual lives of students. It offers a wide range of opportunities for students to develop their own interests, to be self-motivated and active learners who can take responsibility for and continue their own learning in school and post-school settings.
Visual Arts fosters interest and enjoyment in the making and studying of art. Visual Arts builds understanding of the role of art, in all forms of media, in contemporary and historical cultures and visual worlds. In our society many kinds of knowledge are increasingly managed through imagery and visual codes and much of students’ knowledge is acquired in this way. Visual Arts empowers students to engage in visual forms of communication.
At ASG, Visual Arts encourages students to become informed, interested and active citizens as participants in, and consumers of, the visual arts and contemporary culture. It encourages the creative and confident use of technologies including traditional (drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking and ceramics) and contemporary art forms (Information and Communication Technologies and Digital Media).
In Years 9 and 10 students will have the opportunity to take part in some or all of the following activities:
Experimenting with the expressive qualities of painting, drawing and mixed media to create artworks on canvas and paper.
Exploring various sculpture techniques such as modelling, carving and assemblage to create figurative and abstract sculptures.
Investigating various printmaking techniques particularly colour reduction relief printing and photographic silk screen printing to create artworks.
Exploring digital art through the use of a variety of software including Flash and Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud.
Investigate various clay hand building techniques such as pinch pot, coil, slab and potter’s wheel to create ceramic forms.
Experiment with various ceramic decorative techniques such as glaze, underglaze, grafitto, slip trailer and stencilling
Engage in the critical and historical study of a variety of artists and artworks to support their artmaking.