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Visual arts / Year 7 and 8

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Curriculum content descriptions

Present artwork demonstrating consideration of how the artwork is displayed to enhance the artist’s intention to an audience (ACAVAM122)

Elaborations
  • working individually and/or collaboratively to apply ethical, environmental and sustainable choices when developing and displaying a collection of visual artwork
  • justifying their choices for display or presentation of ideas in artworks or designs appropriate for a particular audience, for example, mounted and framed exhibition, a website, or as a children’s book
  • researching ideas for display or presentation, reflecting on different times, places and cultures, and considering how these can be options for display of their own artworks
  • exploring social relationships as subject matter within artworks and how the display of these artworks reflects, challenges or extends the relationships between the artist and the audience
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
ScOT terms

Artistic purpose,  Art exhibitions,  Exhibits

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