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Visual arts / Year 7 and 8
Curriculum content descriptions
Identify and connect specific features and purposes of visual artworks from contemporary and past times to explore viewpoints and enrich their art-making, starting with Australian artworks including those of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples (ACAVAR124)
Elaborations
- comparing and contrasting different representations and interpretations of Country/Place from a range of viewpoints and contexts, for example, researching and comparing the representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and colonists in artworks from and about 1788
- respecting cultural practices and sensitivities as they research, analyse and examine the way an artist’s cultural experiences have influenced the representation of their artworks
- recognising how different factors contribute to the ways in which visual artworks are judged to be meaningful by an audience
- Considering viewpoints – philosophies and ideologies: For example – Do the artist’s past experiences influence the work? Why do you prefer this form?
- analysing how visual arts practices and processes and use of available technologies shape the practices of art, craft and design
General capabilities
Cross-curriculum priorities
ScOT terms
Social settings (Narratives), Settings (Narratives), Artistic purpose, Aboriginal art, Australian art, Torres Strait Islander art, Visual arts