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Visual Arts / Year 7 and 8 / Exploring and responding

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investigate ways that visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials are manipulated to represent ideas, perspectives and/or meaning in artworks created across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts (AC9AVA8E01)

Elaborations
  • investigating arts works by First Nations Australian artist/s that cross over multiple artforms, either through direct engagement with First Nations Australian artists or using online resources created or co-created by First Nations Australians, analysing how the arts forms come together; for example, a drama presentation with visual elements such as backdrops, costumes and props, or music such as songs with lyrics that reference environmental concerns or historical events (protest songs) and are presented with projections of visual images
  • researching the ways that artists from different times and places have represented a particular subject or theme, such as portraiture, the natural world or social events, using a range of styles and conventions
  • analysing the ways that artists represent subject matter and ideas in their artworks when developing ideas for their own representations
  • creating written accounts, such as catalogue entries, interview transcripts or reviews, that discuss or explain how artists have shown their ideas in their art-making
  • investigating and trialling techniques and visual arts processes used by artists, thinking about whether these processes and technologies have changed over time, and how they can have an impact on art-making
  • exploring the ways that artists are inspired and influenced by the practice of artists from other countries or cultures they have relationships with; for example, the reciprocal influence and impact between Australian and Asian artists and their practices
General capabilities
  • Intercultural understanding Intercultural Understanding
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Regional art,  Artistic purpose,  Composition (Visual arts),  Art materials,  Visual arts,  Australian art,  Artists,  Culture,  Social settings (Narratives),  Settings (Narratives),  Art movements

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Margaret Preston: 'Flying over the Shoalhaven', 1942

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