Visual Art
Visual art at the Bowen State High School is broken down into two sections – Making and Responding. Making
Making in Visual Art involves students using processes, techniques, knowledge and skills to make artworks. Students learn through actions such as experimenting, conceptualising, reflecting, performing, communicating and evaluating. They draw on the practices of their own and other cultures and times. The ongoing process of refining and resolving their work is essential to learning in Visual Art as much as is creating a finished artistic work. Responding
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Responding in Visual Art involves students, as both artists and audiences, exploring, responding to, analysing, interpreting and critically evaluating artworks they experience. Students learn to understand, appreciate and critique the arts through the critical and contextual study of artworks and by making their own artworks. Learning through making is interrelated with and dependent upon responding. Students learn by reflecting on their making and critically responding to the making of others.
Link to Year 11/12 subject
Visual Art (General): Recommended LOA for Year 10, ‘B’ in
Art for Senior Art.
| Topics of study | Assessment | Career pathways |
Focuses on two dimensional techniques and various ways of viewing and expressing reality. For instance, students will explore: - drawing
- painting
- pattern
- stylisation
- abstraction
- appropriation.
Furthermore, students will investigate three dimensional techniques such as: - clay construction
- wire construction
- ephemera
- wearable art.
| Students will complete a variety of assessment items to gather information on student's progress.
These include: Investigations: - Students explore a stimulus by experimenting with the techniques of key artists.
Projects and Products: - Students create artworks in response to a stimulus
Artwork Analysis: - Students describe, analyse, interpret and judge artworks.
| This is invaluable preparation for many vocations including: - architecture
- teaching
- engineering
- curating
- town planning
- marketing
- advertising
- fashion design
- film and television
- industrial design
- retail display
- illustrating
- arts administration
- interior design
- practicing artist.
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Assessment: General subject- Visual Art
Year 11 formative assessment
Unit 1 | Unit 2 |
Formative internal
assessment 1 (IA1): |
A-E
| Formative internal
assessment 3 (IA3): |
A-E
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Formative internal
assessment 2 (IA2): |
A-E
| Formative internal
assessment (IA4): | A-E |
Year
12 summative assessment
Unit 3 | Unit 4 |
Summative internal
assessment 1 (IA1): |
A-E
| Summative internal
assessment 3 (IA3): |
A-E
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Summative internal
assessment 2 (IA2): |
A-E
| Summative External assessment
(IA4): | A-E |
Applied subject- Visual Arts in Practice
Visual Arts in Practice is a four-unit course of study.
Units 1 and 2 of the course are designed to allow students to begin their engagement with the course content, developing the knowledge, understandings and skills of the subject. Course content, learning experiences and assessment increase in complexity across the four units as students develop greater independence as learners.
Units 3 and 4 consolidate student learning and is used to determine the student's exit result.
There are two types of assessment techniques in Visual Arts in Practice:
Project: This technique gives students authentic opportunities to respond to a single task in a module of work. The student response consists of a product component and a written / spoken / multimodal component. At least one project arises from community connections.
Product: This technique assesses the production of artworks and is the outcome of applying a range of cognitive, technical, physical and creative/expressive skills.
Link to year 11/12 subject
Visual Arts in Practice (Applied): recommend completion of Year 9 or 10 Art or an interest in Art.
Visual Arts in Practice is a composite class and works on a Year A and Year B rotation. Year 11 assessment is formative whereas Year 12 assessment is summative.
Year A
Unit 1 | Unit 2 |
Module 1: The Tropical North (Part
A) |
A-E
| Module 3: Cultural Identities (Part
A) |
A-E
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Module 2: The Tropical North (Part
B) |
A-E
| Module 4: Cultural Identities (Part
B) | A-E |
Year B
Unit 3 | Unit 4 |
Module 5: Tropical Tourists (Part A) |
A-E
| Module 7: Self Construction (Part A) |
A-E
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Module 6: Tropical Tourists (Part B) |
A-E
| Module 8: Self Construction (Part B) | A-E |