Title: Year 11 Visual Art
Pre-requisites: The students should have the ability to convey and communicate ideas and feelings about experiences in life and the things that they dream or imagine.  When they make art they not only produce interesting images and objects they also develop their thinking and reasoning skills and their ability to think creatively when confronted by a problem or a challenge.  Visual Art in the senior years will require some out of class time.  Our Art Studio is open most lunch hours and after-school to allow all Visual Art students the opportunity to fine tune their skills and work on major works.  Students will also be given many opportunities to attend gallery exhibitions both in and out of school time.  A small cost would be involved.
Coordinator: Ms Sue Lonsdale

Visual Art is a powerful and persuasive means of communication.  It is the means of personal expression by which students make visible ideas, thoughts, feelings and observations of their work through display and exhibition of made images and objects.

Senior Visual Art at Aspley is an Authority Subject.  Visual Art encourages students to:

• Investigate and understand art and relate it to their social, community, cultural, economic, political, environmental and vocational contexts
• Pursue an active aesthetic literacy to meet their own ever changing, ever widening personal and social needs
• Explore, manipulate and exploit with confidence the potential of materials, techniques, processes and technologies
• Make and appraise artworks, including their own, with originality, confidence and sensitivity to forms
• Develop social and personal skills that promote confidence, group co-operation, responsibility and an informed lifelong engagement and enjoyment of the visual arts

Topics

The course of study in Senior Visual Art consists of work that comprise concepts, focuses and media areas.

• Visual Studies - Year 11 which is formative
• Major Studies - Year 12 which is summative

The foundation year, Visual Studies, will cover the following media areas, drawing, painting, ceramics, printmaking.

Four major studies of the student’s own choice will be studied in Year 12 from the four media areas.  This extension work will provide the fullest and latest information on student achievement.

The Visual Diary is an ongoing compilation of relevant notes, research, illustrations and documentations which are completed in student's own time and some class time.  This book will become an information resource and a means of accumulating developmental ideas leading to major pieces of work in Year 12.

• Semester One Identity - 31.5hrs (13 weeks), Environment - 31.5hrs (13 weeks)
• Semester Two Environment, Technology - 31.5hrs (13 weeks)

More Information

For more information on Senior Visual Arts, click here.  

Assessment

Year 11 Formative Assessment is criteria-based to be used by students/peers/parents and teachers at anytime to provide feedback, to monitor learning progress and identify specific areas needing modification.  This will be selectively used for determining exit levels of achievement in unforeseen circumstances e.g. extended illness.

Assignment guidelines

Please refer to the Assignment Guidelines on how to set out bibliographies and references.  

Resources

• 1 x USB, 1 x A4 Visual diary, 2 x 2B pencils, 1 x 8pkt of 'A2' paint (or equivalent brand), warm and cool, primary colours and black and white, 1 x size 6 flat paintbrush, 1 x size 4 round paintbrush, 1 eraser and sharpener

Related Links

Appropriation

• Wikipedia - Appropriation
• Mona Lisa Appropriations
• The Mona Lisa, Which We Do Not See

Sign

• Barbara Kruger
• Art Galleries Schubert - Jeffrey Smart

Collection

• Global Gallery
• Art Facts - Pinaree Sanpitak