AC9AVA10D01 Year 9 The Arts

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 The Arts provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

experiment with visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials to refine skills and develop personal expression

Elaborations

• 1 experimenting with the material properties of a medium or form and investigating/exploring, in depth, the technical processes associated with that form in order to develop a comprehensive understanding of the ways that they can use it to represent their ideas in their own visual arts practice
• 2 interrogating multiple ways of approaching an activity; for example, using a diverse range of media to express different interpretations of the one topic, such as producing several sketches of the one object using different media with each one exploring a different emotion
• 3 investigating a diverse selection of artists through their sketchbooks to uncover their practices, and find connections between their processes and the development of their personal expression
• 4 developing an “inspiration” journal of collections from everyday life, such as photographs, found objects, experiments with media, thoughts and ideas, and using questions based on Viewpoints to interrogate their “inspiration” journal and begin identifying their own personal style; for example, "What am I drawn to, and why is this important to me?"
• 5 documenting and evaluating their investigations of visual art processes, visual conventions and materials in a diary, portfolio or digital journal; for example, annotating the processes used and using Viewpoints to develop questions to deepen their understanding of the concepts explored or processes used, such as "Have I pushed and explored this idea, medium or technique as far as I can?", "What is the problem, and how can I find multiple possible solutions?", "What happens when I …?”, “What did I learn from this …?”, “How can it inform my future art-making?"
• 6 drawing lines, shapes and arrows drawn over photocopies of artworks and using a code to demonstrate their understanding of the way the artist has composed the artwork to communicate meaning; for example, using lines to trace over an artwork to show composition techniques, such as rule of thirds, creating movement using diagonal and or curved lines, repetition and pattern, or the use of visual hierarchy to indicate how the viewer’s eye follows the layout of a designed product

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