AC9AVA10D02 Year 9 The Arts

AC9AVA10D02 – Year 9 The Arts: Visual Arts

Strand

Developing practices and skills

Substrand

Visual 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.

Content Descriptor

reflect on the way they and other visual artists respond to influences to inspire, develop and resolve choices they make in their own visual arts practice

Elaborations

• investigating and reflecting on the role and influence of their own culture, family or personal experiences when developing ideas for artworks
• investigating a diverse range of visual artists; for example, artists who live and work in a different place, such as a country in the Asia region, and reflecting on accounts of them discussing influences on their work and practices, in order to develop an understanding of the many factors that can shape their own visual arts practice
• analysing and reflecting on the ways that artists have structured their artworks to represent ideas; for example, using Viewpoints to generate questions to facilitate their understanding of the artists’ intentions
• reflecting on, evaluating and resolving their choices for representing their ideas as their work progresses; for example, through informal discussions or reviews, or in written/oral/multimedia evaluations, such as journals
• exploring current issues that are of importance to them, such as global or local issues, as a starting point for generating and reflecting on ideas for artworks that explore themes/concepts such as sustainable futures, wellbeing and emotional health, or human rights issues
• investigating the ways that artists use their visual arts practice to explore, examine, resolve or represent personal experiences and expressions as a starting point to understand how they can use their own visual arts practice to explore and respectfully/safely represent personal issues, such as self-awareness, emotional awareness and personal wellbeing

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASARTVISY910

Year 9 The Arts Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 10, students analyse how and why visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials are manipulated in artworks they create and/or experience. They evaluate how and why artists from across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts use visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials in their visual arts practice and/or artworks to represent and/or challenge ideas, perspectives and/or meaning. They evaluate how visual arts are used to celebrate and challenge perspectives of Australian identity. Students draw on inspiration from multiple sources to generate and develop ideas for artworks. They document and reflect on their own visual arts practice. They use knowledge of visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials to create artworks that represent and/or communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning. They curate and present exhibitions of their own and or/others’ artworks and visual arts practice to engage audiences.