AC9AVA10E01 Year 9 The Arts

AC9AVA10E01 – Year 9 The Arts: Visual Arts

Strand

Exploring and responding

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

investigate the ways that artists across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts develop personal expression in their visual arts practice to represent, communicate and/or challenge ideas, perspectives and/or meaning

Elaborations

• analysing a selection of artworks that represent a point of view on the same or similar theme, story, historical event, place, time, use of a technique or materials, noting the differences and similarities in the range of artworks and how an artist’s lived experience and cultural forces can have an impact on perspectives found in their work
• investigating how linear timelines, in contrast to circular timelines, can shift meaning in art with reference to First Nations Australian ways of knowing, being and doing
• researching, analysing and evaluating the ways that artists from different times and places represent subject matter, themes or concepts, such as portraiture, freedom and social change or identity, using a range of styles and conventions
• creating extended written, oral or multimedia accounts, such as essays, pod/vodcast, debate or reviews, that discuss and explain how artists have represented their ideas in their artworks and artist practices
• selecting different critical viewpoints to develop explanations about artists’ approaches and works at different times and in different contexts
• exploring the development of a visual arts form over time, considering the impact of globalisation, cultural practices, and new discoveries in materials and technologies; for example, wood block printing or photography

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.