AC9AVA10E01 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.

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

• 1 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
• 2 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
• 3 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
• 4 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
• 5 selecting different critical viewpoints to develop explanations about artists’ approaches and works at different times and in different contexts
• 6 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

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