AC9AVA6E01 Years 5 to 6 The Arts

Content descriptor explore ways that visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials are combined to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning in visual arts across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts

Elaborations

• • Elaboration investigating how a diverse range of Australian artists have expressed historical, social and environmental concerns over time; for example, artists who have migrated to Australia at different times who represent their experiences through their artworks and visual arts practice, using Viewpoints to develop questions such as, “What does this artwork tell us about the impact of this person/culture on society?”, “What can I learn about this person’s experiences, or about what it means to be Australian?”
• • Elaboration identifying ways that artworks by different artists can present multiple perspectives of the same event, discussing how these works can assist the development of social awareness; for example, accessing and comparing responses to artworks that depict the colonisation of Australia by the British from the perspective of a First Nations Australian person, a person with links to the British colonists, or a person with no cultural links to either of these groups
• • Elaboration exploring a range of Australian and international artworks, such as artworks from countries or regions in Asia, that communicate a topic or issue the class is learning about in another subject, and individually expressing their own views of the issue in a series of sequential visual panels without any text
• • Elaboration using Viewpoints to develop questions to examine, compare and contrast what they notice in an artwork; for example, as a class, critically navigating multiple perspectives of the same artwork and questioning why they see these works so differently
• • Elaboration examining audio descriptions as an accessible way for people with impaired vision to enjoy visual arts; for example, listening to a series of descriptions of artworks by Australian artists in Australian institutions, selecting an artwork that they are interested in and creating an audio description of their own