AC9AVA8D01 Year 7 The Arts

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 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 develop skills

Elaborations

• 1 selecting and appropriately acknowledging the use of found images when making and responding to artworks; for example, when choosing source material for collage or deliberate appropriation, such as images that represent identity and personality in a self-portrait
• 2 investigating the choices that other artists have made when structuring their representation of ideas to assist in structuring their own ideas; for example, using sketches, studies, maquettes, annotated digital images or journal entries of other artists
• 3 developing an understanding of how and why artists choose to use encryption in their artworks; for example, in analog artworks using lemon juice, symbolism or ciphers, layering of content, symbols and visual elements, and/or in digital images through the use of hex encryption software for the purposes of copyrighting works, and including information in works
• 4 evaluating feedback from teachers and peers; for example, feedback offered in discussions and reviews of their artworks and planning in progress; then documenting their subsequent decisions and responses in written, oral or multimedia, physical or digital journals or diaries using visual arts terminology
• 5 developing an awareness of cultural and artistic conventions for representing subjects through a contextual study of artists and their artworks, taking care to observe protocols for using First Nations Australian cultural property in the arts
• 6 reflecting on learning and evaluating/resolving choices to represent their ideas as the ideas for the artwork progresses, using informal discussions, process annotations, reviews or written/oral/multimedia evaluations in physical or digital journals or visual diaries
• 7 exploring the ways that a range of artists use materials, visual conventions and visual art processes to communicate their concepts; for example, investigating how artists use choices of materials and visual arts processes when working on a similar concept and how this impacts the viewer response, or experimenting with these approaches to consider how they might approach the same concept
• 8 observing the different ways that artists respond to sensory stimuli, such as emotions, feelings or material properties, to generate ideas and directions for their own works; for example, being guided by the tactile qualities of a material as inspiration for practical exploration

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