AC9AVA8D02 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.

reflect on the ways that they and other artists respond to influences to inform choices they make in their own visual arts practice

Elaborations

• 1 developing understanding of the ways that visual conventions can be used to communicate feelings and emotions in artworks; for example, exploring multiple small compositional sketches to identify and reflect on how they can change the emotions communicated in a simple still life by making changes in composition, colour and tone
• 2 using teacher and student set goals to reflect on and practise specific skills over time; for example, practising observational drawing skills by completing one drawing a week of increasingly complex compositions and using Viewpoints to develop questions reflecting on aims, strengths and areas for improvement in order to set future goals
• 3 exploring and reflecting on the way a particular artist/group of artists use materials, techniques and processes in their work to inform their own investigations; for example, manipulating, reflecting and trialling to explore potential for artworks, such as exploring different techniques in using and mixing paint, reflecting on and trialling the effects and outcomes of using different conventional and non-conventional brushes
• 4 considering sustainable practices when exploring properties of materials in order to understand and reflect on how they can be used to create artworks; for example, considering when it is appropriate to fire ceramics, taking into consideration the longevity of the finished product, or exploring the creation of dyes and paints made from natural materials, such as plants or fruits
• 5 reflecting on the work of others and their own explorations when developing an understanding of visual conventions and how they might be manipulated to communicate meaning in artworks; for example, learning about colour theory and applying this to develop compositions that explore harmonious or contrasting colour palettes
• 6 building on their understanding of composition to explore multiple ways to represent space and depth in an artwork; for example, experimenting with proportion and scale, positive and negative space in 3D work, or exploring the use of linear, aerial and atmospheric perspective, and reflecting on how they may apply this understanding to create the illusion of space

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