Teaching literacy in Visual Arts: Stage 4

Unit: Lifting the mask

Part A: Syllabus links

The syllabus links refer to the outcomes and learn to/learn about statements in the Visual Arts Years 7-10 Syllabus June 2003. This syllabus will be implemented with Year 7 and Year 9 students in 2005 and Year 8 and Year 10 students in 2006. Teachers should continue to make assessments and report against the existing outcomes in the current syllabus.

The outcomes selected are considered a focus from the Stage 4 outcomes identified in the new syllabus. It is understood that in most units of work all the outcomes would be addressed, however the selected outcomes provide teachers and students with a manageable assessment task.

Outcome 4.1 A student uses a range of strategies to explore different artmaking conventions and procedures to make artworks.

Students learn to:

investigate performance art, digital (new media) art and ceramics and approximate the conventions and activities of the field to make art.

Students learn about:

the three forms as comprising conventions, traditions and activities shaped by different values and beliefs
artists working individually and in collaboration with others to make artworks.

Outcome 4.2 A student explores the function of and relationships between artist-artwork-world-audience.

Students learn to:

adapt and develop strategies and procedures to investigate the world to make artworks
record investigations and information in their diary.

Students learn about:

the world as a source of ideas and concepts to make art
how artists develop their intentions.

Outcome 4.3 A student makes artworks that involve some understanding of the frames.

Students learn to:

recognise that making artworks involves their own interpretive activity, employing different points of view
use their imagination and social perspectives of interest to them in the development of ideas to represent the world.

Students learn about:

the nature of the four frames and how they might be employed to represent different intentions.

Outcome 4.4 A student recognises and uses aspects of the world as a source of ideas, concepts and subject matter in the visual arts.

Students learn to:

adapt and develop strategies and procedures to investigate the world to make artworks
record investigations and information in their diary.

Students learn about:

the world as a source of ideas and concepts to make art.

Outcome 4.5 A student investigates ways to develop meaning in their artworks.

Students learn to:

reflect on and interpret actions and choices
develop artistic intentions arising from relationships between artist – artwork – audience – world
modify, interpret and appropriate images from a range of sources in developing and representing ideas.

Students learn about:

how artists develop their intentions.

Outcome 4.9 A student begins to acknowledge that art can be interpreted from different points of view.

Students learn to:

identify how artworks, particularly time-based and digital, can be explained and interpreted as intertextual
apply different points of view as represented by the frames to artworks.

Students learn about:

belief, value and meaning about artworks using the postmodern frame
how the world can be interpreted in art and ways in which ideas are represented.

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