Year 10 Subjects – Visual Art - Art
Level: Year 10
Subject Name: Visual Art - Art
Prerequisites: Nil
Assumed knowledge: Nil
Course Summary
Year 10 Art is a semester program. Students will work through practical and theory units to develop their Art knowledge, skills and techniques. Through research, idea development and practical experimentation, students created resolved works in drawing, felting, painting and sculpture. Students learnt how to use sophisticated visual arts language when writing their artist statements and analysing artworks from historical Art movements.
Course content
| Felting: Landscapes | Explore colour, layering, tone and line using wool to recreate an existing artwork. This is a practical unit exploring felting techniques. |
| Charcoal Drawing: Still Life | Develop skills in observation and charcoal to draw a still life composition. Students focus on contrast, tone and form in these works. |
| Sculpture: Caly Busts | Exploring facial proportions and expression, students create a unique clay bust sculpture. They are introduced to the ceramic works of Aṉangu artists from Ernabella Arts to influence their own pattern making, textures and use of coloured glazes on the body of the sculpture. Students present their work with a Practitioner’s Statement. |
| Acrylic Painting: Mona Lisa | Research the works of multiple artists to recreate the Mona Lisa using acrylic paint. Students present their work with a folio of idea development and media exploration towards their final work of art. |
| Visual Study: Historical Art Movements | Research the social and cultural background of a range of Art movements throughout history. Analyse one artwork per Art movement using strong Arts language that references the Art Elements and Principles. |
Assessments
- Folio work (research, idea generation, explore and develop, refinement)
- Practical assessment for major works of art
- Theory-based analysis tasks