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Introduction

In the Australian Curriculum, The Arts is a learning area that draws together related but distinct art forms. While these art forms have close relationships and are often used in interrelated ways, each involves different approaches to arts practices …

Introduction | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

Example of knowledge and skills Visual Arts

In this band students are introduced to the ways that ideas and intentions are communicated in and through visual arts. They develop knowledge, understanding and skills through visual arts practices focusing on: Representation Subject matter personal …

Example of knowledge and skills | Visual Arts | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard Visual Arts Years 5 and 6

By the end of Year 6, students explain how ideas are represented in artworks they make and view. They describe the influences of artworks and practices from different cultures, times and places on their art making. Students use visual conventions and …

Achievement Standard Visual Arts Years 7 and 8

By the end of Year 8, students identify and analyse how other artists use visual conventions and viewpoints to communicate ideas and apply this knowledge in their art making. They explain how an artwork is displayed to enhance its meaning. They evaluate …

Elaboration (2) ACAVAM110

exploring ways to represent their ideas using visual conventions from different historical, social or cultural contexts

Elaboration (4) ACAVAM110

identifying and explaining choices in art making, including forms, styles and visual conventions in their artworks, and influences of other artists on their artworks

Elaboration (3) ACAVAM112

comparing the visual conventions in artworks made for specific purposes, for example, how the artist represents an idea to show the audience a particular viewpoint

Elaboration (4) ACAVAM114

making aesthetic choices about representation and being able to explain their choices describing the visual conventions and processes

Elaboration ACAVAM122

working individually and/or collaboratively to apply ethical, environmental and sustainable choices when developing and displaying a collection of visual artwork

Elaboration ACAVAR123

visiting and critiquing a physical or virtual exhibition of art, craft or design, and reviewing how artists have used visual conventions in their artworks

Elaboration (2) ACAVAR124

recognising how different factors contribute to the ways in which visual artworks are judged to be meaningful by an audience

Elaboration (4) ACAVAR124

analysing how visual arts practices and processes and use of available technologies shape the practices of art, craft and design

Elaboration (3) ACAVAM127

developing skills that can transfer to cross-media and inter-media domains of visual arts

Elaboration ACAVAR131

analysing the role of visual arts as a means of challenging prevailing issues of traditional and contemporary relevance, for example, the availability of resources for future generations

Elaboration (1) ACAVAR131

identifying how visual arts professionals embed their values and beliefs, and how audiences react and interpret the meaning and intent of their artworks differently

Elaboration (3) ACAVAR131

considering the responsibilities of visual arts practitioners when making commentaries about social, environmental and sustainability issues

Elaboration (4) ACAVAR131

interrogating the cultural and societal roles and responsibilities of arts industries and recognising the power of the visual arts in advocating for, and being a catalyst for, change

ACAVAM106

Explore ideas, experiences, observations and imagination to create visual artworks and design, including considering ideas in artworks by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACAVAM118

Experiment with visual arts conventions and techniques, including exploration of techniques used by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, to represent a theme, concept or idea in their artwork