Course topics.

Try this with Visual Arts

1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• The seven elements of art: analysing line, colour, shape, texture, space, value and form
• The principles of art: balance, emphasis, contrast, unity, variety, repetition, proportion, scale and movement
• Section One short answers: explaining how an element or principle is utilised
• Art terminology for media, techniques and art forms in 2D, 3D and time-based work
• Formal organisation (composition): viewpoint, space, depth, focal point and visual pathways
• Critical analysis frameworks: STICI, Taylor, Feldman and the Four Frames
• The compare and contrast essay: making comparisons and connections between two unseen artworks
• Interpreting meaning and purpose from visual evidence, title, medium and context prompts
• Personal response and alternative points of view: offering and supporting more than one reading
• Evaluating and judging the success of an artwork in communicating meaning or purpose
• Roles of artists in society: hero, outsider, commentator and social critic
• Social functions of art: political and ideological expression, satire, propaganda, social description and graphic communication
• Form, function and meaning; re-contextualisation and appropriation
• Analysing social, religious, political and cultural commentary in artwork from different times and places
• Points of view: how time, place, culture, religion, politics, gender and race shape an artist's position
• Audience, artwork and meaning: art that challenges attitudes, beliefs, values and ideologies
• How formal, stylistic and technical choices contribute to function and meaning (media, style, innovation)
• Researching context: locating the production and reception of artists, movements and groups
• Building a research/investigation case study bank: artists, two or more artworks, context and evidence
• Section Three extended responses: answering three-part context, meaning and evaluation questions