VCE Units 1 & 2 – Art Creative Practice

VCE Units 1 & 2 – Art Creative Practice

Overview

In the study of VCE Art Creative Practice, research and investigation inform art making. Through the study of artworks, the practices of artists and their role in society, students develop their individual art practice, and communicate ideas and meaning using a range of materials, techniques and processes. This study provides students with an informed context to support an awareness of art as a tool for cultural, social and personal communication, and the stimulus and inspiration to develop their art practice.

Unit 1: Interpreting artworks and exploring the Creative Practice

As the artist and audience, students consider their connection to artworks, and how their communication of ideas and presentation of artworks challenge, shape and influence viewer or audience perspectives.

Areas of Study:

1. Artists, artworks and audiences – Students are introduced to the Structural and the Personal Lenses by researching and analysing three artists, their practices and their artworks.
2. The Creative Practice – Students explore at least three art forms. They respond to a range of artworks, ideas and the practices of artists through experimentation and exploration. They build skills using materials, techniques and processes, and explore areas of personal interest to develop and make visual responses.
3. Documenting and reflecting on the Creative Practice – Students develop their art practice by responding to the ways artists conceptualise, develop and make their artworks. They provide annotated documentation of their experiences in Making and Responding in a form appropriate to their art practice.

Unit 2: Interpreting artworks and developing the Creative Practice

Students use Inquiry learning to investigate the artistic and collaborative practices of artists. They use the Cultural Lens, and the other Interpretive Lenses as appropriate, to examine artworks from different periods of time and cultures, and to explore the different ways that artists interpret and communicate social and personal ideas in artworks.

Areas of Study:

1. The artist, society and culture – Students focus on the ways in which art reflects and communicates the values, beliefs and traditions of the societies in which it was created.
2. The collaborative Creative Practice – Students continue to develop their art practice as they explore collaborative practices to make and present artworks.

Forms of Assessment

Exploration proposal, Design Process Folio, Folio of finished art works, Analysis essay of artists

Prerequisites and Corequisites

Students should have successfully completed an appropriate Year 10 Art subject.