Year 11 Visual Art
11VART Course DescriptionTeacher in Charge: Ms L. Afoa.
Visual Arts students explore, refine, and communicate their own artistic ideas by responding to how art expresses identity, culture, ethnicity, ideas, feelings, moods, beliefs, political viewpoints, and personal perspectives. Through engaging in the visual arts, students learn how to discern, participate in, and celebrate their own and others' visual worlds. During the year learners will be using a variety of methods and materials to:
• use established conventions to learn about techniques, technologies, and processes in order to create effects and communicate ideas
• engage in learning that connects own and others artwork to te ao Māori, and other cultures, in local, historical, contemporary, and authentic contexts
• understand, use, and value both mātauranga Māori and te ao Māori in making art that reflects on and responds to Aotearoa New Zealand's unique history
• use mātauranga Māori contexts as expressed in Toi Tūturu, and/or Toi Whakawhiti, and/or Toi Rerekē to explore aesthetics and symbolism
• demonstrate understanding of the role and value of taonga within a mātauranga Māori context through research, authentic experience, and art making
• understand Visual Arts within Aotearoa New Zealand as part of a wider context of Pacific artmaking histories and practices, rooted within diverse knowledges, cultures and contexts of Pacific peoples
• demonstrate an understanding of intergenerational connections that can exist between people, places, and objects
• use creative thinking processes and demonstrate understanding of creative intent through purposeful art making and exploration
• value the process, embracing both expected and unexpected outcomes
• celebrate diversity, create understanding, and foster well-being through active participation in the arts
• apply understanding of ahurea tuakiri, ethnicity, ideas, feelings, beliefs, political viewpoints, and personal perspectives, and create artwork as a representation, response or means of self-expression.
Pati Solomona Tyrell, Matua, 2015.
Course Overview
Term 1
Ko wai au? Who am I?
1.1 Use practice-based visual inquiry to explore Aotearoa New Zealand’s Māori context and another cultural context
During this internal learners will be visiting a place of historical significance in our community and use visual arts practice to explore its Māori history. Learners will gather a range a material and sources of inspiration in their visual diary through various art making.
Learners will then reflect and respond to the links and connections and relationships as they respond to another location of significance to them.
Term 2
Turangawaewae Art Book
1.2 Produce resolved artwork appropriate to established art making conventions.
During this internal you will be asked to produce and artists book that is approximately 6xA5 pages that expresses a connection to a significant site that is significant to you or your local community.
You will be using established conventions appropriate to artists’ books to communicate personal ideas about a place.
Term 3
Working towards the Visual Arts 1.4 External
Create a sustained body of related artworks in response to an art making proposition
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Term 4
Folio presentation.
Pathway
"Te toi whakairo, ka ihiihi, ka wehiwehi, ka aweawe te ao katoa"
Artistic excellence makes the world sit up and wonder