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Contemporary Art (Elective)

“For the Christian, God is the supreme artist … God looked at His creation as it progressed and saw that it was good; when He had completed it, He said it was ‘very good’… The Great Artist was evidently much pleased with His world.” Clyde S. Kilby

Overview

Year 9 Art introduces students to a new range of materials, skills and techniques.  Students explore, develop and communicate ideas and are encouraged to make creative and personal responses to specific tasks.  Through imaginative experimentation of the selected materials, students develop and refine skills in traditional and contemporary practice.  The role of the Artist in society is investigated as well as the use of visual language in the creation of artworks.

Aims

CREATING AND MAKING

  • To manipulate arts elements and principles to effectively realise student’s ideas
  • To demonstrate a level of technical competence in the use of skills, techniques and processes
  • To develop artworks which reflect personal art responses to specific tasks

EXPLORING AND RESPONDING

  • To critically analyse and interpret artworks using appropriate arts language
  • To describe the stylistic, technical, expressive and aesthetic features of artworks created by a range of artists
  • To comment on the impact of the Artist in society

Topics Include

  • Traditional and Digital Painting
  • Intaglio Printmaking
  • Current textile trends, such as weaving and silk screening.
  • Artists and their artworks in society

Time Allocation

  • 5 periods per cycle

Requirements

  • Booklist Items
  • Levy Cost

Assessment

  • All class work; research and developmental work, practical projects and finished artworks
  • Written work and the study of artists, history and culture

“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.” Ecclesiastes 3:11