Scotch College

ART Year 9 — 2012

Rationale

The study of Art in Year 9 is centered on the use of traditional and conventional fine art methods and materials to produce creative work.  Students gain an appreciation of an individual artist or group of artists’ style and practice in a historic and cultural context. 

Conflict Resolution is the thematic approach used in Year 9.  Historically, artists have found new forms of expression to communicate their thoughts and feelings during times of war and upheaval.  Using current local and international events as our source material students are encouraged to explore their personal responses in provocative, humorous and thought provoking ways.  

It includes a comprehensive study of idealized depictions of the Anzacs, comparing this work with that of the more assertive and expressive examples produced by the Angry Penguin artists in Australia.  Internationally, Modernism has also developed through a similar period of upheaval, commencing with Cubism, then the influence of the First World War on the Dada and Surrealist movements, to Expressionism and Symbolism.

Student Outcomes

• understand how artworks reflect the values, beliefs and traditions of their own and other cultures
• analyze, interpret and respond to artworks, ideas and concepts using the support of the Analytical Frameworks
• analyze and draw inspiration from the ways in which artists use various visual elements, together with materials and techniques in the production of the individual artworks
• encourage artistic development through personal and independent exploration, with an emphasis on innovative thinking and investigation and aesthetic awareness

• develop personal ideas and a creative visual language through investigation and experimentation in art making
• creating standards and values and generating desirable behavior patterns
• provide a learning experience appropriate to the needs of each student and through these experiences to stimulate development according to each students potential
• promote creativity and imagination; to exercise the emotions and intellect simultaneously

Course Content 

The practical component of the Art course involves the research, exploration, development and refinement of a theme or idea.  These ideas are recorded and developed in a Visual Journal and afterwards refined in a major studio work.  Practical work will focus on drawing, painting, sculpture and printmaking.  Conventional art forms are combined with collage, photomontage and screen printing as well as more modern techniques such as stencil and graffiti art, to enable students to explore thought provoking art.  The students are also encouraged to develop their own self-directed journal pages that explore a range of ideas, media and materials of their choice.  Written essays and semester examinations:  Based on knowledge of artists both past and present who have contributed to societies cultural development.

Assessment 

Examination 

Finished Art Work/Folio

ICT Application/Research Assignments

Design and Development Journal

Art:  Studio Art - Digital Photography, Digital Imaging & Animation

Rationale 

Digital Photography:  Photography, Digital Imaging & Animation:

We live in an increasingly digital world overflowing with visual images.  Everyone has access to a digital camera. This course gives students the opportunity to explore a range of subjects related to digital photography.  It will focus on the skills required to critically interpret the myriad of visual images that they are faced within their everyday life.  This will enable the students to develop in their own work a strong visual aesthetic and a discerning eye.  

Using an analytical and practical approach, students explore design elements and principles and camera techniques.  They develop production skills, and a critical understanding of the way images can reflect and impact on our society, including issues of copyright.  The course also assists students to articulate their own positions on issues of ethics, values and the influence of the image, while enabling them to realize a folio of work that expresses their creative response to the world in which they live.

Student Outcomes

• express themselves creatively through photography and digital imaging, with an emphasis on innovative thinking and investigation
• develop, practice and refine specialized skills and an aesthetic awareness in the production of their photography and digital imaging
• develop and apply skills in visual analysis including the use of appropriate terminology in relation to their own artwork and artists studies
• acquire an understanding of how artists develop styles and interpret subject matter
• contribute to the students confidence in his own ability, cultivating  his individuality, giving him standards and values and generating desirable behavior patterns

Course Content 

• Analyze and apply the use of the design elements, principles, camera techniques and digital imaging software to produce a range of photography.

• Consider and formulate their own positions on issues of ethics, values and the influence of photography on society.

• Communicate a story through a photographic topic including story boarding for an animation.

• Using photography, photomontages, drawing and mixed media to create altered images.

Looking at how artists have used photography and animation to address Conflict .  The practical component of this course involves the research, exploration, development and refinement of a theme or idea within a contemporary context.  Exploring such topics as:

• - the history of photographic journalism, especially wartime photography past and present and how it relates to current visual mediums such as video games
• - the influence of photography on Surrealism and its attempt to portray the subconscious
• - modern and contemporary Portraiture and the way it comments on societies
• - animation that uses simulated violence and aggression to relate to viewers own feelings and emotions to entertain, instruct and tell stories i.e., Tom & Jerry and Dali and Walt Disney’s collaborative animation ‘Destino’.
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These ideas are recorded and developed in a visual journal and afterwards refined in a major studio work.  Students are expected to develop their own themes and self-directed journal pages that explore a range of ideas, media and materials.  This requirement is in line with the VCE practice of requiring visual support material for a practical folio.

Assessment 

Examination Finished Art Work/Folio

Design and Development Journal ICT Application/Research Assignments

Art:  Visual Communication & Design

Rationale 

Visual Communication and Design consists of training in visual literacy and practical problem solving using graphic techniques.  It aims to translate often confusing verbal or written information into a clear, universal and visual 

language.  Visual Communication and Design satisfies the needs of specific clients and solves design problems in a 

visual way using the design process.

Student Outcomes

• discover ways in which graphics can be used to communicate ideas and information.
• students will be expected to analyse, interpret, understand and appreciate the Visual Communication of others 
• students will explore how to solve communication and design problems creatively, and imaginatively using graphic tools, drawing systems and the design process 
• students develop drawing skills and computer skills in the manipulation of images and layout
• students will be encouraged to develop visual thinking and expression 
• students will explore the role of graphic communication in industry and in the wider world 

Course Content 

• Students are introduced to the major concepts of Visual Communication and Design and taught the drawing systems and rendering techniques required to solve visual problems.

• Students will study the communication of ideas and factual information by graphic means such as charts, diagrams, symbols and other specialized drawing techniques as employed by draughtsman, designers, technical/scientific illustrators and journalists.  

• It is expected that on completion of the course that students will have developed an awareness of the elements and principles of design.

• Major projects will require independent research and investigation, resulting in the production of both two and three-dimensional solutions which conform to the given design briefs.  Themes will be developed from areas of product, packaging or construction design.  Skills in freehand, conceptual and observational drawing will developed along with rendering and model making. 

Assessment 

Examination

Finished Art Work/Folio

Design and Development Journal

ICT Application/Research Assignments