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7–10Visual Arts 7–10 Syllabus

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Implementation from 2027
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Content

Stage 5

Art critical and historical practice
Intentions, choices and actions as an art critic and art historian
  • Investigate and interpret the role and work of artworld practitioners, with a focus on how their intentions evolve in relation to artworks, audiences and the world

  • Research and explain the value and significance of artistic practices, conventions and procedures that are informed by different times, places and cultures

  • Interpret artworks using different viewpoints to explain the meaning and intentions of artists, artworld practitioners and artworks

  • Explain how and why artworks may be interpreted in different ways by artists, writers, art critics, art historians, art curators and audiences

  • Investigate and apply the ways art critics and art historians construct and represent arguments about artists and their artworks

  • Investigate how art curators represent meaning by intentionally selecting, organising and displaying artworks to engage an audience

  • Read and analyse art critical interpretations and art historical explanations of artworks

  • Create written texts to represent intentions, choices and actions as an art critic and art historian

  • Use subject-specific language to communicate and represent Artworld concepts and Viewpoints

  • Respond to expressions of Cultural Practices and sustainable ways of being, knowing, thinking and doing by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Artists

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