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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 making: Artworld concepts
Artist
  • Adopt the role of the artist to make artworks that represent points of view about the world

  • Examine how artists represent intentions, ideas and interests to inform own art making

  • Investigate and compare how artists use art forms, materials and approaches to represent meaning, and apply to own art making with increasing autonomy

Artwork
  • Evaluate how artworks function as forms of representation in the artworld

  • Make and refine artworks using a range of materials, techniques, skills and approaches, including 2D, 3D and/or 4D art forms, to represent intentions, choices and actions

  • Investigate the ways artworks represent artists’ intentions and ideas to audiences in art making

World
  • Investigate the world as a source of ideas and subject matter to represent meaning in artworks

  • Investigate and select subject matter and ideas to represent personal, symbolic, cultural or critical meanings when making artworks

Audience
  • Evaluate the role of audiences in relation to making artworks

  • Investigate how audiences interact with artworks through exhibitions and/or multisensory displays

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