Victorian & Australian Curriculum Links

Victorian Curriculum:
Visual Arts

Observing and investigating how artists select and apply different visual arts techniques to express themes, concepts and ideas and considering how they could use these in their own art making. (VCAVAE033)
Exploring why artists have use specific stylistic qualities in their art works, for example, – why an artist use a particular style of expression? What other forms and styles suit the message the artist is conveying? (VCAVAE033)
Selecting contextual information about artists, artworks and audiences as inspiration for their artworks. (VCAVAE034)
Applying critical theories to the analysis and interpretation of artworks, for example, identifying explicit and implicit meanings in artworks. (VCAVAE034)

Exploring artists use of materials and techniques to create artworks for public spaces, for example, researching the context of time and place, culture and ideology as an influence on the look and meaning of art in public spaces. (VCAVAV035)

Researching ideas for display or presentation, reflecting on different times, places and cultures, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. (VCAVAP037)
Exploring social relationships as subject matter within artworks and how the display of these artworks reflects, challenges or extends the relationships between the artist and the audience. (VCAVAP037)

Critically analysing an artist’s intention for an artwork and their use of visual conventions. (VCAVAR038)
Discussing and identifying how artists express cultural identity in their artworks, for example, how artists from different cultures express the concepts of place and country, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. (VCAVAR038)
Recognising how different factors contribute to the ways in which visual artworks are judged to be meaningful by an audience. (VCAVAR039)

Exploring the practices of a range of artists and identifying the influences on the development of the artists’ personal style. (VCAVAE040)
Conceptualising how visual conventions can express ideas in their artwork. (VCAVAE040)

Analysing and documenting the practices of selected visual artists and designers, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, to investigate their use of materials, technologies, techniques and processes, when developing their intentions. (VCAVAV043)

Visiting galleries, art museums and public art displays, in formal and informal settings, to research the role of the curator and the evaluate the effective display or exhibition of artworks. (VCAVAP044)
Exploring a range of artworks in different settings and discuss how the location can influence the viewer’s understanding of the artwork. (VCAVAP044)

Analysing the role of visual arts as a means of challenging prevailing traditional ideas, for example, how contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artworks challenge prevailing traditional ideas about traditional art styles from this culture. (VCAVAR046)

Observing how artists select and apply different visual arts techniques to represent themes, concepts and ideas and considering how they could use these in their own art making. (ACAVAM118)
Investigating the viewpoints of several artists when making decisions about how they will represent a theme, concept or subject matter, particularly focusing on different contexts, practices, techniques and styles. (ACAVAM119)
Refining and selecting contextual information about artists, artworks and audiences to make connections between the significance of particular artworks on their art making. (ACAVAM119)
Considering viewpoints – societies and cultures: For example – How does the context of time and place, culture and ideology influence the look and meaning of art in public spaces? (ACAVAM120)
Exploring social relationships as subject matter within artworks and how the display of these artworks reflects, challenges or extends the relationships between the artist and the audience. (ACAVAM122)
Visiting and critiquing a physical or virtual exhibition of art, craft or design, and reviewing how artists have used visual conventions in their artworks. (ACAVAR123)

Conceptualising how visual conventions can represent ideas in their artwork. (ACAVAM125)
Analysing and documenting the practices of selected visual artists and designers, including their use of materials, technologies, techniques and processes, when developing their art and design intentions for representation. (ACAVAM128)
Visiting galleries, art museums and public art displays, in formal and informal settings, to research the role of the curator and the elements of good display/exhibition, which they then apply to their own ideas for an exhibition of their own or others’ artworks. (ACAVAM129)
Developing representational ideas as images, objects and spaces to highlight the interconnection of making and display, and how the artwork establishes interaction between the artist and the audience. (ACAVAM129)
Considering viewpoints – evaluations: For example – Who would you like to judge the success of your artwork? Why? (ACAVAR130)
Considering the responsibilities of visual arts practitioners when making commentaries about social, environmental and sustainability issues. (ACAVAR131)

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