Visual arts experiences in schools develop students' creative abilities. Students learn to communicate through the images they make and develop pride in their work. They bring new images into existence by manipulating visual elements and basing ideas on observation and imagination. Students acquire skills in various materials and techniques, and learn to present their works effectively. The document defines art, craft, and design - art concerns concepts and ideas, craft focuses on skills, and design specifies products in advance.

1. Art and
Craft
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2. ✘ Visual arts experiences in schools develop students' capacities
to create visual and tactile works. Study of the visual arts
enables students to understand and enjoy the images and
forms and others make. Through practical experiences,
students acquire an understanding of a diverse range of art and
craft. They learn to use both traditional processes and new
technologies to produce art and craft works. Students learn to
communicate through the images and forms they make, and to
develop a sense of pride at producing visible statements of
their thoughts and feelings.
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Creating, Making and
Presenting
Through manipulating visual media, students bring into existence new
images and objects. They also use a variety of approaches to generate ideas,
including drawing, observing, recording, photographing, experimenting and
examining other images or forms.
They base their ideas on personal perceptions and observations, fantasy and
imagination. In making an art or craft work, students learn to manipulate
visual elements such as line, shape, colour, texture and form. They learn to
use concepts of style and form which become increasingly personal and
selective as they advance.

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Students acquire skills and techniques in handling and controlling
different materials and techniques. They learn to work to the
limitations of materials, media and technologies, as well as to
develop their potential and exploit their strengths. Students also
learn to present their art works to best effect.
Students discuss the arts and learn skills of visual discrimination as
they analyze the style, technique, subject matter and design of art
works. They use the language and terminology of the visual arts to
describe and respond to art works.

5. Students study the visual arts in the social, cultural
and historical contexts in which they were produced.
They seek to understand the meanings and values
different cultures and societies assign to visual images
and forms. They learn to understand how the visual arts
may both reinforce and challenge values. Students
realize the importance of studying the work of both
women and men. Students also study the links between
the visual arts and other arts forms and areas of the
curriculum and examine art, craft and design as areas of
industry and employment. Visual arts experiences may
be seen to involve the three fields of 'art', 'craft' and
'design'. Each of these describes processes, suggests
types of products, and defines people who are artists,
craft artists and designers.

6. “
Is a concern with concepts, feelings, ideas,
images and forms and is often used
specifically to refer to media such as
painting, printmaking and sculpture. A
wider definition would include work in all
media and embrace metal art, textile art,
and ceramic art among others.
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Art

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Is a concern with the crafting of an art work, with
closer attention being paid to skills and
techniques. Craft objects may be functional or
non-functional and involve traditional or non-
traditional methods. It is also common for the
word craft to be used in association with some
media, for example, textiles, ceramic, glass, wood
and metal.
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Craft

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Is a process where the intention and purpose of a product
is specified in advance Designers often work to a brief
which puts limitations on or sets requirements for the
image, product or environment to be planned By contrast
the artist or craft artist may work for more personal
reasons, such as the desire to give meaning to experience.
The artist and craft artist are the makers of their
products, designers often plan or design products to be
made or manufactured by others
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Design

9. Child Art
Development

10. Early Development in Visual
Arts
✘ Produce artworks in a free and spontaneous way
✘ Develop a personal way of using paintings, drawings and constructions to
express ideas and feelings about things they experience
✘ Produce artworks which represent things that are meaningful or important
at the time, particularly people, places and activities · Produce visual
symbols which initially emerge from scribble patterns and show an
increased attention to detail
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11. Early Development in Visual
Arts
✘ Use a range of visual devices in their artworks to express their emotional and intellectual
response to their world. They may:
1. Exaggerate the size and shape of images and objects
2. Use colour in an emotional rather than realistic way
3. Show a sequence of events in a visual narrative in drawings, constructions or clay work
4. Enjoy looking at and talking about images and objects, particularly subject matter
5. Learn about qualities of materials and experiment with paint, crayon, pencil, clay,
cardboard and scrap materials. Children may show preferences for particular materials and a
characteristic way of working with them.
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12. Middle Development in Visual
Arts
✘ Produce images and objects which become more elaborate in detail
✘ Use a range of visual devices in their artworks to communicate experiences visually.
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They may:
1.) Use multiple baselines, fold over images or combine top, side and front views to
show spatial relationships
2.) Use colour in a realistic way
3.) Show greater awareness of proportion
4.) Show a growing interest in design, decoration and pattern making are intrigued and
influenced by images from the mass media, particularly film and television
5.) Reflect their interest in the wider world through the use of varied subject matter

13. Later Development in Visual Arts
✘ Show an increasing interest in depicting what they see
✘ Use a range of visual devices in their artworks as they strive for realism.
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They may:
1.) Replace the baseline and use techniques such as perspective
to show depth or shadow to depict volume
2.) Be more concerned with the naturalistic use of colour
3.) Concentrate on detail and pattern and show features such as
sex differences and greater detail of clothing, objects and
surroundings.

14. Further Development in Visual
Arts
✘ Explore the expressive potential of media and develop a variety of skills using different
methods and techniques
✘ Are interested in expressing abstract concepts through their artworks
✘ Are interested in the meaning of artworks, such as the way images and objects can
convey personal views and social messages
✘ Develop their capacity to use subjective and objective criteria when making
judgements about artworks
✘ Make cultural and stylistic comparisons and judgements on the basis of personal
research
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