This course is a Year 11 Visual Arts course aimed at developing students' creativity, technical skills, and understanding of visual arts. It involves making artworks in different media like photography, digital media, printmaking, and painting. Students will also develop their knowledge of art history from traditional to modern and postmodern eras, and engage in art criticism and theory. The course prepares students for the HSC and potential careers in fields like advertising, graphics, and gallery management.

1. Year 11 Visual Arts

2. Who is this course for? This course is for students: Who have a passion and enjoyment for Visual Arts Who are highly able art students W ho want to expand their appreciation of the role of Visual Arts in our society

3. Where will this course lead you? This course is designed to develop your: Creativity Increasing autonomy in practical and theoretical understanding, knowledge and skills Initiative in undertaking academic work A bility to work independently and collaboratively A ppreciation of Visual Arts and contemporary art practice

4. Develop a deeper understanding of the content – subject matter, forms and frames – of the Visual Arts through experience in each of the practices of: Art Making Studies Art Critical Studies Art Historical Studies This course allows you to:

5. Year 11 and 12 Visual Arts aims to: Enrich your understanding of the Visual Arts in contemporary and past worlds; Develop your art making skills and representation of ideas and images with different materials, techniques and processes; Challenge you approach to work in order to develop your creativity, technical skills, concepts, communication and presentation skills; Develop an informed point of view about art and understand how artworks are made, valued, interpreted and used; and Excite your imagination and your expectation of yourself

6. What career opportunities are there? Advertising Graphics and Design Architecture Visual Arts Art Education Gallery Management

7. HSC Results: 2003 Visual Arts HSC Results 2003 (16 Knox candidates, 8462 students in NSW) Thirteen (13) students achieved Band 6 Three (3) students achieved Band 5 Seven (7) students pre selected for possible inclusion in ArtExpress One (1) student selected to exhibit their Body of Work in ArtExpress Mean Std Dev Band 6 Band 5 Band 4 Band 3 Band 2 Band 1 Knox 91.5* 5.3 81.3% 18.8% - - - - NSW 78.2 9.9 11.3% 38.4% 33.5% 14.2% 2.1% 0.6%

8. HSC Results: 2004 Eleven (11) students achieved Band 6 Seven (7) students achieved Band 5 Ten (10) students pre selected for possible inclusion in ArtExpress Four (4) students were selected to exhibit their work in ArtExpress Visual Arts HSC Results 2004 (18 Knox candidates; 8486 in NSW) Mean Std Dev Band 6 Band 5 Band 4 Band 3 Band 2 Band 1 Knox 90.4 4.5 61.1% 38.9% - - - - NSW 78.5 8.8 11.0% 36.9% 37.8% 12.8% 1.1% 0.1%

9. HSC Results: 2005 Fourteen (14) students achieved Band 6 Two (2) students achieved Band 5 Two (2) students achieved Band 4 Sixteen (16) students pre selected for possible inclusion in ArtExpress Seven (7) students were selected to exhibit their work in ArtExpress Visual Arts HSC Results 2005 (18 Knox candidates; 8486 in NSW) Mean Std Dev Band 6 Band 5 Band 4 Band 3 Band 2 Band 1 Knox 92.5 4.5 77.8% 11.2% 11.2% - - - NSW 79.1 8.8 11.0% 36.9% 37.8% 12.8% 1.1% 0.1%

10. HSC Results: 2006 Fourteen (14) students achieved Band 6 Two (2) students achieved Band 5 Seven (7) students pre selected for possible inclusion in ArtExpress Three (3) students were selected to exhibit their work in ArtExpress Visual Arts HSC Results 2006 (16 Knox candidates; 8766 in NSW) Mean Std Dev Band 6 Band 5 Band 4 Band 3 Band 2 Band 1 Knox 92.5 4.5 87.5% 12.5% - - - - NSW 79.1 8.8 13.26% 42.39% 35.34% 8.2% 0.05% 0.29%

11. HSC Results: 2007 Fourteen (14) students achieved Band 6 Two (2) students achieved Band 5 Thirteen(13) students pre selected for possible inclusion in ArtExpress One (1) students were selected to exhibit their work in ArtExpress Visual Arts HSC Results 2007 (16 Knox candidates; 8766 in NSW) Mean Std Dev Band 6 Band 5 Band 4 Band 3 Band 2 Band 1 Knox 89.60 50% 50% - - - - NSW 79.51 11.42% 40.54% 35.34% 8.2% 0.05% 0.29%

12. HSC Results: 2008 Fourteen (14) students achieved Band 6 Two (2) students achieved Band 5 Ten (10) students pre selected for possible inclusion in ArtExpress Four (4) students were selected to exhibit their work in ArtExpress Visual Arts HSC Results 2008 (16 Knox candidates; 8766 in NSW) Mean Std Dev Band 6 Band 5 Band 4 Band 3 Band 2 Band 1 Knox 89.60 64% 36% - - - - NSW 79.51 14% 46 % 30% 7% 0.08% 0.21%

13. HSC Results: 2009 Seventeen (17) students achieved Band 6 Six (6) students achieved Band 5 Five (5) students pre selected for possible inclusion in ArtExpress Two (2) students were selected to exhibit their work in ArtExpress Visual Arts HSC Results 2009 (23 Knox candidates; 9000+ in NSW) Mean Std Dev Band 6 Band 5 Band 4 Band 3 Band 2 Band 1 Knox 90.83 74% 26% - - - - NSW 79.67 12% 41% 36% 8% 1% 0.1%

14. HSC Results: 2010 Seventeen (20) students achieved Band 6 Six (8) students achieved Band 5 Six (6) students pre selected for possible inclusion in ArtExpress Five (5) students were selected to exhibit their work in ArtExpress Visual Arts HSC Results 2010 (28 Knox candidates; 9620 in NSW) Mean Std Dev Band 6 Band 5 Band 4 Band 3 Band 2 Band 1 Knox 90.83 71% 29% - - - - NSW 79.67 12% 39% 37% 11% 1% 0.1%

15. Year 11: Preliminary Course Assessment: School-based assessment: Artmaking (50%) Art Criticism and Art History (50%) A focus on the key components and concepts in the Visual Arts through… The content of practice, conceptual framework and frames Making artworks in at least 2 art forms Use of Visual Arts Process Diary Broad investigation of ideas in art criticism and art history

16. What practical experiences will you have within this Year 11 course? Photography – Colour, Black &White Digital Media – Graphic Design Installation Printmaking and Mixed Media Painting and Mixed Media Drawing and Mixed Media

17. Installation: Group Work

18. Installation: Group Work

19. Installation: Group Work

20. Installation: Group Work

21. Installation: Individual Work

22. Installation: Individual Work

23. Installation: Individual Work

24. Installation: Individual Work

25. Installation: Individual Work

26. Painting & Mixed Media

27. Painting & Mixed Media

28. Year 11 Mixed Media

29. Year 11 Mixed Media

30. What theoretical experiences will you have within this course? Traditional Art History Modern Art History Post Modern History Broad investigations of ideas in Art Criticism and Art History within Landscape, Body & Object:

31. Traditional Art History www.powow.com/ wfan/bosch04.jpg Hieronymus Bosch www.illumin.co.uk/svank/ biog/arcim/winter.html Giuseppe Arcimboldo

32. Modern Art History serendip.brynmawr.edu/.../ surrealism%20dali. Salvadore Dali, www.mat.ucsb.edu/.../ images/paint-balla.jpg Balla: Dog on a Leash, oil on canvas, 1912.

33. Post Modern Art History www.georgetown.edu/.../ Artworld-examples.html Antony Gormley www.studio-international.co.uk/.../ Gormley1b.jpg