VCE Studio Arts + VCD

This AOS is split into two parts:

1. Research and exploration

2. Resolution, presentation and critique

Part 1, Research and Exploration involves:

• the use of Project-based learning as they begin to develop a Body of Work.

• researching one artwork by a selected contemporary or historical artist as inspiration for your own art practice.

• identify the ideas explored by the artist, and any issues that arise from the artwork or the practice of the artist.

• your Body of Work begins with a personal response, presented in a finished artwork, and the research and documentation of your  art practice.

• Responding to the research,  explore your own ideas through their use of the Creative Practice.

• explore the ideas communicated by the artist in the selected artwork and develop ideas in response. 

• identify any issues presented in the artwork or the practice of the artist you have studied to inform the development of their personal response.

• your personal response, resolved in a finished artwork, requires you to use the original artwork as a departure point for further investigation.

• Direct reinterpretations or appropriations of the original artwork should be avoided.

• you may create their response in a different art form than the artwork they research.
  you will document their research, ongoing exploration and experimentation, as well as the further development and refinement of their ideas and technical skills.

• you will explicitly apply the appropriate Interpretive Lenses, using art terminology, to reflect on personal ideas and their development of visual language throughout the Creative Practice.

• The documentation of your use of the Creative Practice will be presented as evidence of the exploration of ideas for the critique they present in Area of Study 1.

Part 2, Resolution, presentation and critique, involves:

• refinement of your skills and visual language in the resolution and presentation of at least one finished artwork.

• demonstrate how the idea you have chosen to explore relates and responds to your research.

• you will evaluate, reflect and talk about their use of the Creative Practice in a critique, which includes the presentation of at least one finished artwork.

• Using the appropriate Interpretive Lenses, discuss how you have responded to their research, the ideas you have focused on and how you have explored and experimented with materials, techniques, processes and art forms to establish your visual language.

• reflect on the feedback they receive from the critique and consider how you can expand upon their ideas as you continue to develop their Body of Work in Area of Study 2.

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In Area of Study 1, the three artists selected for study must be from different periods of time and cultures and include at least one contemporary artist and at least one Australian artist.

On completion of this unit you should be able to develop personal ideas using research that examines one artwork and the practice of an artist, and produce at least one finished artwork using the Creative Practice.

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Key knowledge

•    ideas and related issues explored by artists in their artworks
•    the use of selected materials, techniques, processes and art forms throughout the Creative Practice
•    the ways visual language is used to communicate ideas or issues
•    the use of materials, techniques and processes in art forms to develop effective visual language
•    the selection of appropriate Interpretive Lenses throughout the Creative Practice
•    methods used to document, reflect upon and evaluate the use of the Creative Practice to develop and refine artworks
•    methods used to present a critique of the use of the Creative Practice and finished artworks

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Key skills

•    research and analyse the ideas explored by artists in their artworks
•    research and analyse issues related to the artwork or practice of the artist
•    use selected materials, techniques, processes and art forms throughout the Creative Practice
•    develop and critically evaluate visual language to communicate ideas or issues
•    explore and document the use of materials, techniques and processes to develop effective visual language
•    select and apply the appropriate Interpretive Lenses throughout the Creative Practice
•    explore, document, reflect on and evaluate the use of the Creative Practice to develop and refine an artwork, using appropriate written and visual material
•    apply appropriate methods to present a critique of the use of the Creative Practice and the finished artworks

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