CR20.1
Identify and analyse criteria for critiquing and valuing various forms of visual art.
Indicators for this outcome
(a) Generate questions and conduct an inquiry into factors that influence judgements about the aesthetic quality or economic value of various forms of art (e.g., What is art? Who decides which art is good? Are there objective criteria for evaluating art? What factors influence the price of works of art? How does the art market work?).
(b) Identify criteria that are most appropriate to a particular form or style of art and apply when critiquing (e.g., architecture, designed object, cultural artifact, contemporary urban street art, comic, controversial public art).
(c) Collaborate with peers to co-construct assessment criteria (e.g., technical skills, compositional qualities, use of images) for reflection on the development and resolution of own work, and identify what will be used as evidence of learning (e.g., journals, sketchbooks, artist’s statements, video documentation, critiques, portfolios).
(d) Draw on experience and expertise of students and/or community members to increase understanding of criteria used when responding to the diversity of art forms and artistic practices (e.g., beading, tattooing, clothing design, interactive sculpture).
(e) Discuss the use and impact, in various forms of visual art, of image development strategies such as:
  • abstract
  • animate
  • distort
  • elaborate
  • exaggerate
  • fragment
  • hybridize
  • juxtapose
  • layer
  • magnify
  • metamorphose
  • miniaturize
  • multiply
  • point of view
  • recontextualize
  • reverse
  • rotate
  • simplify
  • stylize
  • use of text
(f) Demonstrate understanding of the language of art and terminology when writing or discussing art works, recognizing historical contexts and respecting cultural practices.
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