Visual Art 10, 20, 30
CR30.3
Critically reflect on choice of discipline, content and media in the development of own voice and style.
Indicators for this outcome
| (a) | Review and discuss portfolios (e.g., own and peers, physical folder or digital collection) and write artist biographies and statements for individual works and/or a series of works. |
| (b) | Reflect on own work and select examples to include in a portfolio (e.g., documentation of creative process, sketches showing idea development, photos of works in progress and resolved, collection of various techniques or different media). |
| (c) | Explain, using visual art terminology, how one’s portfolio is demonstrating ideas, style and voice (e.g., How is the work related to a big idea?). |
| (d) | Research, deconstruct, and discuss various approaches to the creative process and apply that understanding to own work. |
| (e) | Document and assess personal development in the creative process. |
| (f) | Document how an artist develops a style and voice over time including development of cultural, Western and personal narratives. |
| (g) | Discuss how groups within societies have determined definitions of art throughout history leading to the exclusion or inclusion of specific voices (e.g., How have artists, minorities and their allies challenged definitions of art and promoted inclusion of diverse voices?). |
| (h) | Examine artistic influences and describe the impact of those influences on own work. |
| (i) | Search for inspiration through a variety of sources (e.g., music, fashion, other artists) to extend ideas and techniques to apply to future works. |
| (j) | Investigate Indigenous perspectives and ways of knowing to appreciate sources of inspiration (e.g., memory, history, story) and range of artistic styles, and describe how personal worldview, voice and style are demonstrated in own artistic development. |
| (k) | Conduct an investigation into the connections between place, territory and/or identity (e.g., research Canadian artists whose work reflects a sense of place and identity). |
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