Here you will find materials and information relating to Years 11 and 12 including:
an overview of the changes to the WACE and the course materials, Syllabus and Support material documents and the WACE Manual.
Unit 1: The focus of this unit is differences. Students consider differences arising from cultural diversity, place, gender, class and historical period in their art making and interpretation.
Unit 2: The focus of this unit is identities. Students explore concepts or issues related to personal, social, cultural or gender identity in their art making and interpretation.
Unit 1: The focus for Unit 1 is experiences. Students base art making and interpretation on their lives and personal experiences, observations of the immediate environment, events and/or special occasions.
Unit 2: The focus for Unit 2 is explorations. Students explore ways to generate and develop ideas using a variety of stimulus materials and explorations from their local environment in their art making and interpretation.
Unit 3: The focus of this unit is commentaries. Students engage with the social and cultural purposes of art making and interpretation.
Unit 4: The focus of this unit is on points of view. Students identify and explore concepts or issues of personal significance in art making and interpretation.
Unit 3: The focus for Unit 3 is inspirations. Students become aware that artists gain inspiration and generate ideas from diverse sources, including what is experienced, learned about, believed in, valued, imagined or invented.
Unit 4: The focus for Unit 4 is investigations. Students explore and develop ideas for art making and interpretation through the investigation of different artists, art forms, processes and technologies.
Click on the links below to find a range of art reviews.
Click on the links below to find information on art styles, artists, museums and galleries.
The Starry Night is an oil painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh that depicts a night sky with a crescent moon, stars, cypress trees, and a village. The painting was created in 1889 while van Gogh was staying at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in France.
The State Library of WA has a selection of eResources that are available for free but require a membership. You can sign up online and may need a parent/guardian permission to obtain a card, State Library of Western Australia - Apply for Membership.
Art & Australia is a biannual print magazine, the country's longest-running art journal, in print since 1963.
Design & Art Australia Online contains data about Australian artists, designers, craftspeople and curators. The site is a space for people to share and analyse data about Australian art and design history.
Oxford Art Online is the home of Grove Art Online, an authority on all aspects of art from pre-history to the present day.
Discover amazing photos and a rich selection of media covered in these dictionaries and encyclopaedias of art, design, architecture and artists.
The Pioneer is a 1904 painting by Australian artist Frederick McCubbin. The painting is a triptych; the three panels tell a story of a free selector and his family making a life in the Australian bush.
The visual arts are those creations that we can see rather than something like the auditory arts, which we hear. These art forms are extremely diverse, from the artwork that hangs on your wall to the movie you watched last night.
There is no one universal definition of visual art though there is a general consensus that art is the conscious creation of something beautiful or meaningful using skill and imagination.
