Ceramic Heads
| Grade | Work Samples |
|---|---|
| End of Stage 4 (end of Year 8) | |
| Grade A | Taylor Reese |
| Grade B | Ariel |
- New Work Samples
- Jessie
Description of activity
Students explore a range of ceramic techniques with a focus on handbuilding and surface decoration to make a three-dimensional portrait in clay.
Context
Students have explored how artists have represented the human form in three dimensions. They have investigated the use of materials and techniques by a range of artists from different times and places, for example Roman busts, Greek bronze sculptures, modern and contemporary works such as Raoul Hausman’s Mechanical Head, and Arthur Boyd’s and Ah Xian’s ceramic works. Students have made some preliminary drawings of people focusing on the features, textures and structures of the head in their Visual Arts diary. They have experimented with handbuilding and decorative techniques including joining, incising, subtracting and adding clay as well as applying glazes and colour.
Areas for Assessment
Outcomes
A student:
4.1 uses a range of strategies to explore different artmaking conventions and procedures to make artworks
4.2 explores the function of and relationships between the artist – artwork – world – audience
4.3 makes artworks that involve some understanding of the frames
4.4 recognises and uses aspects of the world as a source of ideas, concepts and subject matter in the visual arts
4.5 investigates ways to develop meaning in their artworks
4.6 selects different materials and techniques to make artworks
Criteria for assessing learning
(These criteria would normally be communicated to students with the activity.)
Students will be assessed on their:
- understanding of the conventions of ceramic practice including handbuilding techniques, surface decoration, use of glazes
- understanding of the structural frame through the symbolic use of subject matter, colour, texture and applied decoration
- investigation of the relationships between the agencies of the conceptual framework in communicating ideas about the qualities of the subject to an audience.