City landscape
| Grade | Work Samples |
|---|---|
| End of Stage 5 (end of Year 10) | |
| Grade A | Dale |
| Grade B | Reese |
Description of activity
Students investigate a range of painting techniques such as scumbling, impasto, dry brush and glazing, to represent the subject matter of the city. They consider how visual qualities including composition, colour, tone, line, and scale can communicate a point of view about the city.
Context
Students have investigated landscape painting focusing on urban scenes, in particular Modernist works by Grace Cossington Smith, Margaret Preston and Jeffrey Smart, various Fauve artists, and works by Mandy Martin and John Cattapan. They have completed a city walk and recorded aspects of the city using digital cameras as well as making a series of sketches using pencil, charcoal and pen. Students have used these preliminary works and documentation to plan compositions and develop and represent a point of view about the city. Some ideas include humankind’s relationship with the built environment, buildings as symbols of power and success, the beauty of structures, and the order or chaos of the city. They have experimented with a range of paint mediums and techniques to represent the different qualities of the city to an audience and have recorded these procedures in their Visual Arts diary.
Areas for Assessment
Outcomes
A student:
5.1 develops range and autonomy in selecting and applying visual arts conventions and procedures to make artworks
5.2 makes artworks informed by their understanding of the function of and relationships between artist - artwork - world - audience
5.3 makes artworks informed by an understanding of how the frames affect meaning
5.4 investigates the world as a source of ideas, concepts and subject matter in the visual arts
5.5 makes informed choices to develop and extend concepts and different meanings in their artworks
5.6 demonstrates developing technical accomplishment and refinement in making artworks
Criteria for assessing learning
(These criteria would normally be communicated to students with the activity.)
Students will be assessed on their:
- awareness of the conventions and practice of painting demonstrated through the selection and refinement of painting techniques
- understanding of the structural frame in the organisation of the composition and the manipulation of visual qualities such as colour, line, scale, tone and shape to create signs and symbols to communicate ideas about the city
- awareness of relationships between the agencies of the conceptual framework in communicating ideas about the city to an audience.