Scope and Sequence: Year 8 Visual Arts 2014
Unit
Time/
Duration
Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4
Term 1
Term 2
Term 3
Term 4
Name of Unit
Self & Surface
Tribal
The Party
Urban Environment
Concepts
In class
activities and
Homework
Frames: Structural
Agencies: Artwork/Artist
Frames: Cultural
Agencies: The World/Audience
Frames: Subjective
Agencies: Artist/Artwork
Frames: Post Modern
Agencies: Audience/ World
Exposition & activities– key content
areas
Structural Frame activity
Drawing- observation, objects
Drawing - Proportion, people
Critical/historical study, - Picasso
Surface exploration, materials
Historical study - Cubism
Mixed Media Painting
Cultural Frame activity
Design processes referencing
elements & principles – line, shape,
repetition, balance
Cultural designs & their symbolism
Tattoo & body art
Printmaking techniques
Block printing and stamps –
demonstration & practice
Printed wall hanging
Subjective Frame activity
Drawing of party food and
decorations
Discussion of popular themes
Historical Study - analysis – Pop Art
Pop Art techniques, material practice
Exploration of shape and form,
overlapping, textural surface,
stamping, marbling, stencilling
Styles of text, graffiti
Critical Study – Frank Stella, analysis
Relief techniques
Critical/ Historical Study – Joan Miro
works
Post Modern Frame activity
Drawing – observation, imagined,
referenced
Material practice
Perspective drawings of environment
Critical Study - Analysis -Mambo
Suburban symbols & icons
Comprehension & drawing – Arkley
Multi- media presentation - &
discussion – Gaudi
Material practice – Hundterwasserinspired urban design
Painting/ drawing
Homework – activity sheets
elements & principles of design
Homework – activity sheets elements
& principles
Homework – activity sheets, natural
and manmade shapes, colour, texture
Assessments Research – Analysis -Archibald
Prize – 30%
Visual Arts Diary -20%
Mixed Media Artwork – 50%
Learning
Conceptual Framework, The
Areas
Frames, and Practice (Key Content)
Research – Tribal culture/Scaffolded
Task – 30%
Visual Arts Diary -20%
Wall Hanging – 50%
The Cultural Frame
Defining Signs, Symbols
Research- Multimedia Presentation,
Claes Oldenburg – 30%
Visual Arts Diary -20%
Relief Sculpture – 50%
Subjective Frame
Popular Culture
Homework – google map search of
targeted structures locally & globally
Research – Timeline Architectural
Forms, Design Process – 30%
Visual Arts Diary -20%
Painting/Drawing – 50%
Post Modern Frame
Architectural forms & structures
Structural Frame
Elements of Design
Drawing techniques
Mixed Media practice & form
Material exploration
Critical/historical study – Archibald
Prize
Reporting
Stems
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Critical/Historical Study design in:
Aboriginal, Maori, Pacific Islands,
Africa
Design process & experimentation
Printmaking techniques
Interprets subject matter from different viewpoints.
Understands the ways artworks are made within cultural and
historical contexts.
Structures artworks using a range of skills, techniques and
processes.
Uses materials and techniques to give form to their ideas.
Pop Art
Perspective – 2d, 3d, aerial
Defining styles in painting
Painting techniques
Critical/ Historical Study – Frank
Critical Study – Mambo Graphics
Stella
Historical Study – Howard Arkley &
Drawing & Painting Techniques
Antonio Gaudi
Pop Art techniques
Drawing & photographic
Use of text in art
representations local environment
Critical/ Historical Study – Joan Miro
Critical Study – Hundterwasser
Defining Sculptural techniques, forms techniques & practice
& terms
Painting/drawing urban environment
Relief Sculpture
 Utilises aspects of the world as a source of concepts and subject
matter.
 Explores different meanings and functions in art criticism and history.
 Uses a range of techniques to explore different artmaking
conventions.
 Uses the frames to develop artmaking ideas and concepts