NCEA Level 2 Art - Painting
Course Description
Teacher in Charge: K. Watkins.
Students will produce a systematic body of work that synthesizes artistic conventions and regenerates a depth of ideas. This involves critically selecting and integrating methods from established artists and sources to refine and extend their artistic concepts. Emphasizing development within the art-making process, students will engage in editing, selecting, and ordering works to demonstrate progression and evolution.
Key Learning Outcomes:
- Systematic Body of Work: Develop related works forming a series or sequence that illustrates progression and development.
- Synthesis of Conventions: Integrate characteristics and constraints appropriate to painting, adapting them to fit creative contexts.
- In-depth Knowledge Application: Critically select and utilize processes, materials, techniques, and pictorial conventions to achieve intended artistic outcomes.
- Drawing Methods: Utilize various media, techniques, and processes to arrange elements and principles such as line, shape, space, colour, tone, texture, balance, harmony, rhythm, tension, and contrast.
Course Outcome:
By the course's conclusion, students will have developed a refined portfolio that reflects their growth as painters.
Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
External
NZQA Info
Visual Arts 2.2 - Use drawing methods to apply knowledge of conventions appropriate to painting
NZQA Info
Visual Arts 2.4 - Produce a systematic body of work that shows understanding of art making conventions and ideas within painting
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Disclaimer
For NCEA Levels 1, 2 & 3 courses will be made up of a selection of the stated standards. This will happen at the beginning of the year with the assigned teacher.