St Josephs High School ABERDEEN

Year 11 Assessment Task Notification

SUBJECT: Visual Arts Weighting: 25% Task No: Date Due: Notification: 2 Friday 01/03/13

Course Outcomes: A student: P1 explores the conventions of practice in artmaking P2 explores the roles and relationships between the concepts of artist, artwork, world and audience P3 identifies the frames as the basis of understanding expressive representations in artmaking P4 investigates subject matter and forms as representations in artmaking P5 investigates ways of developing coherence and layers of meaning in the making of art Task Name: Practical Artmaking Dangerous Goods Task Description Dangerous Goods is a practical unit of work that explores everyday house hold images and items such as irons, fans, nail guns, power drills and other objects that create drama and unease using chiaroscuro and collage on different surfaces such as art quality paper, cardboard and brown paper/cardboard. The use of ink, charcoal, pencil is necessary. Design focused students are to use ICT and create Dangerous Goods artworks using Photoshop and movie making programs. These students will discuss ideas with the teacher before being approved to go ahead. For this task you are to create a collection (or BOW body of work) of artworks that create drama and unease using chiaroscuro and collage. Explorations of shadow, depth, volume, shape and perspective should also be evident. The work must consist of a minimum of two works and they can be presented together or separately. The works can use similar or different mediums and techniques. A VAPD must be kept and is part of your assessed mark. This diary should be kept during your artmaking and should include learned and practiced techniques, ideas, experiments and influences.

Marking Criteria: Marking Criteria Demonstrates outstanding technical accomplishment in body of work Demonstrates layered conceptual meaning in artworks Artworks are highly refined and resolved Visual Arts Diary clearly links with the body of work and includes all media experiments, formulation of ideas and intentions for artmaking Demonstrates a high level of technical accomplishment in body of work Demonstrates conceptual meaning in artworks Artworks are resolved Visual Arts Diary links with the body of work and includes media experiments, formulation of ideas and intentions for artmaking Demonstrates a sound level of technical accomplishment in body of work Demonstrates some conceptual meaning in artworks Artworks are resolved Visual Arts Diary has some documentation of learning Demonstrates a basic level of technical accomplishment in body of work Demonstrates an attempt at conceptual meanings in artworks Artworks are not resolved Visual Arts Diary has some documentation of learning Demonstrates a limited level of technical accomplishment in body of work Artworks are not resolved Visual Arts Diary not submitted

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