Visual Arts flashcards

What this deck covers

• Unit 3: Art as knowledge (42 cards, 17 dot points)

  • Aesthetic and audience engagement in QCE Visual Art Unit 3 (2)
  • Analysing and interpreting artworks in QCE Visual Art Unit 3 (2)
  • Artist, artwork and audience in QCE Visual Art Unit 3 (2)
  • Conceptual and material experimentation in QCE Visual Art Unit 3 (4)
  • IA1 Investigation, inquiry phase 1, in QCE Visual Art Unit 3 (2)
  • IA2 Project, inquiry phase 2, in QCE Visual Art Unit 3 (2)
  • Making and responding as interconnected modes in QCE Visual Art Unit 3 (2)
  • Materials, technologies and processes in QCE Visual Art Unit 3 (2)
  • Reflecting on and evaluating an inquiry in QCE Visual Art Unit 3 (4)
  • Researching artists and contexts to inform inquiry in QCE Visual Art Unit 3 (4)
  • Stimulus, focus and the two concepts in QCE Visual Art Unit 3 (2)
  • The artist as inquirer: framing a self-directed inquiry question in QCE Visual Art Unit 3 (4)
  • The contemporary context in QCE Visual Art Unit 3 (2)
  • The cultural context in QCE Visual Art Unit 3 (2)
  • The formal context in QCE Visual Art Unit 3 (2)
  • The personal context in QCE Visual Art Unit 3 (2)
  • Visual language: elements and principles in QCE Visual Art Unit 3 (2)
• Unit 4: Art as alternate (18 cards, 6 dot points)

  • Art as alternate and innovation in QCE Visual Art Unit 4 (4)
  • IA3 Project, inquiry phase 3, in QCE Visual Art Unit 4 (2)
  • Refining practice and the resolved project in QCE Visual Art Unit 4 (4)
  • Responding in the external examination for QCE Visual Art Unit 4 (4)
  • Synthesising and resolving the body of work in QCE Visual Art Unit 4 (2)
  • The artist statement and evidence of inquiry in QCE Visual Art Unit 4 (2)

Sample cards from this deck

1. Definition

   Conceptual and material experimentation in QCE Visual Art Unit 3

   Define Concept-led experiments

   You start from an idea or meaning and ask how to make it visible. If your inquiry concerns surveillance, you might test whether obscuring a face with overlaid grids reads as protection or as threat. The variable is meaning.

2. Definition

   Art as alternate and innovation in QCE Visual Art Unit 4

   Define New knowledge

   A new artist, theory or context that reframes what your inquiry could mean.

3. Definition

   Reflecting on and evaluating an inquiry in QCE Visual Art Unit 3

   Define Artworks and experiments

   Did the outcome make the meaning you intended? What worked visually, and what undercut the meaning?

4. Definition

   Refining practice and the resolved project in QCE Visual Art Unit 4

   Define Develop

   Frame and refine the focus and inquiry question.

5. Definition

   Researching artists and contexts to inform inquiry in QCE Visual Art Unit 3

   Define Contemporary context

   What current ideas, issues or practices does the work engage? How does it speak to now?

6. Definition

   Responding in the external examination for QCE Visual Art Unit 4

   Define Analyse

   Identify how the visual language works: the elements (line, shape, tone, colour, texture, space) and principles (balance, contrast, rhythm, emphasis, scale) and the materials and processes. Analysis is precise observation of how the work is constructed.

7. Definition

   The artist as inquirer: framing a self-directed inquiry question in QCE Visual Art Unit 3

   Define Open

   It has more than one possible resolution. A question with a single yes or no answer cannot drive an extended body of work.

8. Key fact

   IA3 Project, inquiry phase 3, in QCE Visual Art Unit 4

   Tell me about Consolidating the inquiry

   By IA3 the inquiry is complete, so the Project consolidates rather than starts. The focus established in IA1 and developed through IA2 reaches its resolution here, now extended across the second concept.

9. Key fact

   Aesthetic and audience engagement in QCE Visual Art Unit 3

   Tell me about Aesthetic is not the same as beautiful

   A frequent error is to treat aesthetic as a synonym for beautiful or pleasing. In art, aesthetic simply names the felt quality of the experience, which can be harsh, disturbing, austere or ugly by design.

10. Key fact

    Synthesising and resolving the body of work in QCE Visual Art Unit 4

    Tell me about Synthesis of existing and new knowledge

    Synthesis is the fusion of what you researched (existing knowledge from artists, practices and contexts) with what you discovered through your own making (new knowledge from experimentation and innovation).