Unit 3: Collect, extend and connect

4 dot points across 3 inquiry questions, in syllabus order. Each dot point has a focused answer, with exam-style questions and worked answers where available.

Area of Study 1 (Collect: inspirations, influences and images): How do artists use selected art forms and ideas to create visual language?

Key knowledge (Unit 3 Outcome 1): the use of art elements, art principles and aesthetic qualities in artworks in specific art forms, and methods used to communicate ideas using visual language

The vocabulary the exam and journal both rely on: art elements (colour, line, shape, form, tone, texture, sound, time and light), art principles (such as emphasis, movement, contrast, balance, space and scale), aesthetic qualities, and how artists combine them into visual language that communicates ideas, with a method for analysing an unseen artwork.

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Outcome 1: collect information from artists and artworks in specific art forms to develop subject matter and ideas in their own art making

How to meet Unit 3 Outcome 1 of VCE Art Making and Exhibiting: researching three artists, developing subject matter and ideas from influences, inspirations and personal experience, experimenting with materials, techniques and processes, and documenting it all in your Visual Arts journal for the School-assessed Task.

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Area of Study 2 (Extend: make, critique and reflect): How are ideas, reflection and feedback used in art making to develop artworks?

Outcome 2: make artworks in specific art forms, prepare and present a critique, and reflect on feedback

How to meet Unit 3 Outcome 2: making artworks that integrate influences and develop an individual style, preparing a critique (limited to 10 journal pages and at least two artworks), gathering feedback, and writing the required 1000 to 1500 word reflection with visual information for the School-assessed Task.

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Area of Study 3 (Connect: curate, design and propose): How are artworks selected and presented for exhibition?

Outcome 3: research and plan an exhibition of the artworks of three artists

How to meet Unit 3 Outcome 3, the School-assessed Coursework task worth 5% of the study score: the role of the curator, characteristics of exhibitions and exhibition spaces, curatorial intention and considerations, selecting two artworks by each of your three artists, and writing didactic information.

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