This AVI4M online course focuses on enabling students in AVI4M to refine their use of the creative process when creating and presenting two- and three-dimensional art works using a variety of traditional and emerging media and technologies. Students in AVI4M will use the critical analysis process to deconstruct art works and explore connections between art and society. AVI4M enables students to explore a range of materials, processes, and techniques that can be applied in their own AVI4M art production. Students will also make connections between various works of art in personal, contemporary, historical, and cultural contexts.
Course curriculum
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The Grade 12 art credit and a portfolio to show for it
An M credit for fine arts, design, illustration, animation and architecture applicants, ending with a professional portfolio that documents your growth across the course.
Four studio pieces in four media
A natural-object abstraction in drawing, a 2D/3D mixed media piece, a social-issues assemblage in sculpture, and a public-art painting, each observed and critiqued by your teacher.
Critical analysis, not just making
Deconstruct art works with the critical analysis process, connect them to the society that produced them, and write a planning and critique reflection after each piece.
Conversations with a working art teacher
Every studio unit pairs the piece with a conversation and written reflection, and the course closes with an oral interview about your portfolio and the challenges you worked through.
AVI4M Course outline
Full unit-by-unit breakdown.
Review the elements and principles of design, visual arts terminology and conventions, and the creative process of planning, revising, experimenting and creating. Explore local and global art opportunities and careers, and develop colour theory, drawing and mark-making techniques.
Key topics
Elements and principles of design · terminology and conventions · the creative process · colour theory, drawing and mark making · careers in visual arts
Assessed by
Elements and principles quiz · natural object abstraction (drawing, observed)
Explore why artists work in mixed media and practise techniques across 2D and 3D pieces and presentation, and examine how media and presentation shape a work’s impact on its audience, while continuing to analyse your own work and the work of others.
Key topics
Mixed media techniques · 2D and 3D combinations · presentation · analysing your own and others’ work
Assessed by
Mixed media creation piece · conversation and written reflection
Explore sculpture and the expression of the 3D form through additive and subtractive techniques, and examine how media and structure affect a work of art, creating an assemblage that responds to a social issue.
Key topics
Additive and subtractive sculpture · assemblage · form and structure · art and social issues
Assessed by
Social issue assemblage · conversation and written reflection
Explore painting and the purposes of different paints, practise techniques across a variety of styles and presentation approaches, and examine how paint and presentation shape a work’s effect on a public audience.
Key topics
Paint types and their uses · painting styles and techniques · public art · presentation
Assessed by
Public art painting · conversation and written reflection
Apply the techniques and skills of the course to a final piece, assemble a professional portfolio documenting your growth as an artist, and analyse the challenges you faced in a written reflection and oral interview.
Key topics
Final cumulative piece · professional portfolio · written reflection · oral interview
Assessed by
Culminating task: final piece, portfolio and reflection (15%)
