Twizel Area School
Visual Arts
The arts are powerful forms of expression that recognise, value, and contribute to the unique bicultural and multicultural character of Aotearoa New Zealand, enriching the lives of all New Zealanders. The arts have their own distinct languages that use both verbal and non-verbal conventions, mediated by selected processes and technologies.
Through engaging in the visual arts, students learn how to discern, participate in, and celebrate their own and others’ visual worlds. Visual arts learning begins with children’s curiosity and delight in their senses and stories and extends to the communication of complex ideas and concepts. An understanding of Māori visual culture is achieved through the exploration of Māori contexts. The arts of European, Pasifika, Asian, and other cultures add significant dimensions to New Zealand's visual culture.
In visual arts education, students develop visual literacy and aesthetic awareness as they manipulate and transform visual, tactile, and spatial ideas to solve problems. They explore experiences, stories, abstract concepts, social issues, and needs, both individually and collaboratively. They experiment with materials, using processes and conventions to develop visual enquiries and create static and time-based artworks. They view artworks, bringing their own experiences, sharing their responses, and generating multiple interpretations. As they develop their visual literacy, students are able to engage with a broader range of art experiences in increasingly complex and conscious ways.
The visual arts develop students’ conceptual thinking within a range of practices across drawing, sculpture, design, painting, printmaking, photography, and moving images. Art history may include a study of theories of the arts, architecture, and design. Theoretical investigations also inform practical enquiry. Opportunities to explore and communicate in the visual arts continue to expand as technologies and multi-disciplinary practices evolve.
At Twizel Area School we offer five Visual Art disciplines at Level 1 - 3:
- Painting
- Photography
- Printing
- Sculpture
- Art Design
For Level 1 and 2, you need to have experienced a Year 9/10 course and have a positive attitude towards Art. To take Level 3 Art, you need to have been successful at Level 2 in your chosen disciplines (minimum of 12 credits) or at the discretion of the Art teacher.
Courses in this Learning Area
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