AVI 4M

Visual Arts: AVI 4M
This course focuses on the refinement of students’ skills and knowledge in visual arts. Students will analyse art forms; use theories of art in analysing and producing art; and increase their understanding of stylistic changes in modern and contemporary Western art, Canadian (including Native Canadian) art, and art forms from various parts of the world.

Students will produce a body of work demonstrating a personal approach.

This course focuses on these key expectations from the Ministry of Education’s curriculum:

* use a wide range of appropriate terminology related to all areas of art theory to describe art works, crafts, and applied design forms.

* demonstrate an understanding of modern and contemporary art, especially Canadian (including Native Canadian) art, as well as African, Oceanic, and Central and South American art.

* produce a body of art work, using the stages of the creative process.

* document and evaluate their creative process and art works, using portfolios.

* analyse and evaluate modern and contemporary Western works of art, as well as selected works of fine art, works in applied design, and works in crafts from African, Oceanic, Central and South American, and emerging art communities.

Your final mark will be calculated based on the Ministry of Education’s Achievement Chart for this course as follows:

Knowledge/Understanding: 20%; Thinking/Inquiry: 20%; Communication: 10%; Application: 50%