Free WACE Year 11 Visual Arts Flashcard Review
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Name five kinds of difference that Unit 1 invites you to explore.
Cultural diversity, place, gender, class and historical period; also differences in art forms, media and conventions.
What does a representational drawing aim to do?
Record how a subject looks through careful observation, proportion and tone.
How does an expressive drawing carry meaning?
Through the speed, pressure and direction of its marks, which convey feeling.
What makes a drawing decorative?
It enriches a surface with pattern, repetition and ornament.
What is a symbolic drawing?
One that uses signs or images that stand for ideas, such as a broken fence for division.
What are the three actions involved in documenting research?
Collecting material, compiling (organising) it, and recording your thinking through annotation.
What turns a descriptive annotation into a reflective one?
It explains what was tried, why, what happened and what you will do next.
List the seven elements of art.
Line, colour, shape, texture, space, value (tone) and form.
Name four principles of art.
Any four of unity, balance, hierarchy, scale, proportion, emphasis, similarity, repetition and contrast.
Define appropriation.
Intentionally borrowing, copying and altering existing images or objects in a new context or for a new meaning.
What four things should an artist statement describe?
Ideas, meaning, influences and personal direction.
Primary versus secondary visual influence?
Primary: encountered first-hand, such as a place drawn or a work seen in person. Secondary: encountered through reproduction, such as a book or website.
What does formal analysis examine?
How the elements and principles of art are organised in a composition and what effects they create.
List the four Feldman stages in order, as practised in this hub.
Description, analysis, interpretation, judgement.
What are the four Taylor headings, as practised in this hub?
Content, form, process and mood.
Name the Four Frames.
Subjective, structural, cultural and postmodern.
Which frame reads a work through society, class, gender, politics and identity?
The cultural frame.
Which four frameworks does SCSA recommend?
STICI, Taylor, Feldman and the Four Frames.
Name four contextual factors listed for analysis.
Any four of time, place, race, culture, gender identity, religion and politics.
Difference between an objective and a subjective response?
Objective statements can be checked against the work; subjective statements give opinion or feeling and should be supported with evidence.