HSC Visual Arts Year 12 Notes

These are the 20 revision notes inside the HSC Visual Arts Mastery Pack. Open any note to see what it covers before you buy.

1. What NESA means by 'practice': agency, structures and judgement12 · HSC AOS1 — Practice in Artmaking, Art Criticism and Art History

   Practice as agency

2. Artmaking as a network of procedures: materials, processes, techniques, styles12 · HSC AOS1 — Practice in Artmaking, Art Criticism and Art History

   Artmaking practice

3. Telling art criticism and art history apart in your writing12 · HSC AOS1 — Practice in Artmaking, Art Criticism and Art History

   Art criticism vs art history

4. Subject matter and form: how representation is built in an artwork12 · HSC AOS1 — Practice in Artmaking, Art Criticism and Art History

   Representation

5. The 12 expressive forms and what each one lets an artist say12 · HSC AOS1 — Practice in Artmaking, Art Criticism and Art History

   Expressive forms

6. The artist as agency: assigned and assumed roles across time and place12 · HSC AOS2 — The Conceptual Framework: Agencies in the Artworld

   Artist

7. The artwork as agency: material, virtual, physical and symbolic properties12 · HSC AOS2 — The Conceptual Framework: Agencies in the Artworld

   Artwork

8. The world as agency — and why it is not the cultural frame12 · HSC AOS2 — The Conceptual Framework: Agencies in the Artworld

   World

9. The audience as agency: critics, curators, publics and changing reception12 · HSC AOS2 — The Conceptual Framework: Agencies in the Artworld

   Audience

10. The subjective frame: feeling, imagination and intersubjective meaning12 · HSC AOS3 — The Frames

    Subjective frame

11. The cultural frame: ideology, identity, class, gender and social meaning12 · HSC AOS3 — The Frames

    Cultural frame

12. The structural frame: signs, codes, symbols and visual language12 · HSC AOS3 — The Frames

    Structural frame

13. The postmodern frame: intertextuality, appropriation, irony and critique12 · HSC AOS3 — The Frames

    Postmodern frame

14. Layering two or more frames on one artwork without contradicting yourself12 · HSC AOS3 — The Frames

    Frames in combination

15. Building five HSC case studies that cover practice, framework and frames12 · HSC AOS4 — Case Studies in Art Criticism and Art History

    Case study design

16. Reading an unseen plate fast: the Section I 5, 8 and 12-mark method12 · HSC AOS4 — Case Studies in Art Criticism and Art History

    Unseen plate analysis

17. Structuring the 25-mark Section II essay around an informed point of view12 · HSC AOS4 — Case Studies in Art Criticism and Art History

    Extended response

18. Choosing and deploying specific artists and artworks as evidence12 · HSC AOS4 — Case Studies in Art Criticism and Art History

    Evidence and examples

19. Coherence, conceptual strength and resolution across a body of work12 · HSC AOS5 — The Body of Work and the Visual Arts Process Diary

    Body of work

20. Using the Visual Arts Process Diary as evidence of sustained practice12 · HSC AOS5 — The Body of Work and the Visual Arts Process Diary

    Process diary