Visual Arts - Year 10 · Stage 4-5

Art and Ideas

How art thinks: the concepts that artworks carry and the ways they argue.

Dot points
8
Module
2 of 3
Course
Visual Arts - Year 10
01What this module asks of you

The 8 syllabus dot points in Art and Ideas

These are the statements the Visual Arts - Year 10 syllabus makes about Art and Ideas. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.

  1. 01

    Art as argument

    Art as argument - Art and Ideas, Year 10.

  2. 02

    Representation and the politics of the image

    Representation and the politics of the image - Art and Ideas, Year 10.

  3. 03

    Memory, place and identity

    Memory, place and identity - Art and Ideas, Year 10.

  4. 04

    The body in art

    The body in art - Art and Ideas, Year 10.

  5. 05

    Environment and the Anthropocene

    Environment and the Anthropocene - Art and Ideas, Year 10.

  6. 06

    Technology and the image

    Technology and the image - Art and Ideas, Year 10.

  7. 07

    Humour, irony and critique

    Humour, irony and critique - Art and Ideas, Year 10.

  8. 08

    The ethics of representing others

    The ethics of representing others - Art and Ideas, Year 10.

02How it is examined

What a Art and Ideas question asks you to do

Year 10 Assessment Task Shape is 50 marks in 75 minutes. Questions on Art and Ideas are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones Visual Arts - Year 10 uses.

analyse2–3design3–5discuss5–6explain3–4identify1

Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.

03Where this module sits

Art and Ideas in the Visual Arts - Year 10 course

Art and Ideas is module 2 of 3 in Visual Arts - Year 10. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.

Find the Art and Ideas dot points you have never been asked

Dux diagnoses Visual Arts - Year 10 dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.