Wednesday, 11 September 2024VISUAL ARTS
CURRICULUM AIMS
S1-S3
- To develop students’ perceptual abilities, with special emphasis on visual, aesthetic, and arts experiences;
- To enable students to express personal feelings and thoughts through artistic presentations;
- To develop students’ visual cognition, generic skills, and metacognition through art making, appreciation, and criticism;
- To broaden students’ perspectives through exploration of the arts of diverse cultures; and
- To cultivate students’ emotions, personal refinement, morals, and sense of commitment towards the nation and the world.
S4-S6
- To enrich students’ aesthetics and arts experiences;
- To strengthen students’ abilities to appreciate and create various forms of visual arts work aesthetically and critically;
- To develop perceptual abilities, generic skills, multiple perspectives, and metacognition through autonomous and open-ended processes of enquiry in art learning;
- To enhance cultural and cross-cultural understanding through exploration of the art of diverse cultures;
- To cultivate personal refinement, positive values and attitudes, self-identity, and a sense of commitment towards the community, the nation and the world; and
- To acquire a foundation for pursuing education and career opportunities in the art and creative industries.
Students may use a variety of visual arts media and forms to express their ideas and feelings. Due to the development of new materials and technologies for making shapes, forms and concepts of presentation, new visual arts media and forms such as video art, digital art, web art, installation art, environmental art, and conceptual art continue to emerge. Students should be provided with opportunities to enhance their artistic presentation abilities as they experience and explore different materials, techniques, and media to produce alternative forms of visual arts.
Junior Forms (2 periods per cycle)
| S1 | Drawing / Painting / Chinese Art / Art Appreciation |
| S2 | Design / Print Making / Chinese Art / Art Appreciation |
| S3 | 3D Art / Sculpture / Mixed Media Art / Chinese Art / Art Appreciation |
Senior Forms (6 periods per cycle)
| S4 | · Art Making Experiment in various media · SBA: Build up the Research Workbook, Art Making with the selected Theme · Visual Presentation of a Theme · Art Appreciation and Criticism · Art Visit |
| S5 | · Art Making Experiment in various media · SBA: Build up the Research Workbook, Art Making with the selected Theme · Visual Presentation of a Theme · Art Appreciation and Criticism · Art Visit |
| S6 | · Art Making Experiment in various media · SBA: Build up the Research Workbook, Art Making with the selected Theme · Visual Presentation of a Theme · Art Appreciation and Criticism · Art Visit |
ASSESSMENT DESIGN
| LEVEL | COMPONENT | PART | DURATION |
| 1 | Art Folder which includes Art Making Process and Art Appreciation (50%) | Theme Development, Artist Research, Medium Experiment | Formative Assessment Whole Term |
| Artwork (50%) | Based on a theme with guided medium | Whole Term | |
| 2 | Art Folder which includes Art Making Process and Art Appreciation (50%) | Theme Development, Artist Research, Medium Experiment | Formative Assessment Whole Term |
| Artwork (50%) | Based on a theme with guided medium | Whole Term | |
| 3 | Art Folder which includes Art Making Process and Art Appreciation (50%) | Theme Development, Artist Research, Medium Experiment | Formative Assessment Whole Term |
| Artwork (50%) | Based on a theme with guided medium | Whole Term | |
| 4 | Art making experiment (40%) | 2D Art / 3D Art / Digital Art / Design / Art Criticism | Formative Assessment Whole Term |
| Art Appreciation and Criticism (10%) | Coursework | ||
| School Based Assessment (30%) | Research Workbook (40%) Artwork (60%) | ||
| Interim Examination / Final Examination (20%) | ONE portfolio which should consist of: (a) Research workbook (40%) (b) Artworks (60%) | 4 hours | |
| 5 | Medium Experiment (20%) | 2D Art / 3D Art / Digital Art / Design | Whole Term |
| School Based Assessment (30%) | ONE portfolio which should consist of: (a) Research workbook (40%) (b) Artworks (60%) | Whole Term | |
| Interim Examination / Final Examination (30%) | Art Criticism (20%) Visual Presentation of a Theme (80%) | 4 hours | |
| 6 | Medium Experiment (10%) | 2D Art / 3D Art / Digital Art / Design / Art Criticism | Whole Term |
| School Based Assessment (50%) | ONE portfolio which should consist of: (a) Research workbook (40%) (b) Artworks (60%) | Whole Term | |
| Interim Examination /Final Examination (40%) | Art Criticism (20%) Visual Presentation of a Theme (80%) | 4 hours |
** Please refer to the HKEAA website for the updated SBA requirement of the subject:
Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority – Subject Information on SBA (hkeaa.edu.hk)