Visual Arts Learning Examples

The following learning examples appear under Unwrapping the Arts - The Visual Arts which can be accessed on the Te Kete Ipurangi - The Online Learning Centre website (http://www.tki.org.nz/e/arts/visarts/visarts_home.php) or in The Arts in the New Zealand Curriculum document. This is only a small selection of what is offered. You may also decide to use Discover to support learning examples other than those listed below.

• Level 2: Paper Weaving
• Level 3: Self-portrait - Identity
• Level 4: Poster Design
• Level 5: Landscape
• Level 6: National Icons in New Zealand Art
• Level 7: Architectural Design
• Level 8: Photography
• NCEA Achievement Standard Examples

 Level 2 Learning Example: Paper Weaving

http://www.tki.org.nz/e/community/arts/visarts/visarts_L2/visarts_L2_A2_menu.php
"Look at a variety of woven objects (e.g. kete, mats, cloaks) and talk about their purpose, their significance and ways they were made. Use paper to experiment with weaving methods and select a variety of papers to weave a personalised mat for sitting on in the classroom." (UC PK, DI, CI)

Discover Resource

Use the Discover topic, Traditional Māori Arts as a resource for this learning example. Here you will find many images depicting traditional Māori plaiting and weaving, both the process and the finished object.

 Level 3 Learning Example: Self-portrait - Identity

http://www.tki.org.nz/e/arts/visarts/visarts_L3/visarts_L3_A2_menu.php
"Use photographs, photocopies, images, and selected opaque and transparent materials to create a composite, mixed-media image reflecting personal identity or self-concept. Look at and compare how artists have expressed ideas about themselves in still life, portrait paintings and in photographs." (PK, DI, CI)

Discover Resource

Use the Discover topic, Portraiture as a resource for this learning example. Examples of New Zealand portraits in a variety of styles and techniques) can be found here.

 Level 4 Learning Example: Poster Design

http://www.tki.org.nz/e/arts/visarts/visarts_L4/visarts_L4_A3_menu.php
"Explore the design conventions used in posters on a particular theme. Discuss the use of image and text, the relationship between them and the ways they are used to communicate ideas. Design a poster to convey ideas on the same theme, using appropriate layout considerations to organise the text and images." (PK, DI, CI)

Discover Resource

Use the Discover topic, Posters as a resource for this learning example. Many examples of New Zealand's poster heritage are available here.

 Level 5 Learning Example: Landscape

"Investigate and discuss the compositions and techniques of one or more artists from New Zealand who use the landscape as their subject matter. Analyse and comment on the ideas and concepts expressed in the works studied." (IC)

Discover Resource

Use the Discover topic, 18th and 19th century New Zealand Art as a resource for this learning example. Here you will find a wide range of heritage artworks depicting the New Zealand landscape.

 Level 6 Learning Example: National Icons in New Zealand Art

"Identify a range of national icons in New Zealand art and explore the meanings associated with them. Use selected images in designing a tourist brochure for the overseas market." (UC, DI)

Discover Resource

Use the following Discover topics, 18th and 19th century New Zealand Art and Posters as resources for this example.

 Level 7 Learning Example: Architectural Design

"In response to a brief to design a structure or set for an outdoor event or theatre performance, research examples of architectural and spatial design. Develop scale drawings, colour studies, elevation plans, and models of an appropriate structure for the performance or event. Present a final scale model of the structure and site as a proposed solution." (CI, PK, DI)

Discover Resource

Use the Discover topic Architecture as a resource for this learning example. Here you'll find a range of photographs depicting aspects and styles of New Zealand Architecture both historical and contemporary.

 Level 8 Learning Example: Photography

"Research the subject matter and ideas used in the works of a contemporary New Zealand photographer and those of a photographer from another time or place. Investigate and compare how photographic methods and technologies influence the ways in which each photographer treats their subject matter. Create a series of photographic works that explores concepts of time and place and that combines images, ideas, and technologies derived from the work of the two photographers studied." (UC, CI, PK, DI)

Discover Resource

Use the Discover topic Photography as a resource for this learning example. Here you will find a range of photographs by prominent New Zealand photographers both historical and contemporary.

 NCEA Achievement Standard Examples

A few relevant NCEA achievement standards examples include;

• Visual Arts 1.1
• Visual Arts 2.1
• Art History 2.1
• Art History 3.5

Visual Arts 1.1

Level 1: Research art and artworks from Māori and European traditions and their contexts

http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/ncea/ach/visualarts/AS90018.doc
"This achievement standard involves researching art and artworks from Māori and European traditions to make comment, using art terminology, on art and artworks in relation to their local or contemporary contexts. As such, it aims to acknowledge the bicultural nature of New Zealand art and society."

Students "should investigate art and artworks by contemporary artists that reflect Māori and European influences and contexts. [They] could also investigate art and artworks by a number of artists from other cultures."

Discover Resource

Use the Discover topic, Traditional Māori Arts as a resource for this example Here you will find a range of traditional Māori artworks.

Note: The above material (kowhaiwhai design) is also relevant at lower levels as a UC, DI and CI resource. It can also be used for Mathematics for example;

• Level 4 Geometry, Exploring symmetry and transformations
  Describing the symmetry (reflection and rotational) in patterns, objects, and design (frieze patterns, kowhaiwhai, wrapping paper, stained-glass window designs."

Visual Arts 2.1

Level 2: Research information, methods and ideas in the context of a drawing study in (painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, design)

http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/ncea/ach/arthistory/AS90228.doc
"This achievement standard involves researching information and ideas relating to art and artworks, and applying them in the context of a drawing study. It also involves the use of drawing materials, tools, techniques and processes appropriate to purpose in that context. (UC PK, DI, CI)

Discover Resource

Use the Discover topic, 20th Century Art and the Practice of Drawing as a resource for this example Here you will find a range of examples of Artists' drawings and sketch work.

Art History 2.1

Level 2

http://www.minedu.govt.nz/web/downloadable/dl4768_v1/Art%20History%202%2E1.doc
This achievement standard involves analysis of art works through the descriptions of the key characteristics of selected art works and the effects of these characteristics in different art works.

"Assessment for this achievement standard will be based on the following four areas of study:

• Māori art/taonga (traditional and contemporary)
• art in Aotearoa (nineteenth century to the present)
• French art (neo-classicism to post-impressionism)
• architecture (New Zealand and international contexts - neo-classicism to post-modernism)."

Discover Resource

Use the following Discover topics, Traditional Māori Arts, Architecture, Post Modernism, 18th and 19th century New Zealand Art as a resource for this example.

Art History 3.5

Level 3 : Depicting New Zealand: natural icons in art

http://www.tki.org.nz/r/ncea/arthist3_5Ev1_30nov01.doc
"The student will research four art works which depict a natural icon of New Zealand (a geographical feature which has achieved iconic status nationally). The works may be selected from a range of media."

Discover Resource

Use the Discover topic 18th and 19th century New Zealand Art as a resource for this example. Here you will find a number of depictions of New Zealand natural icons including the Pink and White Terraces, Mt Taranaki, and Rangitoto, among others.