Visual Arts
It is the aim of the Art department at HKUGAC to provide a vibrant, creative and thought provoking environment in which students can feel confident and empowered to learn, create explore and imagine.
Aims and purposes of visual art
Visual art offers opportunities for pupils to:
- develop their creativity and imagination through visual, tactile and sensory experiences;
- develop practical, technical and critical skills and use visual and tactile language to communicate their ideas, feelings and meanings;
- learn to make value judgements and aesthetic and practical decisions, becoming actively involved in shaping environments;
- explore ideas and meanings in the work of artists, craftspeople and designers and learn about the diverse roles and functions of art, craft and design in the contemporary world and in different times and cultures.
Content of visual arts at S1,S2 and S3
In visual arts pupils develop skills in order to be able to:
- explore and develop ideas;
- investigate and make art, craft and design;
- evaluate and develop work.
They acquire and apply knowledge and understanding of:
- the visual and tactile qualities of materials and processes and how these can be manipulated and matched to ideas, purposes and audiences;
- codes and conventions and how these are used to represent ideas, beliefs and values in works of art, craft and design;
- continuity and change in the purposes and audiences of artists, craftspeople and designers from China and the wider world.
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