Contexts in Senior Visual Art

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Question established conventions and ideas

Use non-traditional materials and new technologies

Work against traditional practices

Borrow imagery through appropriation

Use parody and irony to present current concerns

Stimulate reactions through sensory experiences

Appeal to viewers through prior experiences and knowledge

Explore the artists personal journey, memories, beliefs and values

Develop through the artists imagination, fantasy and dreams

Share human and psychological experiences and emotions

Emphasise process, elements, principles, materials and media

Rely on aesthetic knowledge and experience

Represent ideas as a system of symbolic objects, motifs or signs

Identify cultural influences on the artist

Reflect community interests through social commentary

Question cultural and social roles

Explore spiritual and religious traditions

Exist in a historical framework

(history, religion, politics, ethnicity, gender, social class, age)

Artworks viewed and created through these CONTEXTS typically:

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Contemporary

Personal

Formal

Cultural