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Strand A: Creating and Presenting
Applying the creative process, design and a range of materials, and presenting art works (expectations A1 to A3). The museum maps one lesson: the materials, preparation and showing of works.
Strand B: Reflecting, Responding, and Analysing
Critical analysis of art works, how they reflect their society, and what visual arts offer in knowledge, skills and careers (expectations B1 to B3). The museum maps two lessons: three works read for use and society, and the calligrapher's craft.
- What a work was for, and whose world it shows A domed shrine, a glass mosaic and a written band on cloth, read for their materials, their use and the society that made them (B1.3, B2.1, B2.2). PlaceObjectInvention
- Learning a craft: the calligrapher How a calligrapher was trained and licensed, and who practises the art today (B3.1, B3.2). Careers × 2
Strand C: Foundations
Terminology, techniques, conventions and responsible practice in visual arts (expectations C1 to C3). The museum maps two lessons: the words for tools, materials and effects, and the vocabulary of pattern and convention.
- Words for tools, materials and effects The words book illuminators, calligraphers and tile-cutters used for their parts, tools and materials, and one effect made by cutting (C1.2, C2.1). InventionCareersObject
- Pattern and the conventions of ornament The arabesque as a way of describing line, shape and convention (C1.1, C2.2). Reflection