Key Themes
This educational resource highlights how the artwork in the Howard Hinton collection represents the beginning of a new Australian identity, artistic movement, the role of women and Indigenous Australians during the early 20th century. It includes guiding questions, artists of focus alongside art making activities.
Key themes explored include:
- Australian Identity
- Australian Impressionism
- Indigenous Australians
- The Role of Women
Curriculum Links
Curriculum Links Early Stage 1 – 3
This resource is designed with the creative arts, visual arts K-6 syllabus in mind involves both making and appreciating visual arts. NERAM considers inclusion of perspectives in visual arts considering issues related to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. NERAM draws attention to Australia’s identity through the Hinton Collection and how there is limited Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and peoples represented. NERAM considers issues related to gender, identifying the role of women in the early 20th century and the artwork women artists made at this time.
| Creative Arts Outcomes:
Curriculum Links: Early Stage 1 |
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Appreciating
VAES1.3: Recognises some of the qualities of different artworks and begins to realise that artists make artworks.
VAES1.4: Communicates their ideas about pictures and other kinds of artworks. |
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Making
VAES1.1: Makes simple pictures and other kinds of artworks about things and experiences.
VAES1.2: Experiments with a range of media in selected forms. |
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Curriculum Links: Stage 1 |
| Appreciating
VAS1.3: Realises what artists do, who they are and what they make.
VAS1.4: Begins to interpret the meaning of artworks, acknowledging the role of artist and audience. |
| Making
VAS1.1: Makes artworks in a particular way about experiences of real and imaginary things.
VAS1.2: Uses the forms to make artworks according to varying requirements. |
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Curriculum Links: Stage 2
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| Appreciating
VAS2.3: Acknowledges that artists make artworks for different reasons and that various interpretations are possible.
VAS2.4: Identifies connections between subject matter in artworks and what they refer to and appreciates the use of particular techniques. |
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Making
VAS2.1: Represents the qualities of experiences and things that are interesting or beautiful by choosing among aspects of subject matter.
VAS2.2: Uses the forms to suggest the qualities of subject matter. |
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Curriculum Links: Stage 3
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| Appreciating
VAS3.3: Acknowledges that audiences respond in different ways to artworks and that there are different opinions about the value of artworks.
VAS3.4: Communicates about the ways in which subject matter is represented in artworks. |
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Making
VAS3.1: Investigates subject matter in an attempt to represent likenesses of things in the world.
VAS3.2: Makes artworks for different audiences assembling materials in a variety of ways. |
This program was funded by the NSW Government.
