NCEA Level 2 Visual Arts case studies
NCEA Level 2 Visual Arts · Put your knowledge to work in context.
NCEA Level 2 Visual Arts is the Level 2 band of the Visual Arts achievement standards within the New Zealand National Certificates of Educational Achievement, administered by NZQA and aligned to The Arts learning area of the New Zealand Curriculum. It suits Year 12 students and other learners who are building a body of practical and critical work in the visual arts, and who want their artistic thinking recognised towards NCEA Level 2 and beyond. The NCEA Level 2 Visual Arts case studies are 5 cases and about 3,857 words.
1Eight Graphite Studies and the Painting Convention Gap
Year 12 painting candidate Mere has spent six weeks on a drawing folio for the Level 2 painting drawing standard. Her workbook holds eight A3 graphite studies of the same corner of her family kitchen: a chrome tap, a chipped mug, and a window with a net curtain.
822 words, about 4 min2Depth in an Art History Analysis
Level 2 art history candidate Sione has drafted a 900-word analysis of a series of five landscape paintings by a contemporary New Zealand artist. The paintings combine thick, scraped-back paint with lines of text stencilled across the horizon.
752 words, about 4 min3Three Concepts, One Systematic Strand
Level 2 design candidate Aria is preparing a two-panel folio for the body-of-work standard. Panel one carries three distinct poster concepts for a school music festival.
736 words, about 4 min4Tracing a Photograph into a Reduction Linocut
Level 2 printmaking candidate Hemi has produced a four-colour reduction linocut for the printmaking drawing standard. His source is a photograph of a 1950s Wellington street found on a museum website; the caption says the photographer is unidentified and the image is 'out of copyright'.
768 words, about 4 min5A 2.4 Metre Glass Sculpture in a Busy Courtyard
Level 2 sculpture candidate Tama proposes a 2.4 m high work for the school courtyard: a welded steel armature with 14 sheets of 4 mm glass slotted between the ribs, lit from below. His 24 cm maquette, made from card and acetate, is well resolved and shows a twisting sequence of ribs.
779 words, about 4 min