AS 91183 annotated exemplars

This annotated exemplar is intended for teacher use only. Annotated exemplars are extracts of student evidence, with commentary, that explain key parts of a standard. These help teachers make assessment judgements at the grade boundaries.

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For Excellence, the student needs to examine perceptively how media are used to create effects in art works

This involves:

• evaluating how media are used, applied and/or manipulated to create specific effects
• evaluating why media are used, applied and/or manipulated to create specific effects using supporting evidence from art works.

This student reaches Excellence by focusing on a particular art work (Edgar Degas’ The Little Fourteen Year old Dancer) and making annotations that evaluate how and why Degas used media to create specific effects in this sculpture (1). 

The use of supporting evidence is apparent in the lines which link the annotations to specific details in the art work (2).

For a more secure Excellence, the student could expand and clarify their evaluative statements, incorporating more details about how and why media have been used to create specific effects.

For Merit, the student needs to examine in-depth how media are used to create effects in art works.

This involves explaining how media are used, applied and/or manipulated to create specific effects using supporting evidence from art works.

The student provides a clear explanation of the impasto application of oil paint (1). Impasto is then linked to texture (2), and this effect is explained with reference to specific details in the art work The Uprising by Honoré Daumier (3).

The student has begun to evaluate the effects of media (4).

To reach Excellence, the student could expand their evaluation to consider how and why media are used to create specific effects, using supporting evidence from art works.

For Merit, the student needs to examine in-depth how media are used to create effects in art works. 

This involves explaining how media are used, applied and/or manipulated to create specific effects using supporting evidence from art works. 

The student explains how tukutuku have been used to create specific effects in the Poutama in Hotunui (1). The references to specific aspects of Hotunui provide the required supporting evidence (2).

For a more secure Merit, the student could expand their explanations to include more detail about the application of media, and make stronger links to the tukutuku panel.

For Achieved, the student needs to examine how media are used to create effects in art works.

This involves:

• describing how media are used, applied and/or manipulated
• describing the specific effects created by the use of media using supporting evidence from art works.

The student provides a detailed description of Honoré Daumier’s use of the lithographic medium (1). 

Specific effects of this process are described (2) and these are linked to supporting evidence in the art work Gargantua (3).

To reach Merit, the student could explain how the medium is used to create specific effects.

For Achieved, the student needs to examine how media are used to create effects in art works.  

This involves:

• describing how media are used, applied and/or manipulated
• describing the specific effects created by the use of media using supporting evidence from art works.

The student describes how the pou figures are carved (1).

The effects of the kowhaiwhai are described as flat (2). The reference to the three dimensional whakairo can also be accepted as a specific effect (3).

The references to Hotunui provide the required supporting evidence (4).

For a more secure Achieved, the student could provide more detail in their descriptions of how media are used, and in their descriptions of the specific effects caused by those media.

For Achieved, the student needs to examine how media are used to create effects in art works.  

This involves:

• describing how media are used, applied and/or manipulated
• describing the specific effects created by the use of media using supporting evidence from art works.

The student has described aspects of the lithographic process (1), with most statements provided as brief points (2).

Effects have been noted in general terms (3).

To reach Achieved, the student could provide a fuller description of the lithographic process. Specific effects of that medium could be described for the selected art work (Honoré Daumier’s Gargantua).