Sweden Visual Arts Curriculum (Grundskolan)

Visual Arts: Purpose

The Visual Arts curriculum aims to develop students' understanding of how images are created and interpreted. Students will experience visual culture through film, photography, design, art, architecture, and environments. They will learn how to produce and present their own images using various methods, materials, and forms of expression. The curriculum fosters creativity, visual communication skills, and encourages students to develop ideas, consider different solutions, and take initiative in their image-making work. Students will also learn to understand how visual messages are designed in different media, critically analyze various visual messages, and develop knowledge of images in different cultures, both present and historical. This knowledge will be applied to their own image creation.

Learning Objectives

By the end of their education, students should be able to:

• Communicate and express messages through images.
• Create images using various techniques, tools, and materials.
• Develop ideas, choose approaches, and justify their choices based on the purpose of their image work.
• Analyze the content, expression, and function of contemporary and historical images.

Core Content: Years 4-6

Image Production:

• Creating narrative and informative images, such as comics and illustrations for texts.
• Drawing, painting, printing, and three-dimensional work.
• Reusing and processing images, such as in collages and photomontages.
• Photography, film, and other digital image creation, including editing photos and moving images.
• Rights, responsibilities, and ethical considerations when using images in different contexts.

Techniques, Tools, and Materials:

• Different elements that build and create spatiality in two- and three-dimensional images, such as lines, color, and how combinations of these can be used in image-creating work.
• Tools and materials for drawing, painting, printing techniques, three-dimensional work, photography, working with moving images, and digital image processing.

Image Analysis:

• Art and documentary images, as well as architecture from different times and cultures.
• Media images, such as advertising and news images.
• Images from students' visual cultures that depict identity, group affiliation, and norms.
• How images influence and convey messages. Words and concepts to be able to talk about the content, expression, and functions of images.