Swedish Mellanstadiet Visual Arts (Bild)

This information is based on the Swedish National Agency for Education (Skolverket) curriculum, Lgr22.

Course Overview:

Visual arts education (Bild) emphasizes the importance of images in thinking, learning, and experiencing the world. Students develop skills in creating, interpreting, and critically analyzing images from various sources, including film, photography, design, art, architecture, and their surrounding environments. The curriculum encourages creativity, visual communication, and exploration of visual culture, both contemporary and historical.

Grade 4-6 (Mellanstadiet):

• Image Creation:
• Creating narrative and informative images, such as comics and illustrations.
• Exploring drawing, painting, printmaking, and three-dimensional work.
• Reusing and manipulating images through collage and montage.
• Utilizing photography, film, and other digital image creation and editing techniques.
• Understanding copyright and ethical considerations when using images.
• Techniques, Tools, and Materials:
• Learning about elements that create spatiality in two- and three-dimensional images, such as lines, color, and their combinations.
• Using tools and materials for drawing, painting, printmaking, three-dimensional work, photography, moving images, and digital image processing.
• Image Analysis:
• Studying art and documentary images, as well as architecture from different times and cultures.
• Analyzing media images, including advertising and news.
• Exploring images from students' visual cultures that depict identity, group affiliation, and norms.
• Understanding how images influence and convey messages.
• Learning terminology to discuss image content, expression, and function.

Grading Criteria (End of Grade 6):

The grading criteria assess a student's ability to create various types of images, utilize different techniques and materials, develop ideas, choose appropriate working methods, and analyze image content and function. The criteria range from E (lowest) to A (highest). Detailed descriptions of the criteria for each grade level can be found in the linked curriculum document.