Response may be a simple sensory reaction to artistic stimulus or a critical analysis of creative work. Responding within the expressive arts engages the emotions and the intellect. Responding and reflecting, both as artist and audience, is a fundamental part of learning in the expressive arts. Learners can also explore how the expressive arts can be used to question and challenge viewpoints and be a force for personal and societal change. Learners will be exposed to and explore work from diverse cultures and societies and learn about these influences, histories and impact.

They can provide opportunities for learners to explore their own cultural heritage and that of other people, places and times, and through this discover how the expressive arts can be used to shape and express personal, social and cultural identities. The expressive arts are also a powerful medium through which learners can explore Wales and its unique and diverse traditions, history and cultures.

It can encourage them to develop their imagination and draw upon their own experiences, skills and talents to become creative artists themselves. This exploration can also progress their understanding of how the expressive arts shape ideas and feelings. Exploring the expressive arts is essential to developing artistic skills and knowledge and it enables learners to become curious and creative individuals.Įxploring this Area, both through their own creative work and other people’s, engages learners with genres, techniques, tools, materials and practices and enables them to become curious and creative individuals.īy exploring forms and disciplines in the expressive arts, whether through experimentation, play or formal research and inquiry, learners can develop an understanding of how the expressive arts communicate through visual, physical, verbal, musical and technological means.

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