This page includes Visual Arts Grade 12 past papers and memos.
Paper 1 Structure:
Paper 1 of the Visual Arts Grade 12 exam question paper focuses on the theory part of “Visual Culture Studies“. This is a three-hour paper that contains 8 questions in total. Learners have to choose only 5 questions to answer in the exam. See the 8 questions and the mark allocations on the table below:
Question Number
Topic Focus
Marks
QUESTION 1
The voice of emerging artists
20
QUESTION 2
South African artists influenced by African and/or indigenous art forms
20
QUESTION 3
Socio-political art, including resistance art of the 1970s and 1980s
20
QUESTION 4
Art, craft and spiritual works mainly from rural South Africa
20
QUESTION 5
Multimedia and new media – alternative contemporary and popular art forms in South Africa
20
QUESTION 6
Post-1994 democratic identity in South Africa
20
QUESTION 7
Gender issues: masculinity and femininity
20
QUESTION 8
Architecture in South Africa
20
TOTAL REQUIREMENT
Learners must answer any FIVE questions
100
In the Visual Arts Grade 12 exam paper, students are required to answer only questions in essay style, using full sentences and paragraphs according to the instructions for each question. If you only provide a list of facts, instead of writing in essay format, you will be severely penalised and lose marks. The nature of essay questions consists of shorter and longer essay-type questions.
Paper 2 Structure:
Paper 2 of Visual Arts Grade 12 is a practical examination, focusing on 2 topics, which are the following:
Conceptualising at school and/or home during Term 3 – 50 Marks
Must be done ONLY at school during the 4th term undercontrolled conditions: a minimum of 12 hours and a maximumof 24 hours -50 Marks
Paper 2 examination question paper consists of 26 pages more or less in total. You have to complete both Topic 1 (Sourcebook) and Topic 2 (Artwork).
You can see that this paper is very different from other Grade 12 question paper structures on this website.
