Art & Design: Fine Art Art & Design: Graphic Communication Mrs Weber

Art & Design: Fine Art Art& Design: Graphic Communication

Aims and Objectives

• actively engage in the creative process of art, craft and design in order to develop as effective and independent learners, and as critical and reflective thinkers with enquiring minds • develop creative, imaginative and intuitive capabilities when exploring and making images, artefacts and products in a broad range of media, techniques, materials, processes and technologies • become confident in taking risks and learn from experience when exploring ideas, processes, media, materials and techniques • develop critical understanding through investigative, analytical, experimental, practical, technical and expressive skills • develop and refine ideas and proposals, personal outcomes or solutions with increasing independence • develop knowledge and understanding of art, craft and design in historical and contemporary contexts, societies, industries and cultures

Exam Board: Edexcel

Web link: https:/qualifications.pearson.com/en/qualifications/edexcel-gcses/art-and-design-2016.html Course Code: 1FA0 & 1GC0

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Week/ Term Task

DEVELOP ideas through investigations, demonstrating critical understanding of sources

Description

• Mind maps • Researching a range of artists • Visual and written write up of visits to galleries and other places of interest • Analysing artworks • Reading, note taking • Presenting images and notes purposefully • Taking photographs relevant to intentions • Analysis of own photographs • Annotating ideas throughout the project and connecting ideas to research • Thumbnail sketches • Sustained investigation

Autumn

REFINE work by exploring ideas, selecting and experimenting with appropriate media, materials, techniques and processes

• Experimenting with media, materials, techniques and processes e.g. composition, tone, colour, paint, scale, pen • Selecting appropriate media and techniques for an idea trial • Trial ideas • Evaluating trials • Refining an idea • Preparing a final piece • Recognises the full potential of media, materials and processes • Explore materials and styles through artist studies and pastiches • Planning a complex composition • Willingness to take creative risks

Pupils should be able to

Respond with initiative to the tasks set by the teacher. Present the work imaginatively and professionally. Work with enthusiasm and commitment to improve their work. Make use of the open studio times to extend their work. Make informed choices and decisions. Initiate critical discussion about their work and the work of others. Explore their personal theme with passion. Take responsibility for their coursework and progress in this. Their work should be developing towards being accomplished, inspired, intuitive, insightful, powerful, extraordinary, unexpected and outstanding.

RECORD ideas, observations and insights relevant to intentions as • Observational drawings and paintings in a variety of media, styles and scales • Written analysis of artists' work and evaluation of own work • Photography • Critical annotation

PRESENT a personal and meaningful response that realises intentions and demonstrates understanding of visual language • Evidencing understanding and use of the formal elements • Accurate grammar, spelling and punctuation • Depth of visual and written analysis • Communication of ideas • Use of specialist terms • Writing about and visually communicating meaning, symbolism, context, mood, content • Personal and individual qualities • Perceptive grasp of ideas • Creative use of visual or other forms • Appropriately realising intentions • Making effective and diverse connections • Final outcome • Evaluation • Presentation of work • Assured use of the formal elements • Assured use of media • Small scale outcomes • Large scale outcomes • Creative and original elements • Ambitious composition and or scale

Spring

Pupils will sit a mock in January, during which they will complete their final outcome for Unit 1. Unit 1 will be handed in at the end of January and Unit 2 will start at the beginning of February. Specific dates and details will be provided as soon as possible.

Summer

Pupils will continue with and complete Unit 2 which concludes with a 10-hour timed assessment set across 2 days. Dates will be provided as soon as possible.

NEA

Unit 1 Personal Investigation (60%) Unit 1 All classwork and homework throughout the course. FINAL HAND WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE END OF JANUARY. MORE INFORMATION TO FOLLOW.

NEA

Unit 2 ESA (Externally Set Assignment) (40%)

September - January

February - Study Leave in the Summer

Unit 2

Suggested further reading:

http://www.art2day.co.uk/ https://www.guggenheim.org/ https://www.npg.org.uk/ https://www.vam.ac.uk/ https://www.saatchigallery.com/ http://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern https://www.creativebloq.com/ https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/

https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/ http://www.wallacecollection.org/ https://thebricklanegallery.com/ http://www.nationalmuseumindia.gov.in/ http://www.asianart.org/ https://africa.si.edu/# https://www.mahj.org/en http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/

Architecture The Whole Story by Denna Jones The Thames & Hudson Introduction to Art Art in Detail – 100 masterpieces by Susie Hodge Who’s Afraid of Contemporary Art? By Kyung An and Jessica Cerasi The Self-Portrait A Cultural History by James Hall Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That – Modern Art Explained by Susie Hodge Art Since 1989 by Kelly Grovier and Art Since 1960 by Michael Archer Art Since 1900 Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism by Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh and David Joselit Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester Grayson Perry by Jacky Klein Hockney’s Pictures by David Hockney Ways of Seeing by John Berger