OAKLANDS COLLEGE
EDEXCEL A2 Fine Art
Assignmentsheet – Part 3 of 4 Start Date: November 2nd 2015 Completion Date: W/C January 4th 2016 Independent study time undertaken to total 4.5hrs PW
A2 Unit 3 Refining and adapting your ‘self-directed’ project
Alevel A&D Assignment writer A.F. Assessor A.F Internal Verifier A.F
ASSESSMENT OBJECTIVES Candidates should cover all four Criteria: Recording Stage: AO1: Develop their ideas through sustained and focused investigations informed by contextual and other sources, demonstrating analytical and critical understanding. Investigation Stage: AO2: Experiment with and select appropriate resources, media, materials, techniques and processes, reviewing and refining their ideas as their work develops. November Half Term
Anselm Kiefer
Introduction: Reflection at this stage offers you the chance to actively transform your on-going work into a focused study; by enhancing the elements you identify as having the most potential to be developed you will meet and or exceed the demands of the marks scheme. Revisit early experimentation, fuse and combine techniques, tweak aspects to reflect your growing sense of direction.
Key A2 Aims & Objectives: The key to stage 3 is to ensure that your concepts are matched in your efforts to build your personal study (essay) this should be of huge benefit to your unit 3. You can find this by directing your focus in your two-hour session and independent study time toward finding the perfect Artists studies. By December you will have a proposal for a final outcome.
Refining stages: AO3: Record in visual and/or other forms ideas, observations and insights relevant to their intentions, demonstrating an ability to reflect on their work and progress. Christmas Break Presenting Stage: AO4: Present a personal, informed and meaningful response demonstrating critical understanding, realizing intentions and, where appropriate, making connections between visual, oral or other elements. February 2016
Specific Task November to December 2015
Reflection and Refinement: Defining your projects central meaning Be informed: Your work is informed as always by your thoughts & feelings. Use your time to capture and expand upon these to create a rigorous and effective unit. Your work can now contain an element of ‘synthesis’ – this means that you will create practical work, which reflects the key aspects of your initial experimentations and on-going research (your essay) and your own life experiences. This is not copying but should be seen as a fusion; your responses from your own ‘visual Language’. Your work should be
ASSESSMENT OBJECTIVES Candidates should cover all four Criteria: Recording Stage: AO1: Develop their ideas through sustained and focused investigations informed by contextual and other sources, demonstrating analytical and critical understanding. Investigation Stage: AO2: Experiment with and select appropriate resources, media, materials, techniques and processes, reviewing and refining their ideas as their work develops.
your efforts at using this subject to relay something in a uniquely
November Half Term
personal and considered way.
Refining stages: AO3: Record in visual and/or other forms ideas, observations and insights relevant to their intentions, demonstrating an ability to reflect on their work and progress.
Effectively Adapt and progress this half term: We will ask you to balance theory and practical sessions, both should equally inform your work, ensure that you continue to feed this into your pad. Your written and visual analysis is really important use your glossary and local resources (Herts Uni Library etc.). By developing your work this way you will demonstrate a coherent and consistent element which is often the hardest mark to achieve, therefore we insist that you follow your agreed planning with care. Always look to establish what does and doesn't work, adapt your work to incorporate change and link your development to your written and practical work.
Christmas Break Presenting Stage: AO4: Present a personal, informed and meaningful response demonstrating critical understanding, realizing intentions and, where appropriate, making connections between visual, oral or other elements. February 2016
A good tip is to use headings for each shoot (not just numbering them please!). IE: Developing… Expanding… Revisiting…. See good examples from last year if this helps.
Revisiting your recent work, push the boundaries this half term: “Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought”. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Gallery Collections, Books, Magazines, Websites and Exhibitions for Research:
Gallery Collections: The Photographers Gallery http://photonet.new.mindunit.co.uk/index.php?pid=5 Barbican Art Gallery http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery Tate Modern/ Britain http://www.tate.org.uk/collection/ Hayward gallery http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/hayward-gallery-visual-arts Victoria and Albert Gallery http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/t/the-collections/ The National Gallery http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/ National Portrait Gallery http://www.npg.org.uk/search/ INVIA Gallery http://www.iniva.org/ Design Museum http://designmuseum.org/design Magazines: *Available in the LRC or subscribe online Hot shoe http://www.hotshoegallery.com/ The British Journal of Photography http://www.bjp-online.com/ Portfolio http://www.portfoliocatalogue.com/ Time Out Magazine http://www.timeout.com/london/art/ Websites: *See list on Oaklearn http://learn.oaklands.ac.uk
For Current Exhibitions: Tate http://www.tate.org.uk/exhibitions/ The Whitechapel Gallery http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions National Portrait Gallery http://www.npg.org.uk/ The Hayward Gallery http://www.haywardgallery.org.uk/ V&A http://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/index.html Royal Academy http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/ Barbican Art Gallery http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery National Gallery http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/
KEEP IN MIND: When responding to the work of others showing understanding of purpose, meaning and context is crucial, at A2 this means considering a personal and informed response mindful of critical language, (how does the work make you think and feel?). The way you use language and how you contextualise is important. Use the glossary on Oaklearn or in class, or ask your tutor! Always see each idea development as the chance to explore and investigate with technical practice or media (art materials). How does the process or technique you’re using help you examine your idea, I.E. You have selected a location and taken the right equipment to capture a shoot at night to examine ‘mood and atmosphere’ for example in response to gothic literature. Or you may wish to stage a studio shoot and need to plan this prior to your session to have the props/ items required to shoot efficiently.