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Unit 1: Developing ideas and skills |
Area of Study 1:
Developing ideas and skills
This area of study focuses on the development of ideas, imagery and skills through the imaginative exploration of a range of techniques and working methods.
This development is encouraged through a variety of set tasks. An understanding of the application of formal elements and principles and documentation of
all thinking and working practices is undertaken.
Key Knowledge
This knowledge includes
- the nature of materials, techniques and working methods involving artistic research, experimentation and exploration including correct health and safety practices.
- understanding the materials and processes used in selected art forms and media.
- types of materials their uses and distinct characteristics.
- a range of concepts, styles and selected images.
- methods of trialling visual solutions to set tasks.
- the formal elements.
Key skills
These skills include the ability to
- undertake exploration of materials, techniques and working methods.
- realise visual solutions to set tasks through experimentation, exploration and artistic research.
- develop ideas and skills using selected art forms and media.
- document thinking and working practices.
- use formal elements to realise visual solutions.
Assessment tasks for outcome 1 must be based on a folio of visual solutions showing a selection of set tasks.
It is important that the student has the motivation to do some individual research.
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Area of Study 2:
Art and Society
This area of study focuses on the ways in which art reflects the values, beliefs and traditions of the societies for which it is created.
Students will begin to see the importance of an artworks cultural context and analyse the varying social functions that art can serve.
Students are required to attend exhibitions, use the library, internet, magazines and other sources to collect information as part of the
process to research ideas for written work in their discussion of cultural contexts, social issues, and themes explored in selected artwork.
Key Knowledge
This knowledge includes
- the range of art that is created for specific contexts; for example, decoration of sacred spaces, parliamentary portraits and murals, the display of culturally significant objects and symbols in museums and galleries, memorial and civic sculpture, outdoor murals, newspaper cartoons and caricatures, and art produced for the Internet.
- the social functions of art; for example, religious art, mythological art, social realism and art as propaganda, art as an expression of dissent, commemorative art, satirical art.
- the interpretation and presentation of social issues and themes in art of the past and present; for example past and present depictions of gender issues, war and peace, childhood and youth, justice, punishment, power, technology and the environment.
Key Skills
These skills include the ability to
- compare and contrast artworks of the past and present in discussing different cultural contexts for art.
- discuss the social functions of art in past and present settings.
- discuss artworks in order to identify particular social issues or themes.
- undertake visual analysis of artworks using appropriate terms and vocabulary in order to discuss how artists interpret and present social issues in art.
- research a range of resources to support discussions of the cultural contexts, functions and settings of art.
Assessment for outcome 2 could be an annotated visual report, and oral report, an extended written response or short answer
responses supported by visual material in the form of a gallery sheet.
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