Year 12

Key Questions/Concepts

  • To promote discussion and experimentation

  • To engage with traditional, modern and contemporary approaches to art making

  • How conventions can be re-imagined 

  • Work collabratively with peers to explore concepts and new ways of working

  • To explore and question ambitions, agendas, experiences and biases of other artists

 

Timeframe

  • September - January

 

Key Vocabulary

Word/phrase

Definition

Conventions

Characteristic of the art produced in a particular culture, time and/or medium

Appropiation

The intentional borrowing, copying, and alteration of existing images and objects

Traditional

Artists use forms, genres, themes and meanings that are passed on from generation to generation

Modern

Artists as individuals, creating something new and personal without relying on previous work, reflecting the realities of modern societies

Contemporary

Art that can break down familiar boundaries. It raises questions and challenges all established ideas and conventions

 

Wider Reading

Key Questions/Concepts

  • Independently research, question and expand ideas based on a chosen theme

  • Opportunity to explore and develop a visual language

  • A deeper understanding of the role of art, craft and design within history and society

  • Opportunity to discuss, share, experiment and collaborate with peers 

  • Work from a range of genres demonstrating various rules/conventions of art

 

Timeframe

  • February - April

 

Key Vocabulary

Word/phrase

Definition

Visual language

Understanding that art conveys messages and communicates ideas makes almost every  picture an element of visual language

Communication

The imparting or exchanging of information  by speaking, writing and visual mediums

Stimulus

An interesting and exciting quality

Aesthetics

Giving or designed to give pleasure through beauty

Narrative

In the form of or concerned with narration with an image

 

Wider Reading

  • Think Like an Artist...and lead a More Creative, Productive Life by Will Gompertz

  • Talk Art: Everything you wanted to know about contemporary art but were afraid to ask by Russell Tovey and Robert Diament

Key Questions/Concepts

  • Opportunitity to question, challenge and respond to the world through a personal theme

  • Recognise and develop own strengths to sustain a strong line of enquiry

  • Explore how images and artefacts relate to the time and place in which they were made and to their social and cultural contexts

  • Organise, select and communicate ideas, solutions and responses and present them in a range of visual, tactile and/or sensory forms

  • Generate and explore potential lines of enquiry using appropriate media and techniques

 

Timeframe

  • May - July (Year 12) and September - January (Year 13)

 

Key Vocabulary

Word/phrase

Definition

Perception

The way in which something is regarded, understood, or interpretated

Practioner

A person actively engaged in art, dicipline, or profession

Insight

An accurate and deep understanding

Dexterous

Showing or having skill, especially with the hands

Intuition

The ability to create something instinctively, without fear of mistakes or conscious reasoning

 

Wider Reading

  • Artists Journals and Sketchbooks: Exploring and creating personal pages by L Perrella

  • 100 Artists' Manifestos: From The Futurist to The Stuckists by A Donchev

  • A illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration From Private Sketchbooks of Artists, Illustratiors and Designers by D Gregory

  • The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change by R Hughes