Year 13

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, Illustrators and Designers by D Gregory

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

Key Questions/Concepts

  • Demonstrate a working vocabularly and specialist terminology

  • Develop an understanding of the interrelationships between art, craft and design processes and an awareness of the contexts in which they operate

  • Show an awareness of different roles, functions, audiences and consumers of art, craft and design

  • Develop investigative, analytical and critical judgement in response to a line of enquiry

  • Develop independence of mind in communicating own ideas, judgements and evaluations

 

Timeframe

  • January

 

Key Vocabulary

Word/phrase

Definition

Critical

Expressing or involving an analysis of merits and faults of a work of art

Interrelationship

The way in which a number of elements is related to others

Synthesis

The combination of componenets or elements to form a connected whole

Exhibit

Publicly display a work of art or arefact in a gallery or museum

Context

The circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood

 

Wider Reading

  • The Power of Art by S Schama

  • The Tate Guide to Modern Art by S Wilson and J Lack

  • Art Now by U Grosenick and B Riemschneider

  • Ways of Seeing by John Berger

Key Questions/Concepts

  • Research and explore a given starting point from which to develop own work

  • Intregrate practical, critical and contextual study by direct engagement with original works and practice

  • Communicate knowledge and understanding of sources  that inform creative intentions in a variety of ways

  • Intentions should be realised through purposeful engagement and manipulation of visual language 

  • Explore and experiment with appropriate scales, media, materials and techniques

 

Timeframe

  • February - May

 

Key Vocabulary

Word/phrase

Definition

Originality

The ability to think independently and creatively

Intention

What the artist is communicating

Manipulation

The skillful handling, adapting, controlling or using of materials

Divergent 

Tending to be different or developed in different directions

Aesthetics

A set of principles underlying the work of a particular artist or artistic movement

 

Wider Reading

  • This is Modern Art by M Collings

  • 100 Contemporary Artists A-Z by HW Holzwarth