Why study A Level Art and Design?

• This is a very enjoyable, practical course with the emphasis on you developing your own ideas within given themes.

• We go on trips to galleries and to the IOE to listen to artists talk about their careers.

• Many of our students have an interest in pursuing a career in Art and go on to reputable foundation courses and degree courses following the completion of the A2 course in Y13.

• 60% Coursework• 40% Exam (15 HOURS)YOU WILL NEED TO WORK IN AT LEAST TWO ART DISCIPLINES EG FINE ART AND 3D

Assessment Objectives are similar to GCSE A01: Develop Ideas through sustained and focused investigations….ANALYSE THE WORK OF OTHER ARTISTS.A02: Explore and select appropriate resources, media materials, techniques ……reviewing and refining ideas…A03: Record ideas, observations and insights relevant to intentions………..EVALUATE YOUR WORK.A04: Present a personal and meaning full response that realisesintentions…………..

SKETCH BOOK ANALYSIS

• Look at the Y12 sketch books on your tables and open it up on a page you like that shows evidence for one of the assessment objectives below. I will tell your table which one. Explain WWW about the pages you have chosen?

• A01 – Developing ideas and Artist Research • A02 – Use of media and improving ideas.• A03 – Recording from observation and secondary sources.

Analysing your work.• A04 – Final piece

Course Structure

Y12 Course Y13 Course

Term 1: TRANSFORMATIONS PROJECT• Etching Project – OCTOBER ASSESSMENT• Ceramics Project• Textiles Project• Mixed Media techniques - JANUARY MOCK EXAM.COMPLETE ALL PROJECT WORK BY FEBRUARY HALF TERM

Term 2 and 3: PERSONAL INVESTIGATION• Plaster Project• Mood boards on Personal Investigation Theme• Written Proposal for theme• Project work towards Y12 Summer Exam – Final Piece

made in alternative media to chosen specialism for Y13• Mini Essay

Term 1: PERSONAL INVESTIGATIONLine and Layers Project – OCTOBER ASSESSMENTWork in chosen specialism: Fine Art, Ceramics or TextilesJanuary Mock Exam

Term 2: PERSONAL STUDY – 1000 – 3000 word essay linked to practical work.

Exam Theme given out in February.

Activity

Get together in groups of about 4-5 and brainstorm ideas on the theme “TRANSFORMATIONS”. You may use the sketch books for ideas.

You have 5 minutes. You will present your ideas to the group.

Summer Homework

Year 12 Summer work:• Buy an A3 and A5 sketch book.

Gallery Visits• Visit at least one of the exhibitions in this booklet and make drawings and notes of what you see in an A5 sketch book.

Brainstorm• At the beginning of your A3 sketch book create a detailed brainstorm on the theme of Transformations – Use ideas in the booklet to help

you. Your brainstorm must include relevant artists.• Create a visual brainstorm using ideas from your written brainstorm.

General Research – Double Page• Write the Title: General Research. Choose a theme from your brainstorm and over a double page in your sketch book create AT LEAST 4

OBSERVATIONAL DRAWINGS relevant to your theme.• Photo shoot – Take photos of person, place or things that relate to your theme. Add in contact sheet and print out 4 (A5 size) for your

book.

Artist Research – Double Page• Over a double page in your sketch book stick in images by at least 4 artists that relate to the Transformations theme and who’s work

inspires you. Include some factual information about their work, brief analysis about the formal elements (line, tone, colour, composition) and meanings behind their work.

Transformations

The theme is: TRANSFORMATION

States of change have always provided a rich source of subject matter for artists and craftspeople. The physical transformation of an object or person through the process of ageing has inspired artists throughout history.

Portrait painters are often intrigued with how the process of time has changed their own appearance.

The environment is in a daily state of change from dusk to dawn and through the seasons. Some changes are slow and imperceptible, others are sudden and dramatic.

Human occupation of the planet results in constant and major alterations to land, sea and cityscape.

STARTING POINTS

sunrise, sunset, moonrise, northern lights

• spring, summer, autumn, winter

• age, growth, birth, restoration

• adornment, rites of passage, weddings, funerals

• cooking, burning, eating, cleaning, repairs, tools

• dressing up, acting, masquerades, make-up, disguise

• demolition, oxidation, erosion, mould, decay, recycling, weathering

• agriculture, transportation, landfill, quarrying, machinery

Natural Environment

• Slow changes:

Climate change

Chemical erosion

Acid rain

Melting icebergs

Mould/Decay

• Sudden changes:

Natural disasters

Tsunami/Flood

Freak weather

Forrest fires

Hurricanes Climate change Olatur Eliasson moves 100 tonnes of ice to Copenhagen to visualize climate change

Hokusai ‘The Great wave’ Scott Yoell ‘Tsunami’

Climate change

Jason de Caires Taylor ‘Underwater sculpture’

• Seasonal changes; Spring, summer, Autumn, Winter

• Dawn to Dusk, sunrise, sunset, northern lights

• Changes in the landscape

• Changing/transforming food; cooking, eating, burning, decorating, moulding process, bacteria growing.

• Animals transforming their habitats; bird’s nesting, bee’s hive, ant colonies

• Butterflies/Moths transforming inside their cocoons.

Peter Prendergast

Transient conditions:The transforming power of light throughout the day

Monet’s Haystacks

Camille Pissarro ‘Rouen Bridge’

Urban Environment

• Changing skyline in a cityscape

Built up environment, expansion, renovation

Demolition, erosion, rust, recycling

Ruins, former civilisations

The use of tools and machinery to transform a space or an environment.

Debra Hurd ‘New Orleans Bourbon street’

Rushton Aust Textile art physically interacts with architecture

Giovanni Piranesi etchings of ruins ‘The Colosseum’

Recycled materials in Art:Tony Cragg ‘Green, Yellow, Red, orange and blue bottles II’

People• Rites of passage

• Changes in status:

New job/roles

New Baby

New marriage/relationship

Weddings/Funerals

• Mood swings/Changing personalities

• Dressing up, acting, masquerades, makeup, disguise

• Aging process; birth, death, restoration

• States of decay

• New faith, conversion, Radicalisation

Transi tombs

Portraits changing over time:Stanley Spencer’s self potraits

• Human population expanding and invading the natural environment, transforming the surface of the planet

• Humans invading and infringing on animal territory

• Historical transformation

Abolition of the slave trade

Suffragette movement

Changes from the War/ Fall of the Nazi regime.

• Transformation of fashion through the decades, changing the appearance of the human shape; bustles, 1920’s, 1960’s.

Edward Burtynsky ‘Manufactured landscapes’

Norman Foster Reichstag building in Berlin, former symbol of Nazism, now a public gallery with reflected light symbolising openness and freedom.

Aesthetic/Artistic transformations

• Transitions between cultures in ArtPicasso’s use of African and Iberian

masks that influenced CubismJapanese Art that influenced

Impressionism• Artists who change and transform

the surface quality of materials • Photographic transformation;

altering shutter speed to adapt an image.

• Surrealism; transforming the real into the Surreal/ Unreal

Pablo Picasso‘Les Demoiselle D’ Avignon’

Claude MonetThe Japanese Bridge. Waterlillies