Assessment for Units 1-3 / Assignments / Major Work

• • The class activities within the units of work are completed throughout the duration of the course this allows the student to maintain standards following the Visual Art course prescriptions guidelines of the Board of Studies core syllabus with Artmaking and Art History/Criticisms.

  • Three Assignments will allow students to perform and to fulfill internal assessments set within the description of the each assignment.

  • The Major work allows the student to exercise their strengths in performing their best artistic skill in a range of art forms. Students will chose to make comments on critical conceptual ideas that will challenge the audience intellectually making the viewer to think on many levels rather than one linear thought.

What are the Course Prescriptions?

The course prescriptions are based on the Board Of Studies objectives found in the Visual Art Syllabus.

Artmaking

P1: Explores the conventions of practice in artmaking

P2: Explores the roles and relationships between the concepts of artist,artwork,world and audience.

P3: Identifies the frames as the basis of understanding expressive representation through the making of art.

P4: Investigates subject matter and forms as representations in artmaking.

P5: Investigates ways of developing coherence and layers of meaning in the making of art.

P6: Explores a range of material techniques in ways that support artistic intentions.

Art History / Criticism:

P7: explores the conventions of practice in art criticism and art history.

P8: explores the roles and relationships between concepts of artist, artwork, world and audience through critical and historical investigations of art.

P9: identifies the frames as the basis of exploring different orientations to critical and historical investigations of art.

P10: explores ways in which significant art histories, critical narratives and other documentary accounts of the visual arts can be constructed.

Class Tasks Internal Objectives / Outcomes

· Investigated artist and compare this with a more contemporary artist you have learned about.

· Develop understanding of what constitutes practice: eg relationship of the artist to the audience, selected artworks, historical context, significant events, use of technologies, methods of working — individual, collective.

· Show visuals and annotated notes and diagrams may be used to amplify the comparisons made.

· Explore references to critical and historical accounts and selected images must be referenced.

· Complete assignment in the duration of time set.

· Investigate comparative works building on one of the contemporary artists studied in class activities.

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