Stepney All Saints School

Art

AS Level ART

Overview

A brief introduction to the subject:

AS Level Art This WJEC Eduqas AS Art and Design specification has been designed to provide engaging and innovative creative learning experiences, where art, craft and design practice is meaningfully integrated with theoretical knowledge and understanding.
The specification encourages creativity, sustained investigation and analysis, experimentation, and design and making as a means of developing technical and expressive skills. It gives learners the opportunity to follow a programme of study which extends experience and personal response as well as developing imagination and critical and reflective thinking. The ability to innovate, adapt and work independently, which underlies all aspects of the specification, is valued by higher education and employers alike.
This AS specification aims to encourage learners to develop: • intellectual, imaginative, creative and intuitive capabilities • investigative, analytical, experimental, practical, technical and expressive skills, aesthetic understanding and critical judgement • independence of mind in developing, refining and communicating their own ideas, their own intentions and their own personal outcomes • an interest in, enthusiasm for and enjoyment of art, craft and design • the experience of working with a broad range of media • an understanding of the interrelationships between art, craft and design processes and an awareness of the contexts in which they operate • knowledge and experience of real world contexts and, where appropriate, links to the creative industries • knowledge and understanding of art, craft, design and media and technologies in contemporary and past societies and cultures • an awareness of different roles, functions, audiences and consumers of art, craft and design.
Students will enjoy studying Fine Art if they enjoy: drawing or recording using photography, discussing their ideas, using their imagination and problem solving.

Entry Requirements

Minimum entry requirement at least a grade 4 in any Art and Design GCSE such as: photography, textiles, graphics, art craft and design, fine art, three dimensional design or photography.
Prior knowledge of formal elements in Art and Design, documenting and maintaining a sketchbook and the ability to discuss your motivation behind your work.
The AS Level Fine Art places an emphasis on drawing. Students should be confident in drawing in any of the following ways: sketches, analytical observational studies, storyboarding, thumbnail sketches, layouts, roughs, experimental and expressive studies, 2D or 3D modelling, detailed designs or elevations. Drawing or recording can also be conducted via the use of digital tools such as a stylus and software programme, or traditional media such as charcoal or pen. Drawing can similarly be highly effective when digital tools and technologies are integrated with more traditional processes.

Course Content

Year 12 (AS )

The Personal Creative Enquiry consists of an extended, exploratory project/portfolio and outcome/s based on themes and subject matter which are personal and meaningful to the learner. The Enquiry must integrate critical, practical and theoretical work.
The learner will be required to select, evaluate and present work for assessment. Submissions will be assessed through the use of the assessment objectives. Work will be determined by the learner and teacher, assessed by the teacher and externally moderated.
The extended personal creative enquiry will be based around the theme ‘Memory, Traces and time’. Students will be introduced to various ways of making art, techniques, specialist materials and contemporary artists work.
Learning activities will consist of: art workshops, Gallery Visits, studio based learning, written contextual analysis of artists and their art and group discussions (critiques).
Students will be regularly given feedback on their creative enquiry through one to one tutorials with their teacher. Students will regularly be marked using the exam board Eduqas’ marking matrix.
Coursework is worth 100% of the student’s final AS Level grade (A-E).

Skills Gained

By the end of the course, students will develop:

Analytical / problem-solving skills.
The ability to communicate their ideas and thought process through their creative enquiries both verbally and via written communication and sketchbook analysis.
Critical thinking.
The ability to create and respond to a range of different media, artists and art movements via practical art-making.
Independent study and research.
The ability to produce a sustained visual outcome working to time restrictions.

Future Opportunities

Studying AS Fine Art can lead to an extensive range of university courses. Such as: Architecture, Interior design, Fine Art, Photography, Graphic Design, Illustration, Set Design, Media studies, History of Art, game art and animation, ceramics, art therapy, fashion design, digital communication, web design and development, product design, textiles, textiles conservation, fashion communication, decorative arts and historic interiors, curation, costume design and making, sustainable fashion, automotive and transport design, concept and comic arts, creative advertising, fashion buying and merchandising, digital design and media, secondary school art , primary school education and more.

Art has an extensive list of career pathways including: teaching, advertising, design, museum curation, fashion, animation, gaming and architecture.
Fine Art will give you the transferable skills of: working to a deadline, problem solving, communicating with others, organisation, working as a group and independently, responding to ideas and expressing yourself.

Enrichment Opportunities

In AS Art, we use the rich resources of London’s galleries and museums to give momentum and inspiration to our projects. We will be attending these institutes throughout our studies.
All Art students are encouraged to attend galleries and make the most of the Tate Collective opportunity for discounted entry into paid exhibitions. Details can be found here https://www.tate.org.uk/tate-collective
Alternatively, the Royal Academy runs a ‘young people’ discounted programme showcasing exhibitions and workshops. For more information please visit this site https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/page/young-people-programme.
Reading List: ‘Playing to the gallery’ Grayson Perry, ‘Ways of seeing’ John Berger, ‘Steal like an artist’ Austin Kleon, ‘The Art book revised edition’ Phaidon.

Subject Leader

Name: Ms Clare Dorber
Email: clare.dorber@stepneyallsaints.school

Key Stage 3 (Year 7-9)

Year 7:

Line, shape, colour and the self: Students will explore using a line to document a journey looking at artists that have used line to document travel. Students will develop their proficiency in accurately describing and drawing geometric shapes. Students will then use their knowledge of geometric shapes to describe themselves as a lego figure. Students will revisit their KS2 knowledge of colour theory and colour mixing to develop an abstracted geometric self-portrait inspired by artist Paul Klee.

Still-life and printmaking: Students will develop their drawing skills and begin to explore further formal elements such as mark-making and tone to draw directly from primary source objects. Students will study traditional still-life and contemporary still life artists. Students will then devise a still-life print inspired by Althea McNish.

Patterns and clay: Students will design and make a clay tile inspired by the patterns they see around the school, London and Tower Hamlets. Students will draw inspiration from artists: Chris Offili, Yinka Shonibare and Hassan Hajjaj.

Year 8

Feast: Students will look at the visual history of food in Art from traditional still-life to Pop Art to contemporary food illustration. Students will develop their observational drawing skills using a range of materials and drawing from a combination of primary and secondary sources. Students will look at contemporary food illustrators to create research and gain insight into ways of working with wet media such as watercolour and ink. Students will create a large-scale food illustration show-casing their wet media skill.

My city architecture project: Students will explore the work of artists and architects that have been inspired by London or have created iconic buildings in the capital. Students will be able to understand and apply perspective to their city scape drawings. Students will work with a range of new materials such as mixed media, printmaking and charcoal.

Year 9

The Art of Protest: Students will look at protest poster design focusing on Amnesty international as a starting point. Students will develop primary source drawings of objects associated with freedom and limitations. Students will look at the work of artist Barbara Kruger to show their understanding of how image and text can create powerful images and messages. Students will plan, develop and create a lino print based on a protest/message of their choice combining image and text. Students will learn about the history of zines and develop their own mixed media zine about a contemporary issue that they are passionate about.

Street Art and Self-portraits: Students will learn about the contextual similarities and differences between street art and graffiti. Students will research a range of artist to inspire and drive their project such as: Haring, Banksy, Sweet Tooth and Fairey. Students will learn how to record a self-portrait using proportion, tone and line. Students will develop a street art stencil and understand positive and negative space. Students will create a spray-paint self-portrait final outcome.

Projects in Year 9 are designed to introduce students to working practices they will use in GCSE Art and Design

The following websites will be of use to students during the course of KS3, and can be used to explore further the topics studied in class:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/examspecs/z8nq6rd

https://www.tate.org.uk/kids

https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern

https://www.artpedagogy.com/

Key Stage 4 (Year 10-11)

Y10 and Y11

Over the two-year course students will complete three units of work.

Project one ‘The tools of my life/groups’: At the start of year ten students will revisit the formal elements of: line, tone, shape, mark making, colour, composition, pattern, space and form. They will start their studies drawing from a variety of observational primary and secondary source stimuli exploring media and process. They will gain knowledge of artist’s working practices through use of paint, print, observational drawings from direct observation and from photographs, Lino Print, mono print, collage, pen and ink and mixed media. Students will develop and extend ideas into a personal outcome of their choice.

Project two ‘power’: Students will explore the topic of Power by exploring a range of visual and artistic starting points and researching relevant aspects in more detail in order to develop ideas. They will explore the work of a variety of relevant artists exploring their use of formal elements and concepts. They will use a range of appropriate creative techniques and processes in order to refine their ideas and create individual pieces of work relating to their chosen artists and sub-themes. Students will develop and extend ideas into a personal outcome of their choice.

Unit 3: Exam unit.

The students will create a body of work using similar methodology and skills acquired to the first two units but exploring a theme set by the exam board Pearson. They will then produce their final piece in a ten-hour timed examination.

The following websites will be of use to students for their homework and revision:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/examspecs/z8nq6rd

https://qualifications.pearson.com/content/dam/pdf/GCSE/Art%20and%20Design/2016/specification-and-sample-assessments/specification-gcse-art-design-2016-spec.pdf

https://www.artpedagogy.com/why-study-art.html

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/student-resource/exam-help

https://www.studentartguide.com/articles/art-sketchbook-ideas