Aims & Objectives

Course Aims

• Enjoy lifelong engagement with the arts

• Become informed, reflective and critical practitioners in the arts

• Understand the dynamic and changing nature of the arts

• Explore and value the diversity of the arts across time, place and cultures

• Express ideas with confidence and competence

• Develop perceptual and analytical skills

• Make artwork that is influenced by personal and cultural contexts

• Become informed and critical observers and makers of visual culture and media

• Develop skills, techniques and processes in order to communicate concepts and ideas

Assessment Objectives

Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of specified content

• identify various contexts in which the visual arts can be created and presented

• describe artwork from differing contexts, and identify the ideas, conventions and techniques employed by the art-makers

• recognise the skills, techniques, media, forms and processes associated with the visual arts

• present work, using appropriate visual arts language, as appropriate to intentions

Demonstrate application and analysis of knowledge and understanding

• express concepts, ideas and meaning through visual communication

• analyse artworks from a variety of different contexts

• apply knowledge and understanding of skills, techniques, media, forms and processes related to art-making

Demonstrate synthesis and evaluation

• critically analyse and discuss artworks created by themselves and others and articulate an informed personal response

• formulate personal intentions for the planning, development and making of artworks that consider how meaning can be conveyed to an audience

• demonstrate the use of critical reflection to highlight success and failure in order to progress work

• evaluate how and why art-making evolves and justify the choices made in their own visual practice

Select, use and apply a variety of appropriate skills and techniques

• experiment with different media, materials and techniques in art-making

• make appropriate choices in the selection of images, media, materials and techniques in art-making

• demonstrate technical proficiency in the use and application of skills, techniques, media, images, forms and processes

• produce a body of resolved and unresolved artworks as appropriate to intentions