Welcome to the Art Department. A level Art and Design Fine Art AQA 7202

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1 Welcome to the Art Department A level Art and Design Fine Art AQA 7202

2 What is Fine Art? Fine Art may be defined as work developed primarily to communicate aesthetic, intellectual or purely conceptual ideas and meanings, rather than to serve a practical or commercial function. For example, work could be the outcome of personal experiences, thoughts and feelings, or simply to observe and record people, places and things in new and unique ways.

3 Fine Art work will demonstrate an understanding and application of formal elements and creative skills. You, as students, are expected to use visual communication sensitively and thoughtfully to document your artistic journey and fully support your intentions.

4 A level exhibition The culmination of your course will be celebrated with an exhibition of your work. An external examiner will also have visited to ensure your marks are accurate and that you are covering all Assessment Objectives.

5 Examples of AS work

16 Examples of A2 work

25 Classroom task The following slides will show you images of sculptures based on the reclining figure. With your group you are to discuss the images shown. You are to plan and present a 3D form based on and/or influenced by the artists work shown. You are not to copy any one sculpture. Materials for use are cardboard and tape, newspaper, withies (long flexible sticks), cable ties, string, stones, plasticine, clay.

26 Henry Moore Reclining Figure 1936.

27 Reclining nude II, Matisse

28 Recumbent nude Bronze Henry Moore

29 Manuel Felguerez, Reclining Nude, Ceramic Sculpture

30 Arleen Eichengreen & Nancy Gensburg Abstracted Reclining Figure

31 Reclining Nude, Cubist Bronze, American School

32 Henry Moore, Reclining Nude, 1952

33 American Modern Post-War Reclining nude sculpture c.1950 c. 1950

34 Large Reclining figure, 1984 Henry Moore

35 Henry Moore, Reclining figure 1929

36 Henry Moore, Bronze reclining woman

37 Matisse, Blue Nude 1

38 Barbara Hepworth, Mother and Child 1934

39 Henry Moore, Reclining Figure 1932

40 Reclining Figure, Frank Dobson

41 Henry Moore, Three Reclining Figures

42 Minimalist Italian Man Bronze Sculpture Limited Edition by Giovanni Ginestroni

43 Nude, Brancusi

44 Antony Caro, Woman Waking Up, 1955

45 Antony Caro, Woman Waking up, 1955

46 Henry Moore, Stringed Reclining Figure 1939

47 Naum Gabo, Figure,

48 Antony Caro, Steel Sculpture Part 1

49 Lynn Chadwick, Two Reclining Figures - Maquette III (1971)

50 Art (Fine Art) Examining Body: AQA Specification No. 7202/C, 7202/X Required Reading: John Berger, Drawing is Discovery (1953). This is a very short but powerful (2 page) essay. Available as a pdf here and also reprinted here Required Viewing: Andrew Graham-Dixon, The Secret of Drawing Episode 3: "All In The Mind". BBC Available at Further reading: These should all be available in local libraries. Ernst Gombrich, The Story of Art (Phaidon) John Berger (et al), Ways of Seeing (Penguin) Charles Harrison, English Art and Modernism (Yale University Press) Nikos Stangos (ed.), Concepts of Modern Art (Thames and Hudson) George Heard Hamilton, Painting and Sculpture in Europe (Penguin) Required Summer preparatory task: BP Portrait Awards visit Visit the BP Portrait Awards at the National Portrait Gallery (just round the corner from the National Gallery, near Trafalgar Square). The BP Awards is the most prestigious international exhibition of contemporary portrait paintings. Details: It is essential that you visit the gallery to experience the works qualities directly, and that you take with you a notebook in which you can record your observations. These should be both written and pictorial. Look at the exhibit and choose two works that you like. Make transcriptions of these works (or sections of the works). Add your observations. What do you like about the work especially? Choose two other pieces that show different styles of painting. Compare and contrast the images, taking into consideration characteristics such as: theme, pictorial structure (composition), materials, brushwork, colour, tone, light, arrangements of forms in pictorial space, body posture and facial gesture. Make written and visual notes (pencil, colour pencil) on the aspects of the work, and also record your personal experience (the ways in which you are affected by the work). When looking at the artwork and making transcriptions/comments please ensure you add the artist s name, name of the work, media, date produced and any relevant gallery information. Buy postcards, look online, and take photographs if allowed. BRING ALL WORK TO THE FIRST LESSON PLEASE

Art at Cox Green Curriculum Plan. Key Stage 4 Year 9 Term I Term 2 Term 3 Term 4 Term 5 Term 6

Art at Cox Green Curriculum Plan. Key Stage 4 Year 9 Term I Term 2 Term 3 Term 4 Term 5 Term 6 Term 6 (Early rotation) Introductory module 1. Drawing, painting and colour theory. Study Analysis and annotation. Research. Critical and contextual studies. The formal Observational drawing skills: Line,