ACADEMIC YEAR: 2017-18 (Summer 2018) SUBJECT: History of Art LEVEL: Year 12 NAME OF GROUP: TUTOR/S RESPONSIBLE FOR SCHEME: Will Stockland TUTOR/S RESPONSIBLE FOR TEACHING: Will Stockland SPECIFICATION TITLE/NUMBER: Edexcel OPTION TITLES: C4. TEACHING WEEKS: 6 ASHBOURNE COLLEGE SCHEME OF WORK WEEK UNIT/MODULE TOPIC POSSIBLE/ 1 16.04.18 Brancusi Overview. Primitivism. Use of materials and direct carving. Key works: The Kiss; Mademoiselle Pogany. Brancusi.
Vorticism. Wyndham Lewis and Vorticism. Primitivism and Vorticism: Jacob Epstein and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. Key work: Red Stone Dancer by Henri Gaudier- Brzeska. Jacob Epstein. Critical texts. Early Epstein. Later Epstein. Key works: Memorial of Oscar Wilde and Torso from the Rock Drill. Epstein. Discuss the effects of primitivism on Jacob Epstein and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1000 words).
WEEK UNIT/MODULE TOPIC POSSIBLE/ 2 23.04.18 The Legacy of Cubism: Abstraction in Europe and America 1918-45. Overview France: Orphism, Purism, and Later Cubism (Léger, Gris, Gleizes, and Metzinger). Germany: Bauhaus (Kandinsky). Britain: Vorticism and Unit One. Holland: De Stijl. Russia: Rayonism, Suprematism, and Constructivism. America: Synchromism and Georgia O Keefe. Neo-Plasticism, De Stijl, and Bauhaus. Overview. Van Doesburg and De Stijl. Kandinsky and Bauhaus. Background reading on Malevich and Suprematism. Mondrian. Stangos: 138-40. Suprematism handout.
Mondrian. Overview: life, work and theories. Key works: Composition No. 10 in Black and White and Broadway Boogie- Woogie. 3 30.04.18 Dada. Overview: Dada in Paris, Cologne, Zurich and New York (Breton, Ernst, Tzara and Duchamp). Marcel Duchamp. Overview: life, work and theories. Key works: Fountain; The Bride Stripped Bare of Her Bachelors Even Discuss how Mondrian used abstraction to fulfil his Neo-Plasticist theories (1000 words). Dada. Define the basic ideas of Dadaism (250 words). WEEK UNIT/MODULE TOPIC POSSIBLE/
Max Ernst. Ernst and Dada collage. De Chirico. Ernst and Surrealism. 4 07.05.18 Surrealism. Overview. De Chirico and the Scuola Metafisica. Breton and The Surrealist Manifesto. The different interpretations of Surrealism: Ernst, Dalí, Magritte and Miró. Surrealist sculpture: Giacometti. The Surrealist Landscape. Ernst and the natural history of the mind. Dalì and the Paranoiac- Critical Method. Key work: Visions of Africa by Salvador Dalì. Discuss the found object and the ready-made and their use in Modernist art (1000 words). Read critical texts for Surrealism. Define the basic principles of Surrealism (250 words). Surrealism handout. Britt: 226-51.
Surrealist Sculpture. Alberto Giacometti. Key work: Spoon Woman and The Palace at 4am. 5 14.05.18 Modern Urban Life. Baudelaire and ideas of the urban life in The Painter of Modern Life. Genre painting in 19 th -century France. Discuss the different interpretations of the human figure and Dadaist and Surrealist sculpture (1000 words)> genre painting. WEEK UNIT/MODULE TOPIC POSSIBLE/ Modern Urban Life. Urban life in French painting in the early 20 th century: Pablo Picasso, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, and Fernand Leger. Key work: The City by Fernand Leger. the Delaunays.
Modern Urban Life. Urban life in painting outside of France: Italian Futurism. Key work: The Street Enters In by Umberto Boccioni. Discuss how depictions of modern urban life developed in early Modernist painting (1000 words). 6 21.05.18 MOCK (Paper 1) stilllife painting. Review of Mock Still-Life Painting. The history of still-life painting before Modernism. The development of still-life painting in the work of Cézanne, Matisse and Picasso. stilllife painting. Week 7 MOCK