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**What is A-level Art and AS Art? ** An introduction to the Course and why should I study A-level Art? This is to introduce students to what is A-level Art and what is required in the course. It gives examples of the components of the course and describes how to go about developing the coursework project and controlled test. **How to approach the course? ** 1, Respond to work from other artists and cultures. 2, Develop preliminary plans and sketches in preparation for further work. 3. Present and organise your thoughts in a visual and intelligible way. 4. Recognise and deal with design problems 5. Think up your own ideas. 6. Explore and use materials skilfully. **Key Tips to complete the course? ** Examples of how to process the Personal Investigation showing the key objectives, developing ideas from artists, showing exploring materials and taking ideas through a number of processes and doing artist responses. Then developing ideas, compositional plans and artist studies to realise final concept. Examples of Externally set task, pages from sketchbooks to show how ideas were developed to interpret the theme Examples of possible Related Study and what topics one can develop into a written study - examples of covers of different studies to give an idea of what is expected.

This is a few slides of portrait drawings and to use as a starter activity where students can analyse the marks, lines and textures used to capture the portrait. Students in pairs look at the lines used in the portraits and quickly analyse and describe the quality of the marks and what effect this has on the drawing. A good way to find meaning in the marks and to get the mood of a drawing.

STEPS TO SUCCESS To make an artwork which promotes community values and kindness To be able to use artwork to encourage kindness The powerpoint has a few pages of ideas that inspire ‘kindness’ Possible ideas are… To make a poster with interesting typeface Or 2. To make a picture illustration, combining poems and drawings or images. Or To make a collage or a painting or use paper craft collage Or To make an animation, video clip or drawing Or Make a fashion design

Introductory info for GCSE and A-level A powerpoint clearly showing what is style visually but also showing how people interpret the same subject matter differently. To clearly understand what is a style? Slides showing how style is grouped by culture, country, period, artist periods, time, and art movement. Lots of questions and discussions about what makes a style. Lesson Objective To understand what is Style in Art? To develop a deeper understanding of how artists are grouped together. To begin to analyse and question and discuss various artworks To look at examples of elements of Art and principles of design. To define each Art element and respond by making own interpretation To define each Art Principle and respond by making own interpretation Also after this a list of all the elements of art with good examples of artworks on each element. For example what is a line, shape, pattern, texture…? A list of all the principles of Design with good examples of artworks on each principle explaining what is Balance, Rhythm, Harmony…? Tasks are included Discussions on style and then completing an artwork for each principle and design and element of art. Excellent introductory powerpoint for GCSE or A-level

An art study that shows the development of the Modern era in Art from Neo-Classicism, Romanticism, Realism with examples of different artists It is a detailed slide study with notes on each artist and key examples of artists work and a brief description of each. It shows how Impressionism came about with clear examples of what this is about. It is good to use to give students an introduction to how Modern Art developed and enables them to see the development towards the modern era.

This is a resource of examples of artists who use text in their artwork and there are some examples of artists who show movement in their work. There is also an activity to collage a set of black and white newspaper/magazine and make your own version creatively using text to show movement.

A set of 8 slides which describe the key characteristics of Dadaism and gives some examples of their works and looks at Surrealism and gives examples of some Surrealist artists. To use as worksheets in class where students can read about the movements and develop an understanding on the movements. A description of Duchamp, Man Ray, Dali, Ernst and Magritte with key examples of their work.

The song In A Gadda Da Vida inspired an exhibition of work at the Tate Gallery. This powerpoint just highlights the work at the gallery and gives examples of the Garden of Eden by different artists. There is also a link to a You Tube clip of the original song.

This resource is helpful at GCSE and A-level to teach how to apply acrylic paint with a scraper, a ruler or a card to drag colours and to overlap layers of colours. The resource has examples of Viera da Silva’s work to give to students. Students will need cardboard and a bank card and use this to apply the paint. Students need to practise copying her work with only a bank card to create the marks. Students need to cut the card in various sizes

This is a good powerpoint for basic foundation course on different elements of art - starting with Point - it gives you a number of exercises to explore this element as a creative element. Lots of exercises and different artists. An excellent starting point for A-level art looking at the basics of a mark and how this effects the negative area.

Looking at briefly two chapters of the famous John Berger book ’ Ways of Seeing’ It is difficult to summarise a book of such a wealth of knowledge and such a clever way of phrasing ideas. The slide presentation gives one a sketch of two chapters. Chapter one which discusses the image versus the photo, seeing versus words and there are a few quotes from John Berger but also the link to the You tube clips. This is a good A-level presentation and then to get the students to listen to the first two chapters on video clip. Students need to question how an image has lost its meaning through the advent of the camera and begin to draw a comparison of images before the camera and after the camera. Students should also look at how the way we have reproduced the female form through the ages from Antiquity to the 21st Century and think about the meaning of what it is to be nude and what it is to be naked. John Berger has a lot of ideas on this and there are lots of phrases from his book discussing this concept and showing some examples of this in some major artworks. One can never make justice of this incredible book but the slide show does allow for discussion in the class on important concepts and understandings we have of images in our time.

Used in a house competition where each House makes a different set of animals for Chinese New year in a different technique. Animals in paper art, photoghrapy manipulation of animals, Painting animals, Plastic animals and paper mache artists. Students work in groups and each group makes a different way of making a set of animals. This is a fun activity for KS 3 Art project or an after school club.

Tasks to develop drawing skills and giving examples and exercises to develop line qualities in drawings. Looking at various types of lines and ways of drawing with artists examples this is a great project for year 12/13 -AS and A-level class to develop confidence and skills in sketchbooks. A good way to build skills in art. Gives a variety of tasks and inspiration with a wealth of different lines to use. Using different types of lines to draw with like, contour lines, pattern lines, expressive lines, structural and modelling lines, diagrammatic lines planning and plotting lines and with examples to support the learning. There are lots of little exercises to develop confidence in drawing with lines.

Use the Singh Twins to inspire a collage on Self-identity Year 9 project at KS3. Students make a collage of their own photographs and favourite things. Transfer this and trace to a coloured washed background and paint in shapes and add in the fine pen line work to give detail.

German Art Historian, Heinrich Wolfflin in his “PRINCIPLES OF ART” (1915) isolated five opposing factors which he defined as the difference between High Renaissance and the Baroque style. This can further relate to the contrasts in MODERN ART MOVEMENTS There are the 5 main ways of interpreting forms with examples of the work of Heinrich Wolfflin that is: 1. painterly, linear, 2. closed, open, 3. planes and recession, 4. multiplicity, unity, 5. clearness and unclearness. Wolfflin supports a theory on ways of analysing a painting and examples of style which he formulated between the Renaissance and Baroque style and this gives a good interpretation of the differences in ways of depicting a subject. In the slide presentation examples are chosen to show the differences in style and hopefully students begin to understand the terminology used and begin to look at the ways different works are composed. The styles of Wolfflin also link to modern art movements like for example, painterly characterizes the work of Pierre Bonnard, Francis Bacon, Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh, Rembrandt or Renoir. Linear characterizes the work of Vermeer or Ingres. The Impressionists and the Abstract Expressionists tended strongly to be "painterly”, while movements such as Pop Art or photo-realism emphasize flatness and could be referred to more as linear. This also helps A-level students find their particular strengths and to make them reflect on what particular style they enjoy doing in their own work and gives them an excellent sense of vocabulary to use when analysing artworks and gives them an understanding of using art vocabulary when critically analysing their own and artist’s work. Students after reviewing the following slides on Wolfflin’s theory and discussing what the differences are in style begin to formulate their own essay on style using 2 artworks of your choice. TASK: Write an essay on two different artworks and analyse the composition and structure of the artwork in relation to the theories of style of Wolfflin. Begin to not only discuss the visual appearance of the subjects but try to relate this to the influences and background of the particular artists you choose.

This is a short visual display of how perspective developed from the early Medieval paintings through the key artists in the Renaissance: Giotto, Masaccio, Brunelleschi, Leonardo and then the Dutch artists and then to Cubism. It shows you how artists have developed a window on a flat space through first of all basic means of overlapping, placement, symmetry and story telling and how this changed with Giotto and Masaccio (use of light and dark shading) and how Brunelleschi brought the grid and camera obscura to develop a window to the world in his paintings. It further looks at Leonardo’s example and how he developed this linear perspective but then continues with the development of chair-scuro (light to dark shading) and their oil paint blending to continue developing the illusion of reality on a flat surface in their Still life paintings. The presentation ends with how this has now returned to a flat surface and the surface been treated as a wall again with the work of Cezanne and his brushwork painting and underpainting to develop an illusion of space. Cubism and its multiple viewpoints show how Art has now returned to a wall and Braque and Picasso’s work show how they have now fractured space and how the importance of creating an illusion of space on a 2D surface was not a priority but instead it was the overall meaning and idea that is important.