AS Course Outline
What is Art and Design?
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
Georgia O'Keeffe
Are you a budding Michelangelo, Damien Hirst or Tracy Emin?
Whether you have an inborn talent, natural creativity or simply a desire to make things and learn
how to do this better this is your subject. Art and Design meets the needs of students who wish to
take up a wide range of careers - practical or academic.
Students are encouraged to explore their own and others ideas from a variety of starting points,
subsequently developing their own art and design practice including the integration of theory,
knowledge and understanding through research.
First-hand experience and critical awareness of works of art and design, including buildings and
design objects, are encouraged via visits to galleries and museums.
Art and Design at AS requires at least 5 GCSE’s and it is desirable to have a grade ‘C’ in an art
or design subject. It will be suited to students who have an interest and/or skill which they would
like to develop.
The course will enable students to extend their own and others’ ways of seeing the world through
increased fluency in visual language, materials and techniques.
What Skills Will Students Develop When Studying Art and Design?
Students will build and develop their visual recording skills using the formal elements, including
line, tone, colour, shape, pattern, texture, form and structure through experimentation with a
wide range of media and techniques - For example through drawing, figure drawing, painting,
printmaking and sculpture.
Students will learn how to collect relevant data, analyse and evaluate critically art and design
works using specialist art and design vocabulary and show an understanding of purposes,
meanings and contexts. Students will develop intellectual, imaginative, creative and intuitive
powers.
| Art and Design (EDEXCEL Board) AS Specification |
| Unit One
Internally set and marked, externally
moderated.
60% of AS Exam
|
Art and Design Course Work
Submissions must include:
- supporting studies,
- evidence of the candidate’s personal
development and outcome(s) in
response to the theme.
|
| Unit Two
Internally set and marked, externally
moderated.
8 hour exam
40% of AS Exam
|
Externally Set Assignment
Submissions must include:
- supporting studies,
- evidence of the candidate’s personal
development and outcome(s) in
response to the theme.
|
Structure of the Course
This course will be taught for 6 lessons per week. Homework will be set weekly and deadlines
must be adhered to. Reading of textbooks and first-hand experience of works of art and design is
essential.
Recommended Reading
The Complete Guide to Drawing Techniques and Materials, Colin Hayes
Phaidon Press 1993
The 20th Century Art Book, Susannah Lawson.Phaidon Press 1999
Visual arts in the Twentieth Century Lawrence King publishing 1996
