Art Curriculum Information
Art Curriculum Information
Intent
Through Art we aim to ensure pupils are confident in responding to a variety of stimuli using a wide range of media and approaches. The curriculum has been designed to allow all pupils to understand how visual arts contribute to a wide range of cultural contexts and develop understanding of artistic movements and how they have informed the development of visual culture across a range of platforms
Aims for Key Stage 3
By the end of Key Stage 3 pupils will be able to:
- record and present their own ideas in drawing, 3D, printmaking, photography and using digital media.
- recognise specific artworks from different cultures and be able to discuss and write about these using subject specific vocabulary.
- research different contextual topics and apply findings to own creative works.
- Recognise works by genre. Impressionism, cubism, abstract, expressionism, Pop Art.
- Be able to draw comparisons with historical events and link subject matter, visual language and imagery to these contexts.
In Key Stage 3 pupils study 1 hour of Art per week.
The topics studied include: Illustration themes, colour themes, building themes, African masks, landscapes, print making, Pop art, Surrealism, natural forms
Aims for Key Stage 4
By the end of the course, pupils will be able to know and understand:
- The way sources inspire the development of ideas, relevant to fine art including:
- how sources relate to individual, social, historical, environmental, cultural, ethical and/or issues-based contexts
- how ideas, themes, forms, feelings and concerns can inspire personally determined responses that are primarily aesthetic, intellectual or conceptual.
- The ways in which meanings, ideas and intentions relevant to fine art can be communicated including the use of:
- figurative representation, abstraction, stylisation, simplification, expression, exaggeration and imaginative interpretation
- visual and tactile elements, such as colour, line, form, tone, texture, shape, composition, rhythm, scale, structure and surface.
By the end of the course, pupils will be able to demonstrate the ability to use fine art techniques and processes, appropriate to students’ personal intentions, for example:
- mark-making
- monoprint, collagraph and block printing
- assemblage
- construction
- carving
- film and video
- digital working methods
- use media and materials, as appropriate to students’ personal intentions, for example:
- charcoal, pastels, pen and ink, crayons and pencil
- watercolour, gouache, acrylic and oil paint
- found materials
- clay, wood and metal
- digital imagery
- different papers and surfaces on which to work.
In Key Stage 4 if pupils have taken Art they will study AQA GCSE Art (Fine Art) for 3 hours per week.