Art and Design

Art and Design deals with the creative and imaginative development of the students ability to engage with the visual world. The skills taught in this subject are fundamental in developing an all round creative skills base and form an essential part of a broad and balanced curriculum. The subject is especially concerned with the development of visual perception and aesthetic experience. It is a form of communication; a means of expressing ideas, opinions, feelings and developing those ideas through the production of personal responses to a given stimulus.

Why do we teach Art and Design

Whether theyre digitally manipulating images on the computer or getting the feel of textiles or clay or using traditional drawing and painting, students use art and design to look afresh at the world around them. Experimenting with colours, materials, textures and patterns or trying out new processes helps them communicate what they see, feel and imagine. They study different disciplines of artwork from murals to sculptures and discover how images can tell stories or express ideas. They learn how art, craft and design enrich our lives and can lead to many kinds of interesting and creative careers. Many of the careers of the future will require people with creative and imaginative learning skills. Art provides an essential aspect of every students development. The fundamental purpose of art and design is to develop the visual understanding of all students to the best of their ability, and in doing so, maximise their creative potential wherever their future choices ultimately take them.

Teaching and Learning for every student

Students are taught to:

Record from direct observation and personal experience Explore and develop ideas drawn from their imagination and experience, from their own observations and from the material they have collected in their sketchbook; Develop ideas to suit different purposes and audiences; Express themselves through experimentation and risk-taking with an expanded range of materials and innovation through the inventive use of materials, tools, techniques and processes, mixing and adapting them to achieve a variety of effects Develop technical competence and manipulative skills necessary to form, compose and communicate in two and three dimensions to solve problems in visual and tactile forms to develop their work further;
Look at art, craft and design from different times, societies, cultures and from a variety of art forms. They begin to think about the ways in which audiences and art works influence and change each other.

Review their own and others' work, saying what they think and feel about it, and use critical feedback

Form intuitive and imaginative outcomes and responses showing critical and analytical faculties via an interest in the awareness of different environments and cultures from a variety of times; Build their own confidence, enthusiasm and a sense of achievement in the practice of Art and Design

The above form the foundation skills of the course

They do this on their own, via the support of their teacher and through working with others, using a range of starting points (such as their own experiences, natural and made materials and objects, the local environment). They look at a range of work (for example, looking at originals and reproductions, going to galleries and museums, researching on the internet). During Key Stage 3 pupils develop their creativity and imagination through more sustained activities. These help them to build on and improve their practical and critical skills and to extend their knowledge and experience of materials, processes and practices. They engage confidently with art, craft and design from different times and cultures and in the contemporary world. They become more independent in using visual language to communicate their own ideas, feelings and meanings

IGCSE Art and Design

The GCSE in Art and Design is primarily a practical course with most lessons concerned with the production of the students own artwork. The GCSE Subject Criteria for Art & Design require not only the development of practical artistic skills and abilities but it also encourages students to explore and understand art and its various contexts. The course embraces the belief that the study of art and the exploration of imagination and creativity form an essential part of a broad and balanced education. Students are both practitioners and critics and are encouraged to develop independently under the guidance of their teacher. This understanding forms the basis of the course and the examination. The Edexcel GCSE in Art and Design encourages an adventurous, expressive and enquiring approach to art and design. Successful students should be able to demonstrate an understanding of past and contemporary art and design practice and be able to produce a personal response that embraces a range of ideas, concepts, media and processes.

The IGCSE Course

The course consists of two units of coursework, each supported by a journal. Each project follows a process of development in the form of a journey of exploration. This journey is divided into stages guided by key assessment objectives: Develop their ideas through investigations informed by contextual and other sources, demonstrating analytical and cultural understanding Refine their ideas through experimenting and selecting appropriate resources, media, materials, techniques and processes Record ideas, observations and insights relevant to their intentions in visual and/or other forms Present a personal, informed and meaningful response demonstrating analytical and critical understanding, realising intentions and, where appropriate, making connections between visual, written, oral or other elements The disciplines associated with the unendorsed Art and Design GCSE are Painting and Drawing, Printmaking, Sculpture, Alternative Media, Scenography, Architectural or Environmental or Interior Design, Jewellery, Product Design, Ceramic Design, Constructed Textiles, Dyed Textiles, Printed Textiles, Fine Art Textiles, Fashion Textiles, Film-Based Photography, Digital Photography, Moving Image, Photography Genres,

Advertising, Illustration, Packaging, Typography and Interactive Media. Students will be required to work in two or more of the disciplines in each unit submitted and demonstrate competence in using a variety of materials

GCSE and A Level GCE in AS and A Level Art & Design The GCE A Level in Art and Design has been designed to encourage an adventurous and enquiring approach to art and design. Successful students should be able to demonstrate an understanding of past and contemporary art and design practice and be able to produce artwork that embraces a range of ideas. Students are encouraged to develop: An adventurous and enquiring mind over a range of concepts and ideas The ability to take risks, experiment with ideas, media and processes Investigative, analytical, experimental, practical, technical skills in relation to their study of art & design The integration and connection of knowledge and understanding of art, from other times and cultures, and contemporary work to their own creative practice Intellectual, imaginative, creative and intuitive powers Expressive skills, aesthetic understanding and critical judgment An understanding of the interrelationships between art and design and the historical, social, cultural, political and creative contexts in which they operate Students develop further reasoning in their ideas and explore numerous methods of expressing their thoughts via appropriate choices and intentions Skills and techniques by taking risks, experimenting with ideas, media and processes leading to an outcomes which may be expressed in a range of formats. http://www.alicesmith.edu.my/html/s02_article/article_view.asp?view=print&art_id=218&nav_cat_i d=134&nav_top_id=58&artgen=1&t=0.5394963884302367