Unit 1: Modern Art – Value / Topic
–––Formative – Full Draft Due: 11/3 Friday
–––Summative Assessment Due: 25/3 Friday
Task sheets, Assessment statements, Achievement Criteria, Exemplars & Resources will be shared with you via Google Docs. Please also refer to the Wall Calendar in class for check points and deadlines
Task sheets, Assessment statements, Achievement Criteria, Exemplars & Resources will be shared with you via Google Docs. Please also refer to the Wall Calendar in class for check points and deadlines
L2 – AS91184 V2, 4 Credits, Internal Assessment: Communicate Understanding of an Art Histories Topic
L3 – AS91487 V1, 4 Credits, Internal Assessment: Examine Values of Artworks
Our will focus will be Jackson Pollock's Abstract Expressionist paintings and Andy Warhol's Brillo Boxes. We have approximately 5 1/2 weeks for this work. Refer to the wall calendar in class for time allowances and deadlines.
Unit 2: Modern Art – Media, Methods & Processes
–––Formative –First Draft Due Term 1: 11/4 Monday
–––Formative –FULL Draft Due Term 2: 6/5 Friday
–––Summative Assessment Due Term 2: 18/5 Wednesday
We'll continue comparing the work of Jackson Pollock, such as his later work from 1950-53, & Andy Warhol's later works made around 1986, with a focus on contrasting Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art in New York post WWII. There is the option of looking at other artists of your choice, for example level 2 students might be interested in researching artists and artworks from Towards Modernism?
Task sheets, Assessment statements, Achievement Criteria, Exemplars & Resources will be shared with you via Google Docs. Refer to the wall calendar in class for time allowances and deadlines.
L3 - AS91485 V2, 4 Credits, Internal Assessment: Examine the Impact of Media & Processes on Style and Meaning.
Photography is a medium that can sometimes be overlooked. There's the medium of Photography that's based in film and the medium that's based in pixels. While you might think you know what film is, click this link from Ilford to learn more.
Unit 3: Postmodern and Contemporary Art
–––Formative – Full Draft Due Term 3: 5/8 Thursday
Photography is a medium that can sometimes be overlooked. There's the medium of Photography that's based in film and the medium that's based in pixels. While you might think you know what film is, click this link from Ilford to learn more.
Unit 3: Postmodern and Contemporary Art
–––Formative – Full Draft Due Term 3: 5/8 Thursday
–––Summative Assessment Due Term 3: 19/8 Thursday
For the remaining weeks of term 3 and the start of term 4 we're focusing on Postmodern and Contemporary Art, Art Theory and art practice for Unit 3.
L2 - AS91185 V2, 4 Credits, Internal Assessment: Communicate a Considered Personal Response to the experience of a recent visit to an art exhibition.
L3 - AS91488 V2, 4 Credits, Internal Assessment: Examine the Relationships between a Theory and Artworks. For example: Consumerism, Feminism, Postmodernism or the Art World. The content of this unit also helps prepare Level 3 for the exams which will be the focus of the next unit.
Unit 4: Contemporary Art and its Antecedants – Preparation for External Exams
We'll examine a wider range of artists and their practice by going back to the earliest beginnings of Modernism and looking at the main factors that have led to significant change.
Task sheets, Assessment statements, Achievement Criteria, Exemplars & Resources will be shared with you via Google Docs. Refer to the wall calendar in class for time allowances and deadlines.
L3 - AS91488 V2, 4 Credits, Internal Assessment: Examine the Relationships between a Theory and Artworks. For example: Consumerism, Feminism, Postmodernism or the Art World. The content of this unit also helps prepare Level 3 for the exams which will be the focus of the next unit.
Unit 4: Contemporary Art and its Antecedants – Preparation for External Exams
We'll examine a wider range of artists and their practice by going back to the earliest beginnings of Modernism and looking at the main factors that have led to significant change.
Term 3 – Week 1; Introduction to Towards Modernism
Week 2-3; Introduction to Early Modernism
Week 3-4; Introduction to Modernism
Week 4-5; Introduction to Post-Modernism
Meanwhile... We'll prepare for external exams
Meanwhile... We'll prepare for external exams
For both L2 & L3 in Term 3 we'll begin Unit 4: Context
L2 - AS91182 V2, 4 Credits, External Assessment: Examine the Influence of Contexts on Artworks.
L3 – AS91484 V2, 4 Credits, External Assessment: Examine the Relationships between Art and Context.
L3 – AS91484 V2, 4 Credits, External Assessment: Examine the Relationships between Art and Context.
We'll also examine the Contexts related to these Areas.
Google quizzes will be shared with you on a regular basis throughout the term leading to Assessment Week and Mock Exams.
We'll also examine the Contexts related to these Areas.
The content covered during this unit also helps prepare L3 students for Scholarship questions.
Google quizzes will be shared with you on a regular basis throughout the term leading to Assessment Week and Mock Exams.
The teacher will direct you to the task below if necessary
Warm-Up Writing Task ---
Start a Google doc, title as follows: "Surname, First Name, Value"
Share with Mr Soltero (slm@ papanui.school.nz) – tick "allow editing"
Note: all draft ideas, notes & research go on the same document
– please only work in this one document that you share with me for this task
For those of you who are new to Art Histories – please follow this quick task:
New Students Only – Your First Writing task involves considering one of the following QUESTIONS:
- What is Art?, What is Art For?, What does Art Do?
- If you completed this task last year, click here for a different version.
- 1. LOOK at the album cover art in this link
- 2. SELECT one artist/album cover to write about – Right click on the image to "save as" to your desktop, then insert in your doc.
- 3. READ – Use this link to Read about the exhibition – at the bottom is another link to the book that has been produced for the exhibition.
- 4. READ - Google search the band, find out a little about them, listen to their music from the album.
- 5. READ - About the artist who made the album cover
- 6. WRITE – GETTING ALL IDEAS OUT:
- A. Select one of the questions above to respond to,
- B. Make a table for notes as per example below.
- In each section write everything you can – ie Do Not Edit or Self-Sensor!
- 7. WRITE – SELECTING FROM IDEAS - Scan your notes for a concept that could form the basis of your main idea about the album artwork.
- 8. WRITE – GATHERING YOUR NOTES TOGETHER – Use the different sections to structure your thoughts. Form the first draft of your opening paragraph by focusing on the main idea you want to discuss in response to the question. The second paragraph should expand on the main idea. When you've got about 400 words follow the steps below.
- 9. GO TO the Writing Help Tab above. READ. Edit your writing (don't delete anything). When you edit by cutting words out, paste them well below your writing to keep them for later.
- 10. ARRANGE what you've written into three sections; A: What is it? B; What might it mean? C: Why does it matter? You might like to use these headings at first, but later you'll need to delete those headings so your writing flows.
- 11. REVIEW – If some sections seem more empty than others, go back and see if you can find out more, read more or simply think – in order to fill out those sections a little more in-depth. Although your submission will be a maximum of 300-400 words.
- 12. SCAN for what your writing is telling your reader. What it is? What it might mean? for example in consideration of the artist's typical work, and finally Why it matters? for example - to art, music or the audiences of either/both?
