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In art, craft and design, pupils explore visual, tactile and other sensory experience to communicate ideas and meanings. They work with traditional and new media, developing confidence, competence, imagination and creativity. They learn to appreciate and value images and artefacts across times and cultures, and to understand the contexts on which they were made. In art, craft and design, pupils reflect critically on their own and other people's work, judging quality, value and meaning. They learn to think and act as artist, craftspeople and designers, working creatively and intelligently. they develop an appreciation of art, craft and design, and its role in the cultural industries that enrich their lives.
Project 1 Architecture
Focus: Drawing skills (tone) and printmaking
Context: Art and Designing for living
In this project students will also gain an understanding of some of the constraints Architects have to consider when developing ideas for public building.
Outline
Students are introduced to basic drawing skills, learning how to control a range of media when applying line, tone and texture.
Students then work in groups researching and exploring architecture. As a result of this research they develop ideas for the façade of their own public building, a Mosque, a school or a hospital. Finally students are introduced to printmaking using their best design idea to create a print using textural collage material.
Project 2 Lost in Lace
Focus: Colour theory and painting skills
Context: Art and Design for Decoration
In this project students will also gain an understanding of how artists and designers use colour and colour theory when designing and developing products.
Outline
Students are introduced to colour theory through the practical application of a range of media.
Students work in groups researching and exploring artists and designer’s use of colour.
From the starting point of a drawing of lace students apply their understanding of colour theory in the development of ideas for surface pattern, for instance fabric, wallpaper, wrapping paper.
Project 1 Still Life
Focus: Observational drawing skills and colour application
Context: Art & Design for Illustration
In this project students will also gain an understanding of how common items inform the work of artists and illustrators.
Outline
Students work in groups researching and exploring work by a range of artists and illustrators.
Students produce observational studies from still life groups.
Students work in groups to produce a range of greetings cards in the style of the artists they have explored.
Project 2Sculpture project
Focus: Exploring art movements. Designing and making 3D sculpture
Context: Art and design for making
In this project students will also gain an understanding of how art movements and the art and craft of different cultures, informs the design of useful objects.
Outline
In this project students will explore the key elements of a C20 art movement Cubism and artwork of different cultures.
Students will use these influences to design and make a useful and decorative holder for a specific item/s.
Project 1 ‘A brick in the wall’
Focus: Focussed contextual understanding, lettering skills and relief sculpture
Context: Art & Design for social change
In this project students will also gain an understanding of how artists express feelings about social and political situations using significant landmarks.
Outline
Students will carry out research into walls that have been used to divide people, ‘The Berlin Wall’ & ’West Bank Barrier’. They will then study the work of artists Mohammad Ali and Banksy.
Students will develop ideas using lettering and graphic communication to express feelings about the impact of barriers and walls on individual lives.
Students will create final pieces in low relief that can be joined together like bricks in a wall.
Project 2 Banners of Bradford
Focus:
Context: Art & Design for cultural understanding and public spaces
In this project students will also gain an understanding of how artists draw on art and craft work from different times and places to develop and enhance environments.
Outline
Students will carry out research into artists who’s work has strong cultural influences and is exhibited in public spaces for instance Michael Brennan Wood.
Students will research the art work of the many different cultures that exist in Bradford and use their understanding to make designs for banners to decorate a public space in Bradford.
Year 10 and 11 GCSE
Art and Design prepares students for progression to further study in preparation for a wide range of careers which include film and television, advertising, illustration, photography, product design, graphic design, museum and gallery work, teaching and art therapy.
Year 10 and 11 GCSE
Outline
Year 10 and 11 GCSE
Outline
This is a two year course through which students develop a range of skills and techniques when using a variety of media and materials. They explore imagery from a range of artistic traditions and experiment with a range of media in order to express ideas and develop outcomes which can be 2D, 3D, functional or decorative.
Students will complete at least two major projects and a controlled test through which they address a particular theme, for example;
- Events
- Decoration
- Word and Image
- Tradition
- Natural form
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