AS Fine Art Exam: Relationships
Relationships is the 2015 title for the AS Fine Art exam project (Unit 2). You will have a period of 8-10 weeks (plus the Spring half term and Easter holiday) to develop your ideas through preparatory studies before spending a day in the Art department realising your final outcome as part of the 8 hour, controlled assessment. You should aim to be ambitious in your final outcome and presentation.
The exam paper is full of ideas to help you get started. Your art teachers will also set class and home work tasks that will enable you to have the best start possible for your exam project. Make sure everything is documented clearly in your sketchbook.
The exam paper is full of ideas to help you get started. Your art teachers will also set class and home work tasks that will enable you to have the best start possible for your exam project. Make sure everything is documented clearly in your sketchbook.
HALF TERM HOMEWORK
- Complete task 4 on the powerpoint above.
- Present three starting points for the project- each idea should fill one page in your sketchbook and be supported by drawings, a rationale, artists and other relevant information or research. (read 'what's next' below)
- Use the link below to search for an exhibition that grabs your attention or links to one of your initial ideas. We recommend..
Ruth Ewan at Camden Arts Centre http://www.camdenartscentre.org/whats-on/view/ewan
Serpentine http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/#/exhibitions-events/reiner-ruthenbeck
Sarah Sze at Victoria Miro http://www.victoria-miro.com/
Katy Moran at Parasol Unit http://parasol-unit.org/
Luc Tuymans http://www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions-2/
You must also make sure that all work completed so far is documented in your sketchbook:
- Mind map
- In school Art intervention
- Out of school Art intervention
- Altering known pieces of Art
- Portraits of relatives
Annotate each task:
- What was the intention?
- How does it link to the theme?
- How well did you meet the brief?
- Connection to a relevant artist.
What's next...?
Once you have completed all the set tasks you need to consider three starting points for your own response to the theme. Each idea must be supported by a link to an artist and your own drawings. Look through the power point, the exam paper and also the links below to help you. Having said this, you can choose to build on any of the processes and themes visited during the set tasks above.
Project Expectations
Ensure that you have satisfied the following Assessment Objectives tasks by the end of the project:
AO1 - DEVELOP
Make sure all set tasks are completed. By the end of the project, we would like you to have analysed three images by artists relevant to your ideas using the Form, Process, Content structure we followed during the Marc Quinn analysis task within the last project. Use your research to inform your development. A good response does not mean an exact copy.
AO2 - EXPERIMENT
In order to show a good range of experimentation, start by taking 3 sets of different observations in response to 3 ideas based on your research. It is important to show refinement of ideas and techniques throughout the project. Make sure annotation considers subject, concept, approach, technique, formal elements etc as appropriate.
AO3 - RECORD
Remember that we are looking for a good technical and compositional understanding in your work, along with a clear explanation of ideas. This is where you can gain marks for your control of media. You can also gain marks for research and collecting of resources however, only collect what you need to move on practically.
AO4 - REALISE
Develop and refine your best ideas further working towards an exhibition outcome, which will be completed during your examination period (8-hours) at the beginning of the Summer Term.
Sketchbooks
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Here is a good example of a sketchbook that achieved full marks last year. Whilst there are a number of pieces that could be described as naive, the perseverance, quantity and quality of where she ends up delivers a highly successful project. Please observe:
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