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Assessment objectives
A01 - Developing ideas through investigation, demonstrating critical understanding of sources
A02 - Refining work by exploring ideas, selecting and experimenting with appropriate media, materials, techniques and processes
A03 - Recording ideas, observations and insights relevant to your intentions as work progresses
A04 - Presenting a personal and meaningful response that realises intentions and demonstrates understanding of visual language
A02 - Refining work by exploring ideas, selecting and experimenting with appropriate media, materials, techniques and processes
A03 - Recording ideas, observations and insights relevant to your intentions as work progresses
A04 - Presenting a personal and meaningful response that realises intentions and demonstrates understanding of visual language
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human figure
From perfecting proportions and experimenting with materials, to exploring cultures, to the aging body, to twisting and distorting tormented souls, femininity, sexuality, abstracting, movement of the body, narratives and story telling, the presence of a human figure without the human figure, the body at art, performance art.
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connections
in the news
Artists responses to news, from headline-grabbing events and social or political issues, to stories of the extraordinary everyday, conflict and war, environment, violence, society's reaction to the news, big events effecting the lives of all, collecting newspaper clippings, how we get our news and social media, fake news, documentary photography, graffiti, protests and propaganda
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light and Dark
Explore monochrome compositions through patterns and shapes, op Art or negative space focus, shadows and contrast with bright lights, architectural structures or natural forms, natural and man-made light, times of day and night, feeling and meaning of dark and light
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materials
‘It ‘aint what you use it’s the way that you use it’.
Everyday materials to found objects and juxtaposition, using natural objects, textures, fluidity, assemblages, pushing things to the limits of what they can do, washes, splits layers, removes, take-away, carve into, materials not as what they seem |