The study of Art in its historical and contemporary forms gives students crucial knowledge of world civilisations. It gives students visual and analytical skills that can be applied in many walks of life as well as the tools with which to understand how images and objects work to shape our social and political identities. The Edexcel specification has been designed to fulfil the following objectives: • To foster an understanding of the relationship between society, culture, technology, politics and art and to make comprehensible the ways in which art has been used and interpreted both in the past and in the present; • To develop an understanding of how visual language is used by artists to communicate ideas, including formal characteristics, materials, techniques, and processes; • To ensure that students are presented with a range of material that allows them to analyse and make critical judgements about art; • To give students an opportunity to study a sufficient range of artists and works of art to ensure an appropriate depth and breadth of understanding of specified movements/periods and themes.
Seven Grade 5's at GCSE. Grade 6 at GCSE in related subjects.
The examination consists of two written papers, each of three hours duration: Paper 1: Visual Analysis and Themes (50% of the qualification) • Section A: Visual Analysis: For each of the three most important art forms (painting, sculpture, architecture) students must answer a single compulsory question that requires them to comment upon an unseen photograph of a work of art. • Section B: Themes: Students will study Identities in Art and Architecture and War in Art and Architecture. For each theme, students must answer a single compulsory question in two parts. Paper 2: Periods (50% of the qualification) Students must choose two periods from a choice of five. For each period students answer a single compulsory question in four parts. • The Renaissance in Italy (1420 to 1520) • The Baroque in Catholic Europe (1597 to 1685) • The British and French Avant-Garde (1848 to 99) • Modernism in Europe (1900 to 1939) • British and American contemporary art and architecture (1960 to 2015)
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| Local Authority | Gloucestershire |
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| Boarding Fee | Day £28,785; Boarding £42,750 - £46,500 |
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The study of Art in its historical and contemporary forms gives students crucial knowledge of world civilisations. It gives students visual and analytical skills that can be applied in many walks of life as well as the tools with which to understand how images and objects work to shape our social and political identities. The Edexcel specification has been designed to fulfil the following objectives: • To foster an understanding of the relationship between society, culture, technology, politics and art and to make comprehensible the ways in which art has been used and interpreted both in the past and in the present; • To develop an understanding of how visual language is used by artists to communicate ideas, including formal characteristics, materials, techniques, and processes; • To ensure that students are presented with a range of material that allows them to analyse and make critical judgements about art; • To give students an opportunity to study a sufficient range of artists and works of art to ensure an appropriate depth and breadth of understanding of specified movements/periods and themes.
Seven Grade 5's at GCSE. Grade 6 at GCSE in related subjects.
The examination consists of two written papers, each of three hours duration: Paper 1: Visual Analysis and Themes (50% of the qualification) • Section A: Visual Analysis: For each of the three most important art forms (painting, sculpture, architecture) students must answer a single compulsory question that requires them to comment upon an unseen photograph of a work of art. • Section B: Themes: Students will study Identities in Art and Architecture and War in Art and Architecture. For each theme, students must answer a single compulsory question in two parts. Paper 2: Periods (50% of the qualification) Students must choose two periods from a choice of five. For each period students answer a single compulsory question in four parts. • The Renaissance in Italy (1420 to 1520) • The Baroque in Catholic Europe (1597 to 1685) • The British and French Avant-Garde (1848 to 99) • Modernism in Europe (1900 to 1939) • British and American contemporary art and architecture (1960 to 2015)