Art and Design (Fine Art)

Course summary

Students wanting to take A-Level Art will be exploring ideas that are personal to them and looking to refine their skills and critical understanding of Fine Art creative processes, so that they can express their innermost questions and to state them in powerful visual Art pieces to the world. Fine Art enables all individuals to participate in the world and to co-create its values. In A-level Art students take their Fine Art exploration into a new level, exploring extensively with different media and sources that allows them to broaden up possibilities to build their personal visual language in exciting and insightful ways. The first year will focus on encouraging students to approach new media and refinement of mark making skills, and to reflect on building a unique personal language and path of thematic exploration. This will include experimental ceramics, textiles, and printmaking. Towards the end of the first year, students will start focusing on their personal investigation, and deepening their contextualization studies. This includes a written essay on their theme of choice where students state their starting points and threads of investigation, referring to artistic contextualization, and personal approaches, and reflecting on the main aspects that lead to the buildup of the visual language of their artworks.