History of Art

Assessment

Our subject content is divided into three areas: • Visual Analysis: In Year 12 you develop the ability to undertake effective visual analysis and build knowledge and understanding of key terminology. You study painting, graphic works, sculpture, designed objects and architecture from 500 BCE to the present. • Themes: In Year 12 you also explore two themes: Nature and Identities, relating global works of art and architecture to issues like environment, class, gender, nationality or ethnicity. • Periods: In Year 13 the study of a historical period allows you to research and explore in detail and depth, the key movements, concepts, artists, architects, contextual factors and related developments of art and architecture in a specific place, and across a clearly defined time- frame. You will study The British and French AvantGarde (1848-1899) and Modernism in Europe (1900–39). You will sit two, three-hour written examinations, each worth 50% of your qualification.