History of Art

Assessment

Paper One: Visual Analysis and Themes • Visual Analysis: in the first third of the paper, students analyse and interpret three unseen photographs of a painting, a sculpture and a building, and deploying specialist terminology. • Themes: the remaining two-thirds of the paper is dedicated to two thematic topics: • Identities in art and architecture • War in art and architecture Boys will study artworks from beyond the Western canon of art to make both historical and geographic links. In addition to the selected artworks (spanning painting, sculpture and architecture), boys will also study secondary sources. Paper Two: Periods Boys will focus on specific historical moments to see how contemporary beliefs and ideas are reflected in the visual arts. Boys will study two periods for this paper: • Invention and illusion: the Renaissance in Italy (1420–1520) • Brave New World: Modernism in Europe (1900–39)