Art

Course summary

The A-level Art and Design course provides students with exciting opportunities to develop personal creative responses to ideas, observations, experiences, environments and cultures in practical, critical and contextual forms. Students are introduced to a variety of experiences employing a range of appropriate media, processes and techniques and build upon the knowledge, understanding and skills gained at GCSE with greater depth of study. Students will learn how to follow a creative process, in which they explore and develop approaches to communicating ideas visually. They will explore how to generate and develop new ideas and develop their intellectual, imaginative, creative and intuitive capabilities. Students will learn to be pro-active, persistent and self-motivated, developing independence of mind in developing, refining and communicating their own ideas, their own intentions and their own personal outcomes in order to produce creative, dynamic and exciting outcomes. Students will understand how art and design can inspire and challenge the viewer through interaction with their work and engagement with their ideas and continue to develop their interest and enjoyment of art and design whilst building their knowledge and understanding of art and design and media and technologies in contemporary and past societies and cultures.