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GCSE Fine Art
Fine Art is perhaps the most traditional of the art-based subjects we offer at
GCSE, as it teaches and strengthens a student’s abilities to record the world
around them artistically. This course can provide essential learning for those
students who wish to further their artistic journey and potentially work in a
related field later on.
The ability to be able to use traditional artistic techniques with confidence still
underpins the abilities of all good designers. Studying this subject can not only
allow students to develop their own practical abilities but can greatly increase
their appreciation of the aesthetic world around them.
This course offers students the aesthetic foundations necessary to equip
themselves for a future career in the arts and plays to individual students’
strengths and interests. This broad-based art course teaches students
observational skills that many design-based subjects will require. As the course
progresses, students learn to work with autonomy and personalise their own
emerging art style into areas such as: landscape, portraiture, miniature painting,
abstraction, narrative art, impasto techniques or working with relief.
This course not only allows students a gateway to a career in the arts but allows
them the opportunity to work in a stimulating creative environment.
Course Outline:
This course contains 2
components as listed
below:
1. Unit 1 Portfolio of Work
(60% of the course)
• Terms 1 & 2 – Still Life
Studies
• Terms 3 & 4 –
Portraiture
2. Unit 2 Examination Unit
(40% of the course)
• Term 5 – Examination
Project
Examination Board:
AQA
Head of Department:
Mr A J Grantham-Smith
“I like Fine Art because it is so nice to have a break from my academic choices.
I really enjoy each week’s new assignment and using new creative ideas and
different materials in them.”
Eden Norris