Art, Year 9

Aims of the course
In Year 9 the Art Department aims to serve two main functions. Firstly, we seek to provide those leaving Art at the end of Year 9 with a meaningful and challenging finale to their formal Art education. Secondly, we seek to introduce students to more mature working methodologies and themes that, in some parts, prepare those continuing on to study GCSE Art. Our students undertake more ambitious projects, clearly linking their work to artists. More diverse media and mixed-media approaches are explored. Projects may vary in terms of starting points and artist research, but the core skills are addressed in a consistent manner.

Please note that this is a ‘rolling programme’ that is interchangeable throughout the year to provide equal access to facilities such as the ceramics room and print-making. All students will produce work in their art book as well as on a larger scale beyond the books.

Summary overview of the programme
Core texts: Art drawing books required (continue on with year 8 books or purchase a new one form the Art Department at the start of the year)

Term 1 and 2: Pop Art Project
This project is designed to introduce Year 9 students to working with a range of media to complete a series of large-scale pieces from one set theme.

  • Critical and contextual research – Pop Art, Warhol and Lichtenstein
  • Pop Art faces in oil pastel – black and white, and complementary colour
  • Plans for prints
  • Three colour lino-prints
  • Critical and contextual research – Pop Art sculptors/ Claus Oldenburg
  • Logo paintings
  • Developmental work – developing paintings into sculptures
  • Logo sculptures
  • Student and teacher evaluation

 
Term 2 and 3: Architecture Project
This project is designed to introduce Year 9 students to the notion of using mixed media and experimental approaches to complete a body of work from one set theme.

  • Initial visual research – looking at buildings
  • A series of mixed media responses looking at the starting points in a varied manner
  • Developmental work – collage
  • Printmaking
  • Critical and contextual research – Anselm Kiefer, John Piper or Cubism
  • Colour work in oil pastel and paint – abstracting shapes
  • Student and teacher evaluation

Assessment
Students will be monitored throughout the projects and assessed formally at the end of each project. This assessment will take into account preparatory work that is produced mainly in class but also through homework tasks.

The assessment will also be based on the large-scale art work produced during each project. Students are assessed according to the following assessment framework:

Research – written and visual in the art books (classwork and homework)
Final outcome (classwork)
All students will keep a copy of the assessment sheets to stick into their art book.