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Higher Art and Design |
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Rationale Art and Design promotes aesthetic understanding, visual awareness, knowledge and appreciation. It encourages candidates to use a range of media and technology to understand, appreciate and respond to their world in creative visual and non-visual ways. It promotes creative thinking, innovation and enterprise, and encourages self-reliance, initiative, problem solving and the development of personal opinions and imagery. Candidates for Advanced Higher Art and Design are required to produce a body of work which explores an area of study in depth. In their rationale the SQA highlight the importance of personal interests and sustained development of lines of thought and action. Students can have difficulty deciding on an appropriate area of study and the Anatomy Acts exhibition provides students with a wealth of inspiration for their own work. The drawings and models are stunning in themselves, but it is perhaps the thought-provoking nature of the exhibition that will encourage students to form a personal response and follow their own line of investigation. The area chosen for study should be sufficiently rich in intellectual and aesthetic opportunities to promote intensity and depth of study and should take account of relevant artistic, historical and cultural influences. Three works by contemporary artists were specially commissioned for the exhibition and one is displayed on each level. This provides an ideal opportunity for students to explore how artists have responded visually to the issues raised by the exhibition. The following can be used by teachers to structure and
inform an exhibition visit and includes suggested lessons as a
starting point for exploring a number of themes. |
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