KS3

Art at Key Stage 3

All Lower School students at Sutton Grammar School study Art at Key Stage 3.

 

Objectives:

  • Teach students how to think like artists
  • Instill the love for learning
  • Instill the love for art through open-ended, student-led projects
  • Give context through Art History (artists/movements)
  • Be better prepared for GCSE / A-level art

We focus on:

  • FUN OF LEARNING
  • EXPLORATION OF A WIDE VARIETY OF ART MATERIALS & TECHNIQUES
  • ENCOURAGING EXPERIMENTATION
  • TEACHING ART HISTORY (Chronologically)
  • CREATIVE CAREERS
  • CONTEMPORARY PRACTICES
  • THE BUILDING BLOCKS/TOOLS OF ART (The Formal Elements)
  • THE RULES OF ART (the Principles of Art & Design)

This is what we do to achieve our objectives:

  • The Formal Elements of Art & Design integrated into each project
  • The Principles of Design integrated into each project
  • Art history is taught to give context to each project
  • Contemporary artists are included with each art history lesson to create real-life links
  • Creative careers are highlighted and linked to individual projects
  • Each project explores a different art medium/technique
  • Each year, the techniques are scaffolded. For example, year 7s are introduced to printmaking through monoprints. Year 8s use foam plates to make prints. Year 9s use perplex to make etchings. Year 10s make collographs using the printing press. Year 11s make linocuts using the printing press. Year 12s do screenprinting. Year 13s make prints using chemicals processes.

KS3 ASSESSMENT

  • Rubric
  • Quizzes every 3-4 weeks (online)
  • Verbal feedback
  • Written feedback given with each grades artwork
  • Written or stamped feedback in students' sktetchbooks (linked to objectives)

Homework is set fortnightly and provides an opportunity for independent work and research. Tasks are always set with the aim of extending and reinforcing the students' classroom learning.

Teaching and learning takes place in two light and spacious art rooms. The pupils can arrange to use these rooms at lunchtimes and during lunch-time Art Club. They are encouraged to use this time, space - and the available staff support - to develop personal projects, finish classwork and engage in creative activities for other subject areas (eg. making props for school productions, or models for history projects).

Independent learning is encouraged and all class/homework projects are designed such that there is ample space for each student to explore his personal interests and ideas.

Year 7

Pre-and Early History

  • Stone Age Paintings / Lascaux, Rouffignac cave paintings
  • Mesopotamia: Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, Assyria
  • Egypt / Nefertiti
  • Aboriginal Australian Art - Dreamtime
  • Bronze / Iron Ages in Central Europe
  • China

Antiquity

  • Archaic sculpture / Architecture
  • Doryphorus - Canon of Proportions
  • Hellenistic Art

Middle Ages

  • Early Christian Art (cross, Jesus, Trinity)
  • Byzantine Period
  • Illuminated Manuscripts
  • Gothic Stained Glass
  • Islamic Art
  • Indian Miniatures

Sample Projects: Clay stamps inspired by Sumerian seals, Foil art inspired by the arts of Bronze/Iron ages, Newspaper straw houses inspired by architecture of Antiquity.

 

Year 8

Renaissance

  • Masaccio
  • Donatello
  • Brunelleschi
  • Sandro Botticelli - The Birth of Venus
  • Leonardo Da Vinci - Mona Lisa, Vitruvian Man
  • Michelangelo - David, The Creation of Adam
  • Raphael - The School of Athens
  • Giuseppe Arcimboldo
  • El Greco
  • Jan van Eyck - The Arnolfini Wedding
  • Albrecht Dürer

Baroque

  • Caravaggio
  • Rembrandt van Rijn - The Night Watch, Anatomy Lesson
  • Jan Vermeer - The Milkmaid, The Girl with the Pearl Earring
  • Deiego Velázques - Las Meninas

18th Century

Rococo

  • Jean-Honoré Fragonard - The Swing, A Young Girl Reading
  • Jean-Antoine Watteau - Pierrot

Neoclassicism

  • Jacques-Louis David - The Death of Marat
  • Goya - The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters

Printmaking in Asia

  • Hiroshige
  • Hokusai - The Great Wave

19th Century

Romanticism

  • Théodore Géricault - The Raft of the Medusa
  • Caspar David Friedrich - Wander Above the Sea of Fog
  • John Constable
  • Eugène Delacroix - Liberty Leading the People
  • William Turner

Victorian Classicism / Pre-Raphaelites

  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • James McNeill Whistler - Arrangement in Grey and Black

Realism / Naturalism

  • Jean-François Millet - The Gleaners
  • Eduard Manet

Impressionism

  • Edgar Degas - Little Dancer, Horses -(movement of legs)
  • Auguste Rodin - The Thinker, The Kiss - (clay)
  • Pierre-August Renoir - Le Moulin de la Galette
  • Claude Monet - Water Lillies, The Cathedral of Rouen - (light)
  • Georges Seurat - Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

 

Sample Projects: Pen self-portraits inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci, Chalk drawings on A2 black paper inspired by Baroque art, printmaking inspired by Hiroshige and Hokusai

Year 9

19th Century

Post-Impressionism

  • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
  • Paul Cézanne - La Montagne Sainte-Victoire
  • Vincent van Gogh - Potato Eaters, Starry Night, Sunflowers
  • Paul Gauguin

Symbolism

  • Edvard Munch - The Scream

Art Nouveau

  • Gustav Klimt - The Kiss

Primitivism

  • Amedeo Modigliani

Fauvis

  • André Derain
  • Henri Matisse - The Joy of Life

20th Century

Expressionism

  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • Wassily Kandinsky - Composition VI

Cubism

  • Pablo Picasso - Guernica
  • Marc Chagall

Futurism

  • Umberto Boccioni

Bauhaus

  • Paul Klee

Neoplasticism and De Stijl

  • Piet Mondrian

Dada

  • Marcel Duchamp

New Realism

  • Edward Hopper - Nighthawks
  • Frida Kahlo

Surrealism

  • Salvador Dali
  • Joan Miró
  • Man Ray

 

Sample Projects: Still-lives inspired by Post-Impressionists, Photomontages and collages inspired by Cubism; Paintings of dreams inspired by Surrealism