Easter Revision Courseguide

A Level History of Art

Aims        

1. To  provide students with the confidence to tackle
any examination question they may encounter.

2. To build and consolidate a knowledge of the underlying concepts and contexts in the production of art.

3. To provide students with technique whereby they may express their knowledge and ideas effectively.

4.  To introduce students to effective examination techniques and revision methods.

Daily Programme        

Broadly, the course will cover one of the major topics each day. Addressing itself to the major pictorial and sculptural stylistic trends, major historical events, cultural/philosophical changes and the manner in which they were translated into visual form.

Each day will begin with a short test of the previous day’s work (day 1 excluded).  There will then be an examination of the main underlying concepts and contexts of each period with reference to the causal relationship with particular key works of the period.

Then possible examination questions relating to these will be discussed and essay plans/summaries produced.

At the end of each day, students will be given a list of past examination questions relating to the work covered that day and be expected to produce essay plans intended to provide a useful set of structured notes and to build confidence.

Final Day        

Students will be set an examination on the work done during the week. Advice will be given to students on the best manner in which to proceed with their revision leading up to the examination.

Schedule of work

AS

The AS course examines all the significant developments in European painting and sculpture from classical Greek and Rome to the twentieth century (Modernism), placing its emphasis on the following:
Classical Greece and Rome, the Medieval Period, The Italian Renaissance, and the late Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries
The course will cover all the underlying concepts, placing the art and artists in their social and historical context.

A2

The A2 course will cover all the main options in the AQA syllabus: Art and Architecture in Early Renaissance Florence, High Renaissance Rome, Baroque Rome; Art in the Age of Revolution, the Impressionist Period and Modern Painting in Paris 1900-1914.