Art & Technology

Externally Set Task

Please read the following information really carefully. It is here to help you organise, plan and assess your prep work. Feel free to download them and use them in your research.

Externally set task 2020

AO1
Developing ideas through investigations informed by contextual and other sources.

AO2
Refining ideas through experimenting and selecting appropriate resources, media, materials, techniques and processes.

AO3
Recording ideas, observations and insights relevant to your intentions in visual and / or other forms.

AO4
Presenting a personal, informed and meaningful response demonstrating analytical and critical understanding, realising intentions and, where appropriate ,making connections between visual, written, oral or other elements.

Externally set task 2020

GCSE Art - Year 11 Mock Externally Set Task

The Mock Exam is designed to give you a taste of what it is like to do the real exam. The examples given below are real responses to the actual exam and there are differences in times allowed between Mock and Actual Exams

REAL EXAM

PREP TIME approx 8 WEEKS

TIME ALLOWED FOR PRODUCTION OF FINAL PIECE 10 HOURS

MOCK EXAM

PREP TIME 3 WEEKS

TIME ALLOWED FOR PRODUCTION OF FINAL PIECE 5 HOURS

Your preperation sketchbook and final piece or pieces will be marked using the following ASSESSMENT OBJECTIVES.

HAVE YOU SHOWN EVIDENCE OF:-

AO1: Developing your ideas through investigations informed by contextual and other sources demonstrating analytical and cultural understanding

AO2: Refining your ideas through experimenting and selecting appropriate resources, media, materials, techniques and processes.

AO3: Recording ideas, observations and insights relevant to your intentions in visual and/or other forms.

AO4: Presenting a personal, informed and meaningful response demonstrating analytical and critical understanding, realizing intentions and where appropriate, making connections between visual, written, oral or other elements,

Example Questions

Choose ONE of the following starting points and produce a personal response.

1. Sense of Place

Artists, craftspeople and designers are sometimes inspired by their feeling for a particular place. Paul Cézanne made numerous paintings of Mont Sainte-Victoire and Anish Kapoor makes site-specific sculptures. Debra Budenburg makes sculptures that relate to home and family life. Other artists use photography, installation and video to explore how different surroundings affect people.

Research appropriate sources and produce your own work inspired by Sense of Place

2. Animals

In art and design, animals have been depicted in a variety of ways. Barry Flanagan sculpted the hare as a symbolic subject and textile artist Nicola Henley makes embroidered panels reflecting the aerial movement of coastal birds. Daniel Lee uses the digital technology to explore the relationship between man and animals. Franz Marc captured the dynamics of wild horses in his paintings.

Study appropriate sources and produce your own work inspired by Animals.

3. Buildings

Vicki Ambery-Smith designs jewellery based on historic and contemporary buildings. Jenny Holzer presents her digital messages on buildings. Photographer and video artist Gordon Matta-Clark’s series ‘Building Cuts’ reinterprets sections of buildings. Painter Ian Murphy records the details of eroded surfaces on Venetian buildings and 18th Century artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi made dramatic and fantastic drawings and prints detailing architectural features.

Research appropriate sources and produce your own work in any media based on :

EITHER (a) façades OR (b) structures

4. Music and Dance

David Hockney and Robert Rauschenberg have designed stage sets for music and dance performances. Michael Brennand-Wood makes textiles inspired by popular music and Kevin Laycock’s paintings interpret sound through abstraction. Many cultural traditions, such as the Indian dance-drama ‘Kathakali’, combine art, music and dance in performance.

Research appropriate sources and create your own work in response to Music and Dance.

5. ” In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832.

Artists, craftspeople and designers can be inspired by connections they see in nature. Andy Goldsworthy combines natural materials and reconnects them with the environment. Photographer Brett Weston recorded the rugged detail of the Californian coastline to show the connection between the land and the sea. Ceramicist Ewen Henderson made connections between textural qualities in his work and surfaces seen in nature.

Research appropriate sources and produce your own work in any media based on connections you see in nature.

6. Composition

Composition is a term used to describe how formal elements are arranged in art work. Bauhaus graphic design combines words, images, shapes and colours. Sculptors Tony Cragg, Nik Ramage and Bill Woodrow have arranged and assembled found materials. Ben Nicholson composed abstract reliefs. The Pollaiuolo brothers explored symmetry in their painting ‘The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian’.

Research appropriate sources and create your own composition in response to one of the following:

(a) combinations
(b) arrangements
(c) symmetry

7. Here and Now

You should make connections with appropriate sources when developing your personal response to one of the following suggestions:

(a) Develop your own interpretation of the starting point Here and Now.
(b) You could consider designing promotional material for a contemporary exhibition or gallery event.
(c) You might explore a current issue or event.

Resources

Below you will find resourses designed to help you to fulfil the requirements of the “Externally Set Task”. This includes suggested Artists to study and examples of good prep for some of the exam questions. Some questions were not answered so I have been unable to include relevant examples.

This is intended to give you experience of preparing for and producing your “Externally Set Task” once complete the mock prep. sketchbook and final piece will become part of your course work and contribute towards 60% of your final grade, so it’s really worth giving maximum effort.

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Example exam questions

Choose ONE of the following starting points and produce a personal response.

1. Sense of Place

Artists, craftspeople and designers are sometimes inspired by their feeling for a particular place. Paul Cézanne made numerous paintings of Mont Sainte-Victoire and Anish Kapoor makes site-specific sculptures. Debra Budenburg makes sculptures that relate to home and family life. Other artists use photography, installation and video to explore how different surroundings affect people.
Research appropriate sources and produce your own work inspired by Sense of Place.

Example of a Prep Sketchbook answering the “Sense of Place” question:

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2. Animals in Art and Design

Animals have been depicted in a variety of ways. Barry Flanagan sculpted the hare as a symbolic subject and textile artist Nicola Henley makes embroidered panels reflecting the aerial movement of coastal birds. Daniel Lee uses the digital technology to explore the relationship between man and animals. Franz Marc captured the dynamics of wild horses in his paintings. Study appropriate sources and produce your own work inspired by animals.

Example of “Animals” Prep book:

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3. Buildings

Vicki Ambery-Smith designs jewellery based on historic and contemporary buildings. Jenny Holzer presents her digital messages on buildings. Photographer and video artist Gordon Matta-Clark’s series ‘Building Cuts’ reinterprets sections of buildings. Painter Ian Murphy records the details of eroded surfaces on Venetian buildings and 18th Century artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi made dramatic and fantastic drawings and prints detailing architectural features.

Research appropriate sources and produce your own work in any media based on:

EITHER (a) façades or (b) structures

4. Music and Dance

David Hockney and Robert Rauschenberg have designed stage sets for music and dance performances. Michael Brennand-Wood makes textiles inspired by popular music and Kevin Lay**’s paintings interpret sound through abstraction. Many cultural traditions, such as the Indian dance-drama ‘Kathakali’, combine art, music and dance in performance.

Research appropriate sources and create your own work in response to Music and Dance.

Example of a prep book in response to the “Music and Dance” question:

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5. Nature

“In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it”

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832

Artists, craftspeople and designers can be inspired by connections they see in nature. Andy Goldsworthy combines natural materials and reconnects them with the environment. Photographer Brett Weston recorded the rugged detail of the Californian coastline to show the connection between the land and the sea. Ceramicist Ewen Henderson made connections between textural qualities in his work and surfaces seen in nature.

Research appropriate sources and produce your own work in any media based on connections you see in nature.

An example of a student’s response to the “Nature” question 5:

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6. Composition

Composition is a term used to describe how formal elements are arranged in art work. Bauhaus graphic design combines words, images, shapes and colours. Sculptors Tony Cragg, Nik Ramage and Bill Woodrow have arranged and assembled found materials. Ben Nicholson composed abstract reliefs. The Pollaiuolo brothers explored symmetry in their painting ‘The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian’.

Research appropriate sources and create your own composition in response to one of the following:

(a) combinations
(b) arrangements
(c) symmetry

7. Here and Now

You should make connections with appropriate sources when developing your personal response to one of the following suggestions:

(a) Develop your own interpretation of the starting point Here and Now.
(b) You could consider designing promotional material for a contemporary exhibition or gallery event.
(c) You might explore a current issue or event.

Example of HERE & NOW prepbook:

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