PREPARE YOURSELF!
So... you have studied your artists and think you have a solid understanding of their artmaking and artworks. GREAT!
What now?
Well, the tricky part is being about to RELATE this to a given question.
Every question has a particular purpose or focus. You need to be able to identify what this is AND then figure out how to answer it.
How can you develop these skills?
What I would suggest....
1. Complete questions break downs of every question listed below.
Why?
Glad you asked. This will help you develop your ability to RELATE your knowledge of an artist and their artworks to various types of questions. This means you are getting used to thinking about your artist from MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES.
2. Complete a practice response for at least one of the questions below.
Why?
Again, glad you asked. This will help you to identify the key points and evidence you will use to answer the question. Being a good writer takes practice, so practice!
What now?
Well, the tricky part is being about to RELATE this to a given question.
Every question has a particular purpose or focus. You need to be able to identify what this is AND then figure out how to answer it.
How can you develop these skills?
What I would suggest....
1. Complete questions break downs of every question listed below.
Why?
Glad you asked. This will help you develop your ability to RELATE your knowledge of an artist and their artworks to various types of questions. This means you are getting used to thinking about your artist from MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES.
2. Complete a practice response for at least one of the questions below.
Why?
Again, glad you asked. This will help you to identify the key points and evidence you will use to answer the question. Being a good writer takes practice, so practice!
SAMPLE QUESTIONS
PRACTICE
1. As part of their practice, artists navigate emotional states and rational choices.
Discuss this statement with reference to a range of examples.
2. Discuss how cultural experience informs the practice of artists, art critics, art historians and/or curators.
Discuss this statement with reference to a range of examples.
2. Discuss how cultural experience informs the practice of artists, art critics, art historians and/or curators.
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
3. Artists deliberately set out to provoke audience reactions.
Argue a case both for and against this statement.
4. Evaluate the importance of artists’ intentions in the production and meaning of artworks.
Argue a case both for and against this statement.
4. Evaluate the importance of artists’ intentions in the production and meaning of artworks.
FRAMES
5. One must look to the past to create the future.
Discuss this statement with reference to artists and their work.
6. "I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions- tragedy, ecstasy, doom and so on"- Mark Rothko
Argue a case for or against this subjective point of view.
Discuss this statement with reference to artists and their work.
6. "I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions- tragedy, ecstasy, doom and so on"- Mark Rothko
Argue a case for or against this subjective point of view.
Created by N. Usher for Gilroy Catholic College, 2014.