IGCSE Art & Design - Fine Art

The iGCSE in Art and Design, Fine Art aims to support student development of a unique creative response through engagement with sustained and independent enquiry on this 100% online course. Students can choose to focus on drawing, lens/light-based media, mixed-media, printing, painting, or sculpture to explore an idea, convey an experience, or respond to a theme. Fine Art is often defined as a counterbalance to craft or work produced in the creative industries. It creates opportunities to communicate aesthetic, intellectual or purely conceptual ideas and meaning.

Students will demonstrate an understanding and application of the formal elements and principles of art and design in their artmaking which can be the outcome of personal experience alongside response to observation in new and unique ways. This course supports the development of students’ verbal, written and visual communication skills, encouraging a personal response by stimulating imagination, sensitivity, and conceptual thinking. Students will have the opportunity to demonstrate critical thinking and communicate for different purposes, expressing their opinions, persuading others, discussing ideas, and debating real-world issues. Students will gain contextual knowledge by understanding historical and contemporary art, craft, and design practice from different cultures, to demonstrate an understanding of continuity and change in fine art.

Students will:

1. Undertake visual research, using primary and secondary sources, and record observations, experiences, and ideas
2. Develop and realise ideas, exploring and reviewing possible solutions and modifying work
3. Use a range of materials, equipment, processes, and techniques in 2D and/or 3D, using ICT and technology
4. Know and understand a range of work, from contemporary practice, past practice, and different cultures, to demonstrate an understanding of continuity and change in art, craft, and design.

Students will explore:

• The use of formal elements and visual communication through a variety of approaches
• The use of observational skills to record from sources and communicate ideas
• Characteristics of media and materials such as wet and dry, malleable, resistant, and digital
• Properties of colour and light such as hue, tint, saturation, and tone
• The effects and creative potential of combining and manipulating different two-dimensional and three-dimensional materials and media
• The use of digital and/or non-digital applications.