QCE Visual Art Units 3&4 Notes

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1. Turning a direct stimulus or first-hand experience into a workable personal inquiry question3 · Unit 3 AOS1 — Developing

   Framing the inquiry question

2. What each kind of art knowledge does, and how to tell them apart in an artwork3 · Unit 3 AOS1 — Developing

   Constructed and imaginative knowledge

3. Tracing a contemporary artist back through their historical influences3 · Unit 3 AOS2 — Researching

   Reverse chronology case studies

4. Reading two artworks side by side through a selected context to surface layers of meaning3 · Unit 3 AOS2 — Researching

   Comparing past and present artworks

5. Collecting observational evidence and weighing it against other people's interpretations3 · Unit 3 AOS2 — Researching

   Primary and secondary sources

6. Judging which artists, sources and disciplines actually deserve a place in your inquiry3 · Unit 3 AOS3 — Reflecting

   Evaluating influences

7. Using documented process as the evidence that makes a viewpoint defensible3 · Unit 3 AOS3 — Reflecting

   Justifying a viewpoint from process

8. Extended paragraph structure for analysing and interpreting the work of others3 · Unit 3 AOS4 — Resolving

   Analytical writing about artworks

9. Writing for a gallery audience so viewers can construct their own meaning3 · Unit 3 AOS4 — Resolving

   The artist's statement

10. Annotation, audience engagement, curatorial decisions, mastery, personal aesthetic and how to use them3 · Unit 3 AOS5 — Key terminology

    Unit 3 terminology bank

11. Syllabus definitions that examiners expect you to use precisely3 · Unit 3 AOS5 — Key terminology

    Stimulus, visual inquiry and empirical data

12. The syllabus list of alternate strategies, from parody to changed scale to AI prompts4 · Unit 4 AOS1 — Developing

    Divergent approaches inventory

13. Altering one variable in materials, technique or technology to change how audiences read the work4 · Unit 4 AOS1 — Developing

    The single calculated change

14. Collaboration, participation and inviting the audience in as joint constructors of meaning4 · Unit 4 AOS1 — Developing

    Relinquishing artist control

15. Reading 21st century ideas and issues into past and present artworks4 · Unit 4 AOS2 — Researching

    The contemporary context as the lead lens

16. Borrowing, quoting and remaking, including remaking your own images4 · Unit 4 AOS2 — Researching

    Appropriation and reconceptualisation

17. How contemporary artists set up and then break what a viewer assumes4 · Unit 4 AOS3 — Reflecting

    Exploiting audience expectation

18. Testing initial artworks against stated intention before resolving4 · Unit 4 AOS3 — Reflecting

    Evaluating your own body of work

19. Building a sustained comparative analytical essay in 120 minutes4 · Unit 4 AOS4 — Resolving

    Essay structure under exam conditions

20. The two Unit 4 key terms and the marks they protect in the written response4 · Unit 4 AOS5 — Key terminology

    Contemporary context and 'evolve'