13 Art History 1
Course Description
Teacher in Charge: Jaleisa Adams.
Studying art history is a valuable means of understanding art and culture. Art History is concerned with the analysis and interpretation of art works within their cultural and historical contexts.
This course will develop your literacy, critical thinking and analytical skills. You will become articulate and communicate views and opinions based on visual evidence. These transferable skills will be applied while examining artworks from the history of Western and contemporary New Zealand Art.
The objective of the art history course is to enable students to:
- Use and understand terminology appropriate to the subject.
- Recognise technical and stylistic conventions and the formal and expressive qualities of an artwork.
- Distinguish between individual, regional and period styles.
- Understand the ways in which symbols and signs are used to create meaning in art.
- Understand the function of art within its social context and of the relationships between art, artists and society.
- Understand the ways in which values are attached to art.
Topics: 15th Century Early Renaissance & 20th Century Modernism to Post Modernism
We’ll travel back in time to the world of the 15th century after the devastating effects of the Plague and study the emergence of Renaissance Humanism. We’ll leap forward 500 years to explore the second half of the 20th century where artists move beyond traditional painting to comment on the everyday, popular culture, and consumerism. We’ll examine major artistic styles of Naturalism and Classicism as well as Modernism, Abstraction, Feminism, Neo-Dada and Pop Art.
Students will go on a trip for this course to experience art in person and apply skills learned.
Students taking visual art subjects as well as considering Scholarship Art and/or Art History are recommended to take this course.
Skills learnt in Art History can lead to work in a wide range of roles including architectects, lawyers, marketing coordinators, administrators, customers service advisers, website content developers, sales advisers, recruitment consultants, educators, project coordinators, curatorial work, art gallery roles, conservation, research and more.
Term 1
Introduction to Art History
Learn to use art historical terminology
Early Renaissance art and Humanism
Internal: 3.7 Examine the relationship between a theory and artworks.
Term 2
Modern American Art
Styles: American Realism, Abstract Expressionism, Neo Dada & Pop Art
Artists: Hopper; Pollock; Rothko; Rauschenberg; Warhol; Lichtenstein; Oldenburg,
Internal: 3.4 Examine the impact of media and processes on art.
Term 3
Modern New Zealand Art & Feminist Art
Artists: McCahon, Hotere, Frizzell, Fahey; Chicago; Kruger
Internal: 3.6 Examine the values placed on art.
Term 4
Exam preparation
Prerequisites
At least 12 credits in Level 2 Art History (12AH1)
OR at least 14 credits in Level 2 History (12HI1)*
OR at least 14 credits in Level 2 English (12EN1/12ENE)*
OR at least 14 credits in Level 2 Classical Studies (12CS1)*
*8 of these credits must be at Merit +
Must include reading and writing credits with at least 4 credits from an external standard
OR HoD approval.
Contributions and Equipment/Stationery
*13AH1* - Supplementary costs: Approx $30
Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
This course is eligible for subject endorsement.
This course is approved for University Entrance.
External
NZQA Info
Art History 3.2 - Examine how meanings are communicated through art works
NZQA Info
Art History 3.3 - Examine the relationship(s) between art and context
NZQA Info
Art History 3.4 - Examine the impact of media and processes on art works
Assessments:
Term: 3, Week: 4
NZQA Info
Art History 3.6 - Examine the different values placed on art works
Assessments:
Term: 2, Week: 3
NZQA Info
Art History 3.7 - Examine the relationship(s) between a theory and art works
Assessments:
Term: 2, Week: 10
NZQA Info
SCHL - Art History
Approved subject for University Entrance
Number of credits that can be used for overall endorsement: 20
Only students engaged in learning and achievement derived from Te Marautanga o Aotearoa are eligible to be awarded these subjects as part of the requirement for 14 credits in each of three subjects.
Pathway Tags
Animator/Digital Artist, Historian, Artist, Graphic Designer, Curator, Game Developer, Photographer, Valuer,