12 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. In order to understand any period in time, Art has always been a source of information and interpretation.
The objective of the art history course is to enable students to:
- Use and understand art historical terminology.
- 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.
This course will develop your literacy, critical thinking and analytical skills both visually and written, as well being able to communicate your own views and opinions. These transferable skills will be applied while examining artworks from the history of Western Art. We hold an annual trip to the University of Auckland and the Auckland Art Gallery.
This course covers art from 19th century France focusing on the historical periods of: Neo-classicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism and Post-impressionism. We explore historical events such as the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution and the Modernisation of France through a social, political and economic lens in the medium of painting, sculpture and architecture.
You are not expected to be competent in art making, this is a visual analysis subject that is literacy based. You will learn to analyse and interpret art and communicated this understanding in written form. Students taking visual art subjects as well as considering Scholarship Art are recommended to take this course.
Skills learnt in Art History can lead to work in a wide range of roles including architects, lawyers, writers, historians, visual communications, marketing coordinators, administrators, customers service advisers, website content developers, sales advisers, recruitment consultants, educators and project coordinators.
2025 is also the year we will be taking Art History students to Europe to see and experience artworks studied in real life.
Term 1
Introduction to Art History
Become familiar with Art History terminology
Context: French Revolution and Enlightenment
Style: Neoclassicism
Artists: Vigee le Brun, David, Ingres and Canova
Internal: 2.5 communicate understanding of an Art History topic
Term 2
Context: French Revolutions; Socialism
Style: Romanticism; Realism, Impressionism
Artists: Gericault, Delacroix, Daumier, Millet, Courbet, Manet, Monet, Degas
Term 3
Internal: 2.4 Examine how media are used to create effects
Context: Industrial Revolution and the modernisation of Paris
Styles: Impressionism, Neo-Impressionism
Artists: Cassatt, Morisot, Van Gogh, Seurat, Gauguin, Cezanne
Exam preparation.
Term 4
Exam preparation
Course Overview
Term 2
Prerequisites
Must have co requisite literacy and
Either 15 credits from 11HI1 MCEA course which must include at least an achieved in NCEA Hist 1.1 standard
Or 15 credits from 11EN1 or 11ENE MCEA course which must include at least an achieved in NCEA Eng 1.1 standard
Or 15 credits from 11GE1 MCEA which must include at least an achieved in NCEA Geo 1.1 standard
OR HoD approval
Contributions and Equipment/Stationery
*12AH1* - Supplementary costs: Approx $35
Pathway
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.
External
NZQA Info
Art History 2.2 - Examine the meanings conveyed by art works
NZQA Info
Art History 2.3 - Examine the influence of context(s) on art works
NZQA Info
Art History 2.4 - Examine how media are used to create effects in art works
NZQA Info
Art History 2.5 - Communicate understanding of an art history topic
Assessments:
Term: 2, Week: 3
Pathway Tags
Animator/Digital Artist, Historian, Artist, Graphic Designer, Curator, Game Developer, Photographer, Valuer,