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Course content The course is made up of the following eight Units. Click on one to find out more. You will find out how many pages each Unit consists of. Each page on the course is quite short. You can also download a PDF of each Unit here, which will display only the text and still images of each Unit. To open these documents you will need to have Adobe® Acrobat® Reader® installed on your computer. Click here to download Acrobat® for free.
Art and Tate galleries
introduces you to the four Tate galleries. It highlights issues
of architecture, the environment, the relationship of indoor and
outdoors, and methods of display and consumption of art. Art and Materials
explores some of the range of materials that modern and contemporary
artists use to communicate their ideas. Part of an artist's choice
of materials is a decision about how to use them in the process
of making the artwork. This Unit consists of 22 pages.
Art and Landscape
examines some of the ways we explore and experience the world around
us. It considers how we respond to and record a sense of place whether
familiar or remote and unknown, picturesque or mundane, urban or
rural. This Unit consists of 44 pages.
Art and Everyday Life
explores the ordinary objects and familiar routines of our everyday
lives, be it work or leisure, duty or pleasure. Implicit in this
are our shared value systems, and attitudes in common, which make
up meaning in our everyday lives. This Unit consists of 37
pages.
Art and Politics
explores how artworks can be read politically in terms of their
subject matter, the materials and processes of their construction
and events happening at the time the works were made. Against a
backdrop of burgeoning technological development it examines the
changing ways in which artists have positioned their practice in
relation to evolving forms of media and mass production. This Unit
consists of 48 pages.
Art and Storytelling
explores a group of artworks which ask us to think about the different
stories that influence our lives. These range from stories based
on memories and special places to artworks about religious stories
and paintings from the past. The artists use different materials
and a range of scale from very small to the size of a large wall
to describe their stories to us. This Unit consists of 42
pages.
Art and Identity
explores 'relationships'. It addresses the way in which artists
use materials, how they relate to their models, and the complex
relationship they have with themselves. While exploring identity
as a general theme, the Unit relies heavily on contrasting concepts
like celebrity and familiarity; life and death, fine art and photography,
and sound and image. This Unit consists of 25 pages.
Art and Value
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