Art O'level

The study area SEC Art is informed by the National Curriculum Framework (NCF). GSCE Art and Design is informed by Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF).

Art is a visual language, and like verbal languages it serves to express and communicate our thoughts and feelings. Art history reflects human evolution, and it is mankind`s common cultural heritage.

Art is relevant to the students for personal enrichment. Art education besides enhancing one`s career prospects also offers a means of personal enrichment and social well-being. On a personal level, art education furnishes the student with perceptual and cognitive qualities that bring about: a. Objective observation skills through the training of the right side of the brain; b. Problem solving through informed, creative and lateral thinking skills; c. A response to Man`s innate urge for beauty, creativity and expression. On a broader social level the aesthetically educated person develops: a. Respect and love for the creation; b. Love for diversity; c. Recognition for diverse individual personal expression; d. A means of self-expression through images and forms. Art also offers a means of communication through a visual language that is universal, non-verbal, that can connect people time wise (historically with our ancestors and to our progeny/descendants in the future) and space wise across the planet. 

Furthermore, it is also fruitful for those candidates who seek to take up art as a profession. After obtaining their SEC level qualification can further their artistic studies at Advanced Level. Art combined with other subjects can also lead one to various other career choices.

At the end of the programme, the student will be able to: 

• analyse and discuss works of art from the past and the present, from local and different cultures and relate them to their historical, political, religious and social contexts in which they were created
• analyse and discuss the elements of art and principles of design, inherent in works of art and design and apply them to express one’s personal views in a creative visual language. (i.e. line, colour, shape etc./balance, contrast, rhythm)
• use a number of media, select the appropriate support and manipulate the relative tools in a creative visual language to create images and forms
• comprehend the roles of knowledgeable craftsmanship and creativity, in the production of craft, design and fine art works, and find the right balance between these two requisites in one’s artwork
• employ the elements and principles of visual language to analyse and interpret personal visual creative work in two or three-dimension, natural or man-made objects which one observes, remembers or imagines
• sustain an idea or theme through research, experimentation and development, and an interest in one’s work until it reaches its final creative stage
• make use of lateral thinking, take risks and tread new ground to investigate various possibilities for problem solving
• respond in a personal way to a theme or situation and express in a visual language one’s thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and emotions