Art & Design
Key Stage 3 Super-Curriculum Resources

Things to read ...

Handbooks about General Art Theory

● Isms….Understanding Modern Art

● Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That by Susie Hodge

● Thinking About Art: A Thematic Guide to Art History

Books which will help you structure text when studying Art

● Ways of Looking: How to Experience Contemporary Art - Ossian Ward

● How to Write About Contemporary Art - Gilda Williams

Wider Reading

• The Story of Art – Gombrich

• Studies in Iconology – Panofsky

• Durer to Veronese – Dunkerton et al.

• Ways of Seeing – John Berger

• The Embarrassment of Riches: An interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age – S. Schama

• On Photography – Susan Sontag

• The Italian Painters of the Renaissance – B Berenson

• The Nude and Landscape into Art – Kenneth Clark

• Anatomy – Francesco Clemente

• Andy Goldsworth: Sculpture 1976–1990, Friedman

• Richard Long: Walking The Line, Moorhouse

• Picture This Century, Woolf

• Wall And Piece Century, Bansky

• Art In Context, Hobbs

• Rembrandt’s Eyes, Schama

• Secret Knowledge, Hockney

• Eye Witness Art: Perspective, Cole

• Understanding Installation Art: From Duchamp To Holzer, Rosenthal

Things to watch ...

• Impressionism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jhHX_tpy70

• Impressionism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTOO-ukvs4g

• Impressionism: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zwt8g7h

• Natural Forms - watercolour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlzpDzgQvMI

• Natural Forms - watercolour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YIpRMwJJfs

• Tone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaxL4gYwUrU

• Tone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoxQNtwPOJ0

• Fauvism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcjJEOapNKY

• Fauvism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCk-urHesY

• Fauvism: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/teaching-wiki/fauvism

• Pencil portrait: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3y7fMA23co

• Pencil portrait: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGcOEkl1coU

• Clay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONYkkGbtAoA

• Clay:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N7bhkOyuJg

• Polyboard printing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9f0yKfLBpY

• Jim Dine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmsSbpsB5Vs

• Jim Dine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OezMavBqWXc

• Design blog: https://www.itsnicethat.com

• Design blog: https://www.designboom.com

• Practice your drawing skills 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OezMavBqWXc

• Practice your drawing skills 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNjlCnWUqzM

• Practice your drawing skills 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg73ni-XZzg

• Practice your drawing skills 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9cMOdBR9Vg

• Practice your drawing skills 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k2u_tszp7s

• Biro drawing skills: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k2u_tszp7s

• Biro drawing skills: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYu-4Ciutkg

• Biro drawing skills: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po-DWpJtlBY

• Biro drawing skills: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVa67gKe-rg&t

• How to draw a realistic face in biro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSxOtDOp_XM

Things to listen to ...

Websites ...

• MoMA - Art and Artists: https://www.moma.org/

• Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/

Places to visit ...

• Kew Gardens

• Tate Modern

• Tate Britain

• National Gallery

• National Portrait Gallery

• Royal Academy of Arts

• V&A

• White Cube

• Whitechapel Gallery

• Wallis Collection

• Saatchi Gallery

• The Hayward Gallery

• Barbican

• Serpentine Gallery

I'm good at art, what job can I get?

• Student Art Guide - Art Careers: https://www.studentartguide.com/articles/art-careers-list 

• Screen Skills: https://www.screenskills.com/ 

• Arts Jobs: https://www.artsjobs.org.uk/ 

Further studies

• BBC Bitesize - Elements of Art: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z9kmhyc 

• BBC Bitesize - Principles of Art and Design: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zyvkjxs 

Activities