Art & Design
Key Stage 3 Super-Curriculum Resources
Where to find the subject in the Library
Information about art is found in the 700s. Sculpture is in the 730s, graphic art and design, including crafts, is in the 740s. Painting is in the 750s, and printmaking in the 760s.
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
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=2N7bhkOyuJg
Polyboard printing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9f0yKfLBpY
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 ...
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