Content Area 3: Today’s World should help you to develop skills of inquiry as you experience a range of art-led experiences. This can be done by visiting galleries, museums or heritage sites, whether locally, nationally, internationally or virtually.
It can also mean engaging with artists in the community or working with them in school-based projects.
Using this Book for Practical and Visual
Studies l Study your two chosen content areas and the four areas of Content Area 3: Today’s World for your written exam.
l Use all Content Areas as inspirational sources for your practical studies.
l Use material provided online at
www.gillexplore.ie in any areas of special interest to your studies.
l Use the internet as a valuable research tool to find out more about artists and artworks. Suggestions for video links and internet sites can be found in the Further Research panel at the end of each chapter.
Classroom activity: Sit in groups at a table. Take photographs as you act out the gestures of Jesus and the apostles. Say aloud what you think each one is saying. Make sketches of the gestures.
l Respond to artists and artworks in both Visual and Practical Studies by answering questions in the Chapter Review section at the end of each chapter.
Chapter Review 1. How was Italy ruled in the 15th century?
2. Why did patrons commission works of art? The Three Art Strands
The three strands of Research, Create and Respond are fundamental to the process of studying art.
Working with a process will encourage and promote innovation as you make new art work, develop new methods and generate new ideas. It is, of course, possible to begin a piece of artwork from any one of the three strands, as they are interlinked and interdependent, but it is important to experience all three.
Fur er Research
www.youtube.com – Search for ‘Linear Perspective: Brunelleschi’s Experiment’ (4:16) to watch a short video on Brunelleschi’s exploration of linear perspective.
www.youtube.com – Search for ‘Florence’s Gates of Paradise’ (4:55) to watch a video on Ghiberti’s third set of baptistery doors.
l Activities are included throughout the book. Select any that fit with your Practical Studies or that help with learning and understanding of Visual Studies. These are presented in the form of Research, Create and Respond panels.
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Visual Studies should play a very important role, alongside and as part of your practical work. The learning outcomes within each of the three strands reflect the relationship between the practical making of a work and the knowledge, skills, values and understanding of relevant examples of Visual Studies.
Research Create Resp d NEW APPRECIATING ART
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