Art History – Teaching a Combined Class
Level 1 and Level 2 Art History
Credits and Assessment:
Level 2 – 20 credits – 4 credits each AS
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3 Internal AS – 2.4 Media and Processes (AS 91183), 2.5 Topic (AS 91184), 2.6 Personal
Response (AS 91185).
2 External AS– 2.1 Formal Elements (AS 91180), 2.2 Meaning (AS 91181).
Level 1 – 20 credits – 4 credits each AS
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1 external AS – 1.1 Formal Elements (AS 91015).
4 internal AS – 1.2 Subject (AS 91016), 1.3 Context (AS 91017), 1.4 Media and Processes (AS
91018), 1.5 Development of an Artist’s work(AS 91019).
Course Content & Assessment Plan:
Level One
Level Two
Term One –
 How to discuss an art work
 C20th Art Movements
Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism,
Constructivism, Pop Art.
 NZ Colonial Painting – art history
vocabulary – topographical and
romantic styles.
NZ Colonial Landscape artists – Hodges,
Earle, Strutt, Heaphy, Fox, Gully,
Kinder.
Term Two –
 NZ Portraiture
AS 1.2 – Subject Matter – NZ Portrait Paintings
Goldie, Lindauer, Rita Angus, Robin White,
Nigel Brown, Dick Frizzell.
 Exam – 1.1 Formal Elements
 NZ Painters and Photographers
Grahame Sydney, Sylvia Siddell, Bill Hammond,
Seraphine Pick, Kelcy Taratoa, Robyn Kahukiwa,
Laurence Aberhart, Marti Friedlander, Neil
Partington, Peter Peryer, Lisa Reihana, Natalie
Robinson.
AS 1.3 – Context: Social & Cultural Landmarks
in the NZ Landscape
Term Three –
 Images of the Pacific – Printmaking &
Sculpture
John Pule, Michel Tuffery, Stanley Palmer,
Robin White, Michael Parekowhai, Elizabeth
Term One –
 How to discuss an art work
 C19th Art Movements
Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism,
Impressionism, Post-Impressionism
 NZ Colonial Painting and Depiction of
the Maori by the European Artist
NZ Colonial Landscape artists – Heaphy, Fox,
Gully, Kinder; Portraits of the Maori - Goldie,
Lindauer.
AS 2.5 – Topic: Colonial Landscape Painting
Term Two –
 C19th French Art
 Neoclassicism and Romanticism
David, Ingres and Canova, Gericault and
Delacroix
 Exam – 2.1 Formal Elements & 2.2
Meaning
 Realism
Daumier, Courbet & Millet
AS 2.6 – Personal Response: France during the
time of Realism 1840 – 1860
 NZ Architecture
NZ Churches and Public Buildings
Term Three –
 NZ Art – Emergence of a National Style
– Modernism & Regionalism
Van der Velden, Perkins, Sutton, Rita Angus,
Doris Lusk.
Thomson, Chrs Booth, Neil Dawson, Judy
Darragh.
AS 1.4 – Media & Processes in Art
 Features of Modern NZ Style – NZ
Artist Study
Nigel Brown, Shane Cotton, Dick Frizzell, Bill
Hammond, Seraphine Pick, Kelcy Taratoa, Marti
Friedlander, Fiona Pardington, Peter Peryer,
Ans Westra.
AS 1.5 – Development of an Artist’s Work
 Exam – 1.1 Formal Elements
Term Four –
 Revision
 NZQA External Exam – 1.1
Sally Waanders
HOD Art - Rosehill College
June, 2015.
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C19th French Art – Impressionism &
Post-Impressionism
Barbizons, Manet, Monet, Cassatt, Morisot,
Degas, Renoir, Seurat, Gauguin, Cezanne,
Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh.
AS 2.4 – Media & their Effects – Impressionist
and Post-Impressionist paintings
 Exam – 2.1 Formal Elements & 2.2
Term Four –
 C19th French Art – Sculpture &
Buildings
Rodin, L’Arc de Triomphe, Eiffel Tower, Houses
of Parliament, Crystal Palace.
 Revision
 NZQA External Exams – 2.1 & 2.2