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O-Level Art Syllabus 2009

Introduction
The syllabus is designed to encourage the candidate to use the intuitive and reasoning faculties and develop
creativity. This is expected to be the foundation for further studies. It is concerned with developing skills
leading to the expressive process. This is the process through which the individual develops his or her
ideas from the initial stimulus through to the final realisation of the created form. Enhancing the role to art
through discovering and exploring cross-curricular links is also an important aspect of this syllabus.

Aims
The syllabus aims at stimulating and developing:

1. intuition, imaginative and reasoning abilities
2. critical and analytical faculties
3. an experimental, reflective, and innovative approach through research and inventive use of materials and techniques
4. the ability to clarify priorities, knowing what is to be expressed and making effective responses
5. an understanding of the nature of visual thinking and of the appropriate skills for creative thought and action
6. perception, understanding, and expression of concepts and feeling in visual and tactile form
7. response to sensation/experience through concept formation in terms of ideas, thinking, feeling and remembering
8. acquisition of a correct terminology relevant to art.
9. appreciation and knowledge of the work of artists.

Assessment Objectives
The examination will test the candidate’s:

1. ability to respond to a stimulus
2. ability to record experience, observation, and imagination
3. ability to investigate visual and other sources of information from both primary and secondary sources.
4. ability to explore a range of media for working in two and /or three dimensions
5. ability to review, modify and refine work as it progresses
6. ability to realise ideas and intentions creatively in two and /or three dimensions.

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