OCR A-Level Art and Design contextual and critical studies overview quiz quiz

Writing in much longer and far more elaborate and impressive sentences right through the whole response

Naming as many of the individual colours in the work as you possibly can

Adding the artist's date of birth and a short account of their early life

Bridging from observation to interpretation (linking each visual claim to its effect or meaning)

Content, form, process, mood, context

Size, price, date, owner, location

Line, tone, colour, shape, space

Claim, evidence, interpretation, link, summary

To fragment objects into geometric facets seen from multiple viewpoints at once

To capture the fleeting effects of light and atmosphere on a scene

To depict the world of dreams, the irrational and the unconscious mind

To draw directly on the imagery of mass media and consumer advertising

Surrealism

Pop Art

Cubism

Renaissance

Monet and Renoir

Leonardo and Michelangelo

Warhol and Lichtenstein

Pollock and Rothko

Copying reproduces an image; influence extracts a transferable principle and develops it on your own subject

There is no real difference between the two, and the terms describe the same activity

Copying is simply the faster of the two ways of responding to another artist's work

Influence just means very carefully tracing all the outlines of the original work straight onto your own page

Only their date and place of birth and a short biography

Their aims, methods and signature qualities, through specific works

How much their work currently sells for at the major international auction houses

Their favourite colour and preferred materials to work with

It is cheaper than buying a printed reproduction of the work

Galleries usually give out free high-quality printed reproductions of the works on show

Reproductions lose scale, true colour, surface and texture, and physical presence

The original is always physically closer to the viewer than a reproduction

Collecting and gathering together as many different images as you possibly can

Pinning all the images neatly up onto a wall with each of the original captions copied out beneath them

Relying on only one carefully chosen contextual source throughout the project

Integrating each source by analysing it and connecting it to a decision in your line of enquiry

Claim, evidence, interpretation, link

A simple introduction, body and conclusion only

A full description of everything you can see in the work

An exhaustive list of all the colours and the shapes present

Long and impressive-sounding technical words will always impress the examiners and markers reading the work

A term used accurately does analytical work; terms dropped in for effect add nothing and can be wrong

There is a strict word limit, so each technical term has to be made to count

Specialist vocabulary is not actually assessed at all in critical writing

A timed written examination paper that can be of almost any length at all that the individual candidate wishes

A short descriptive caption written underneath each image in the sketchbook

The written element of the Personal Investigation, at least 1000 words, connected to the practical work

An entirely optional extra essay that carries no marks towards the final grade