AQA GCSE Art and Design: critical and contextual studies quiz quiz

Describing says what is there; analysing explains how and why it works

They are the same thing, since both simply record what the artwork looks like to a viewer

Describing relies on colour while analysing only ever uses black and white

Analysing just means listing the materials the artist used to make it

Paint, pencil, clay, ink, charcoal, watercolour and acrylic media

Line, tone, colour, shape, form, texture, pattern, composition

Foreground, middle ground, background and the frame around the work

Happy, sad, calm and tense, the moods an artwork makes you feel

A single famous painting that is widely admired and displayed in a major gallery

The act of physically moving an artwork between galleries for an exhibition

A shared style and set of ideas held by a group of artists at a particular time

A type of paintbrush stroke used to suggest motion across the canvas

The price the artwork sold for at auction or in a commercial gallery

The exact dimensions and size of the canvas the artist worked on

The frame and the wall label placed around the work when it is shown

The historical, social and cultural setting the work came from

No, you use context to explain choices and feed your own work

Yes, exact dates are formally tested in a separate written history exam

Yes, you must learn every artist's birthday and the year each work was made

No, because the context behind a work is completely irrelevant to making art

It simply makes your annotation longer and fills the page

It proves you understand exactly what you are seeing

It is required only so that you can pick up extra spelling marks

It conveniently hides weak drawing behind clever wording

Cramming a long word list the night before an assessment is due

Avoiding any new words so you only ever use terms you already feel safe with

Collecting terms as you meet them, defining each, and using them

Only reading the gallery wall text and never writing the words down

Galleries are quieter and give you a lot more time to sit and think calmly

Screens always show the work of the wrong artist or mislabel the piece

There is no real difference between the two ways of viewing an artwork

You experience the real scale, texture, brushwork and colour first-hand

Is it reliable, is it relevant to my theme, what do I take from it

Is it expensive to buy, is it very old, and is the maker famous

Is it colourful, is it large in size, and is it stored in digital form

Who made it, when was it made, and how much did it eventually cost

Copy the artwork exactly as it appears, line for line and colour for colour

State what you take from the artist for your own work

Move on to the next artist without making any comment at all

Print the image in full colour and stick it neatly into your sketchbook