OCR GCSE Art and Design contextual and critical studies overview quiz quiz

AO4 (presenting a personal response that realises intentions for the final outcome)

The 10-hour timed practical exam that every single candidate must sit at the very end of the course

AO1 (develop ideas through investigations, demonstrating critical understanding of sources)

Mounting and presenting finished work neatly in a sketchbook for the final assessment

Size, price, current market value and the name of the private owner

Line, tone, colour and shape, with no attention paid to meaning

Title, date, medium and the gallery where the work is displayed

Formal qualities, content, process and context

Describing restates what is visible; analysing explains how the choices function and why

There is no real difference; the two words mean exactly the same thing in art writing

Analysing is simply a longer version of describing with more sentences added on the end

Describing requires more specialist vocabulary, while analysing needs almost none at all

A single famous painting that becomes well known enough to define a whole period of art

A group of artists sharing aims, ideas and a visual approach in a period, often reacting against predecessors

A particular type of brushstroke or repeated mark that one single artist uses again and again throughout their whole career

A gallery or museum building that houses and displays a large collection of important art

Copy a famous Surrealist painting exactly, line for line, so that the finished page looks polished and impressive to the examiner

Ignore it completely and carry on with your own ideas as if the movement never existed

Take its idea or method (dreams, unexpected juxtaposition) and apply it to your own subject

Only write a long history of the movement without making any work of your own from it

Analysing in detail how the artist uses the formal elements

Responding to the artist's chosen method on your own subject

Clearly connecting the artist to your own line of enquiry

Pasting a copied biography with no reading of the work

A relevant artist gives ideas and methods you can apply to your enquiry; a famous unconnected one feeds nothing

Famous artists are completely off-limits in coursework, so you must always choose a lesser known, unfamiliar one instead

Relevant artists are simply easier to copy than famous ones, which is why they score better

Choosing a famous artist actually lowers your mark because the examiner has seen them before

Only famous paintings that hang in major national galleries and are reproduced widely in textbooks and on countless postcards

Anything that gives an idea a context: artists, movements, cultures, places, objects, the natural world, design

Only your own photographs taken specifically for the project, never any outside material

Only written texts such as books, articles and essays about the history of fine art

There is no difference; both terms describe the same way of looking at a source

Primary engagement always happens online through reproductions, while secondary engagement always happens in a real gallery space

Primary is encountering it directly (gallery, place, object); secondary is through reproductions (books, online)

Secondary engagement is always better because reproductions are clearer than the real thing

More sources will always score higher marks, so you should pin up as many reproductions as you possibly can find

Accumulating sources is faster, and speed is what the assessment objectives reward most

Judgement is only needed for the final piece, not when you are gathering source material

AO1 rewards understanding, so a chosen, varied, analysed set beats a pile of pinned reproductions

Analytical sentences (how and why) with accurate vocabulary and judgements supported by evidence

Using as many long, complicated and impressive sounding words as you possibly can, whether or not they actually fit the artwork

Writing more pages than anyone else so the examiner can see how much effort you put in

Avoiding all specialist vocabulary so the writing stays simple and easy for anyone to read

By stating it loudly and confidently so the reader simply accepts it

With specific evidence from the work that creates the effect

By pointing to how famous and well respected the artist already is

It does not need any support, since a personal opinion is enough on its own