ART HISTORY GUIDELINES FOR THE ASSESSMENT
OF NCEA LEVEL 2 EXTERNAL STANDARDS FOR 2016

The purpose of these guidelines is to assist teachers using the NCEA Art History Level 2 external standards. These guidelines should be read in conjunction with the assessment specifications for these standards, which can be found at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/qualifications-standards/qualifications/ncea/subjects/art-history/levels/.

Overview

The titles of the three NCEA Art History Level 2 external standards are these:

·  AS91180: Examine the effects of formal elements of art works (2.1)

·  AS91181: Examine the meanings conveyed by art works (2.2)

·  AS91182: Examine the influence of context(s) on art works (2.3).

These guidelines provide information about the Level 2 areas of study relating to the Level 2 external standards. They should be read in conjunction with the Art History Teaching and Learning Guidelines, the level 2 achievement standards, the 2016 Assessment Specifications, and the 2016 Assessment Report.

Rationale for the areas of study for the Level 2 external standards

The areas of study for the external standards at Level 2 are based on the overarching intent of The New Zealand Curriculum and connections between the Art History standards at Levels 1 and 3. The intent of the curriculum is reflected in the explanatory notes in each external standard.

Level 2 areas of study

The three areas of study reflect the breadth of the Level 2 external standards, and the examination requires candidates to respond to ONE area of study for each standard. Therefore, a year’s teaching programme may focus on one area of study. The areas of study can be found in the assessment specifications.

The three areas of study are these:

·  Aspects of Gothic Art (1120–1420)

·  Towards Modernism (1780–1900)

·  Aotearoa and the Pacific (1800–1950).

Aspects of Gothic Art (1120–1420)

Suggested areas of study:

·  architecture: St Denis, Chartres Cathedral, Sainte Chapelle (France), Wells Cathedral (Britain), Duomo (Siena), Carnarvon Castle, Bodiam Castle (Britain), Palazzo Pubblico (Siena), The Abbey of Cluny (France), Santa Maria Novella (Florence)

·  visual art: Chartres windows, Les Très Riches Heures (Limbourg brothers), Luttrell Psalter, Duccio, Martini, Lorenzetti Brothers, Giotto

·  sculpture: Chartres Cathedral, Nicola and Giovanni Pisano (Sienese works).

Suggested Resources:

·  Robert Bartlett, The Medieval World Complete, (Thames and Hudson, 2010)

·  Nicola Coldstream, Medieval Architecture, Oxford History of Art series, (Oxford University Press, 2002)

·  Jan Gympel, The Story of Architecture from Antiquity to the Present, (Konemann, 1996)

·  John Paoletti, Gary Radke, Art in Renaissance Italy, (Laurence King Publishing, London, 2005)

·  Matthias Weniger, Robert Suckale, Manfred Wundram, Gothique, (Taschen, 2006)

·  Rolf Toman (ed): Gothic, (Tandem, 2010)

·  (website) http://www.medieval-life-and-times.info/medieval-life/life-of-medieval-monks.htm.

Towards Modernism (1780–1900)

Suggested areas of study:

·  artists: David, Canova, Cortot, Ingres, Gericault, Delacroix, Courbet, Daumier, Millet, Corot, Barbizon, Manet, Monet, Renoir, Cassatt, Morisot, Degas, Seurat, Gauguin, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rodin

·  buildings and structures: L’Arc de Triomphe; Pantheon (Sainte-Genevieve); the Eiffel Tower; Guimard, Metro Entrances (Paris); Hotel Tassel (Brussels); Houses of Parliament (Westminster); Midland Hotel and St Pancras Station; the Crystal Palace (London).

Suggested Resources:

·  Stephen Eisenman, Nineteenth Century Art – A critical history, (Thames and Hudson, 2011)

·  Michelle Facos, An Introduction to Nineteenth Century Art, (Routledge, 2011)

·  Jan Gympel, The Story of Architecture from Antiquity to the Present, (Konemann, 1996)

·  David Watkins, A History of Western Architecture, (Laurence King Publishing, 2005).

Aotearoa and the Pacific (1800–1950).

Suggested areas of study

·  Augustus Earle, Charles Heaphy, William Fox, John Gully, John Hoyte, John Kinder, Petrus van der Velden, C.F. Goldie, Gottfried Lindauer, Christopher Perkins, Rita Angus, William Sutton, Doris Lusk.

Suggested resources:

·  Deidre Brown, Māori Arts of the Gods, (Reed Publishing, Auckland, 2005)

·  Deidre Brown, Māori Architecture, (Penguin Group NZ, 2009)

·  Michael Dunn, New Zealand Painting: A Concise History, (AUP, Auckland, 2003)

·  Sean Mallon, Samoan Art and Artists O Measina a Samoa, (Craig Potton Publishing, 2002)

·  Roger Neich, Mick Pendergrast, Krysztof Pfeiffer, Auckland Institute and Museum Pacific Tapa, (David Bateman, 1997)

·  Peter Shaw, A History of New Zealand Architecture, (Hodder Moa Beckett, 2003).