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Module 2: Investigation and Exploration

6 dot points, in syllabus order. Each dot point has a focused answer, with exam-style questions and worked answers where available.

What do the broad classifications of Pre-Modernism, Modernism and Post-Modernism mean, and how do they help you locate and drive your own artmaking?

Explore approaches to artmaking through the broad classifications of Pre-Modernism, Modernism and Post-Modernism, using them to inform and drive your own practice.

How to use the broad art classifications in TCE Visual Art: understanding Pre-Modernism, Modernism and Post-Modernism as approaches to artmaking, their defining attitudes to convention, and how to use them to locate artists and drive your own investigation.

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How does the context an artwork was made in shape what it means and how we should interpret it?

Interpret artworks in relation to their historical, cultural, social and personal contexts, recognising how context shapes meaning and reception.

How to interpret art in context for TCE Visual Art: using historical, cultural, social and personal frames to deepen meaning, distinguishing the maker's context from the viewer's, and avoiding anachronistic or purely formal readings.

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How do you research other artists so their work genuinely influences your own rather than just decorating your diary?

Investigate artists, movements and contexts and translate specific aspects of their practice into tested choices within your own developing work.

How to research artists in TCE Visual Art: choosing relevant practitioners, extracting specific transferable strategies, testing them in your own studies, and acknowledging influence honestly so research drives making rather than padding the diary.

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How do you turn investigation and research into a personal visual aesthetic that is recognisably your own?

Use investigation and research to support and drive the development of a personal visual aesthetic in your artmaking.

How to develop a personal visual aesthetic in TCE Visual Art: turning research and experimentation into a recognisable visual language of your own, distinguishing aesthetic from style and copying, and building consistency in subject, media, palette and treatment.

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How do you write a short, focused response that explains your inspiration and influences and links them to your own developing work?

Produce short written responses on inspiration and influences that connect your research to your own artmaking decisions.

How to write the short response on inspiration and influences in TCE Visual Art: structuring a focused written task, analysing rather than describing an influence, and explicitly linking researched artists to your own artmaking decisions.

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How does deliberate experimentation with materials and techniques drive an artwork forward rather than just filling diary pages?

Plan, conduct and evaluate purposeful media experiments so that each trial informs a decision about your developing artworks.

How to experiment purposefully in TCE Visual Art: framing each media trial with a question, evaluating outcomes against your concept, and using results to make decisions rather than producing random unconnected samples.

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