2014 Grade 8 June Exam Break-down:

http://artenormal.blogspot.com/2011_04_01_archive.html

Dear Grade 8s your exam is 1 hour and it is out of 50 marks.  We will also add a mark for your classwork  to your practical mark. your classwork mark is based on completing your printing and homework, as well as your logo.

Theory Exam Sections:
Section 1: A series of questions on the Ndebele people's home decoration. [10]
Section 2: A series of questions on the Ndebele Clothing [10]
Section 3: A series of questions on identifying the elements and principles of art [10]

Link to revision posts on theory powerpoints

Link to First Ndebele Worksheet Memo

Link to Memo for June Revision Worksheet

Practical exam: - Please bring pencils and colours
Section 4: Drawing question based on creating patterns using everyday objects and geometric shapes [20].

link to last's years practical question

here are some practise revision questions:  Link to revision questions

Ndebele Extension Question & Competition: Grade 8

Extension Question:
Images from:
http://local-moda.blogspot.com/2013/10/traditional-dress-and-adornments-of.html

Ndebele print sunglasses

 Link to more visual clues for the extension question.

How does Ndebele art inform popular culture? Describe some examples and designer's work to support your answer. [5]
Can you design your own fashion object? [10]

"Fashion - any mode of dressing or adornment that is popular during a particular time in a particular place among a particular group of people" (Concise Encyclopedia )

2014 Grade 8 Ndebele Art Revision Exercise

Image 1: http://kwekudee-tripdownmemorylane.blogspot.com/2013/12/ndebele-manala-ndebele-and-ndzundza.html




Image 2:


Image 3: 

http://local-moda.blogspot.com/2013/10/traditional-dress-and-adornments-of.html

Image 4 

http://hood-lum.com/20-March-2011-Ndebele


http://artenormal.blogspot.com/2011_04_01_archive.html

Image 1 & 3: Clothing Revision questions: [6]
1. What type of apron is the woman in image 1 wearing? [1]

2. How is it different to the apron that the woman in Image 3 is wearing? [2]

3. How is the woman's clothing in Image 3 symbolic? Is this woman married? How do you know? [3]

Image 1, 2,3 &4 &5: Application of Elements and Principles of Art Revision [8]

4. What form has the woman decorated  in Image 1? [1]

5. Draw a geometric pattern that you can identify in image 1 [2]

6. How has the artist used line in image 2? You can draw an examples to support your answer. [2]

7. Identify a negative shape in this image 3. Circle it in a bright colour. [1]

8. Draw an organic shape that you can identify in image 5. [2]

Image 3 & 4: Ndebele Home Design Revision [6]

9. Name the entrance way in image 3 and describe its defining feature. [2]

10. Name the cultural object that inspired the artist in image 4. Draw an example from the image to support your answer. [2]

11. Ndebele artists are often inspired by everyday life. Write down your version of story being told by the images image 5.  [2]

Link to extension question if you finish early

Grade 8 Exam revision Worksheets

Link to Digital Worksheet on Ndebele homes and clothing

http://nkosiafrica.com/gallery.html

Link to Pattern brief and Past exam question examples

Grade 8 June Exam Revision Powerpoint Links

Link to Google Drive Powerpoint on Ndebele Fashion and clothing

Link to Google Drive Powerpoint on Ndebele Wall art

Link to Powerpoint on identifying Elements and Principles of Art in Ndebele Art 

Link to Notes on Ndebele Art and Elements and Principles of Art

June 2014 Practical Exam Self-Evaluation 12VA

LINK  to Grade 12VA 6 hour Evaluation form

Grade 12 Exam Revision

See the links below for information on the artists we have studied:

(NB NO COPYING AND PASTING from the Powerpoints!

 Your work will be penalized if it is not in your own words!!)

Please Note I have put all the Artists we have studied in each theme up. However you only have to learn 3 artists Max for each theme!!

Your exam is 3 hours and it is out of 100 marks.

LINK to Mrs Moore's post on your exam layout

Theme 2  [30 marks= 20 marks on Seen works + 10 Marks Unseen]

South African Artists influenced by African and/or indigenous art forms - NB choose 3 artists to study!!

• Andries Botha- Sleeping - LINK
• Ka Mkame- Ancestral Spirits- LINK  or    Makhanya- Portrait of Isis -LINK 

• Crafford Mapungubwe Visitors centre &/or Peter Rich's Mapungubwe Intrepretive Centre  
• Link to Comments on Mapungubwe essays

• Link to Mrs Moore's post on Mapungubwe
• link to Mapungubwe presentation

• Deborah Bell - Journey Pots- Link to infographic on Deborah Bell

Theme  3:    [25 marks= 15 marks seen +10 marks unseen]
Socio-political art - including Resistance art of the 1970s and 1980s in South Africa NB choose 3 artists to study!!

• Willie Bester- The Chair- Link

• Brett Murray- The Spear - Link

• Johannes Phokela- Land of Cockaigne, 2000 -Link

• Brett Murray-It's a black thing/ It's a white thing- LINK

Theme 5:   [25 marks on Unseens and comprehension activities]

Multimedia and new media - alternative contemporary and popular art forms in South Africa

• LINK to introduction on New Media

Theme 6:  [20 marks= 10 marks seen +10 Marks unseen]
Post-democratic identity  in South Africa (including issues of language, ethnicity, globalisation, urbanisation in the new South Africa)

• Pascal Chandler- Wounded Tread of Gentle Souls - LINK & Link to KZNSA Gallery Educational Blog