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GONZAGA AT SIXTY: A WORK IN PROGRESS
All images across these two pages are from the
Junior Cert Projects
‘Buildings’, ‘Nightmare’ or ‘My favourite place’ is made available at the beginning of third year,
eight months before the date of submission for assessment. The theme serves as a moivaional
device, and the student having established a staring point most suitable to him, develops work in
two and three dimensions that relates to the theme. To avoid overemphasis on literal translaion
or inhibited visual descripion allowance is made for the broader interpretaion of the theme and
for diferent perceptual types. Moreover, students’ preparatory work, involving ideas, research
and exploraion, is considered as important as the inished pieces and is marked accordingly.
‘Support Studies’, a term replacing ‘History of Art’ are submited as a notebook-sketchbook of
study and research arising from an appropriate aspect of the theme. A good project shines with
personal engagement, commitment and uniqueness. It is a joy to behold.
If art has to be examined, then the Junior Cert syllabus is the most suitable meeing
ground for art as process and art as product. It enshrines a fundamental understanding of the
GONZAGA AT SIXTY: A WORK IN PROGRESS
All images across these two pages are from the
Junior Cert Projects
‘Buildings’, ‘Nightmare’ or ‘My favourite place’ is made available at the beginning of third year,
eight months before the date of submission for assessment. The theme serves as a moivaional
device, and the student having established a staring point most suitable to him, develops work in
two and three dimensions that relates to the theme. To avoid overemphasis on literal translaion
or inhibited visual descripion allowance is made for the broader interpretaion of the theme and
for diferent perceptual types. Moreover, students’ preparatory work, involving ideas, research
and exploraion, is considered as important as the inished pieces and is marked accordingly.
‘Support Studies’, a term replacing ‘History of Art’ are submited as a notebook-sketchbook of
study and research arising from an appropriate aspect of the theme. A good project shines with
personal engagement, commitment and uniqueness. It is a joy to behold.
If art has to be examined, then the Junior Cert syllabus is the most suitable meeing
ground for art as process and art as product. It enshrines a fundamental understanding of the
