ART & DESIGN DEPARTMENT

	Mr Danny Toh Dean BA/1987/NUS Dip.Ed/1991/NIE DDM/2004/NIE-NTU Area of Specialisation: Oil/Watercolour/ Photography/Mixed Media/Drawing/Digital Media School Magazine Editorial Board (CCA)
	Mr Lowell Dean Farlow Senior Art Teacher M.A.A./1978 Montana State Uni. B.F.A./1972 Uni. of N. Carolina at Greensboro Area of Specialisation: Drawing/Printmaking/Painting/Photography
	Ms Jacqueline Liew Art Teacher BA(Hons) Fine Art (Installation Art)First Class Honours Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology   Area of Specialisation: Installation Art, jewellery design/making, silversmithing & Mixed Media   Art Club (2I/C)
	Mr Adrian Tan Art Teacher BA (Hons) Fine Art (Studio Practice & Contemporary Critical Studies) 2nd Upper Honours Goldsmiths College (London) Art Club (OIC) Area of Specialisation: Mixed Media & Contemporary Critical Studies
	Mrs Serilyn Goh Art Teacher B.A. (Design) / 1996 / Curtin University Area of Specialisation: Graphic Design and Advertising
	Mr Alöysius Gérard Lim Art Teacher BA (Hons) Design (Visual Communications-Photography) Glasgow School of Art Area of Specialisation: Photography/Mixed Media/Digital Media/Photography Photography Club

Vision for Arts Education

Arts education is an integral part of the holistic education of every child. Our long-term vision for arts education is to develop a vibrant culture for the learning and appreciation of the arts in our schools. In this vision, every child will be actively involved in arts activities. Their experiences in the arts will create a love for the arts and contribute to their overall development in other areas of growth. Furthermore, achievements in the arts will be recognised as part of the broader definition of success of an individual in school, in the community and at the national level. This vision for arts education in schools will support and help bring to reality the national vision of Singapore as a Renaissance City.

Today in Context

Today, our Art Curriculum has developed both in breadth and depth so that students can acquire a deep understanding of content areas as well as develop a disposition to want to achieve and excel. From 2006, the Study of Visual Arts (SOVA) will be a component of the revised 'O' and 'A' level Art syllabuses. SOVA aims to teach art appreciation and educate students to be visually literate.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Edgar Degas

Aesthetics is an active perceptual process. It is the interaction between and individual and an object in which the organisation of that object provides a stimulating harmonious experience.

In creating art the basis of form, whatever it might be, comes from self. Any creative activity originates in a person, and it is through the person that the multitude of cognitive and sensory perception takes on form.

In the process of creating a picture for example, an artist paints from his conscious awareness and his unconscious or preconscious motivations; he selects the forms and colours which will make up his final painting.

-- Victor Lowenfeld.

© Anglo-Chinese School (Independent), Alöysius Gérard Lim 2008.