Objectives The objectives of Leaving Certificate Art are to enable learners to: develop aesthetic awareness and understanding develop critical, practical, conceptual, manual and problem-solving skills as well as an understanding of the iterative approach that may be involved develop research, communication and reflective skills engage with current practitioners and connect with current practice, galleries, museums and contemporary art spaces, real-life encounters and the wider art community appreciate and respond critically to their own work, that of their peers as well as society and their environment gain an understanding of Visual Studies and the critical and visual language that supports it appreciate and enjoy the processes involved in researching, creating and responding to Art as a lifelong skill. * Iterative is the application of a cyclical process for arriving at a solution, decision or desired result, which may include analysing previous work, testing further ideas and refining these ideas and work.
