If you are looking for art themes to explore in GCSE or iGCSE lessons, the huge list below is a great starting point. Thank you to art teacher Annie Chapman for this amazing list. A few words link to Pinterest boards.
Aboriginal and native art
Abandoned places
Advertising/Consumption and consumerism, Rich world vs Poor world
Ageing, old and new, decay and change
Beauty.The beauty myth, Self-image
Beautiful vs Ugly
Bullying
Book illustration and text
Casting Shadows
Colour and mood
Camouflage
Cubism
Carnival and Celebration
Culture Patterns, objects, traditions: eg: Africa, Asia. Japan
Collections
Contrasts
Dance
Decay
Distortions
Dream/Surrealism
Design eg. clothes/shoes/campaign poster
Depression/Fragility
Equality
Emotions
Fear and Nightmares Environment
Faces and features
From natural to abstraction
Fantasy
Fragile things
Family
Flowers and plants
Graffiti/murals/Protest messages
Heroes
Identity
Inside out
Insects/butterflies in nature
Impressionism /light in painting
Illustrate a story
Landscapes
Landscapes of the mind, loneliness, loss
Light/dark
Masks
Magnification and macro
Memory
Music
Mirrors/reflection
Money /inequality
Metamorphosis/change
Money
Myths and Legends/Magic
Nature
New/old
Opposites
Out of Place
Ordinary vs extraordinary
Paradise
Pattern eg. patterns in nature/repeat patterns/rotational patterns
Planets/Save the planet/Space
Pop Art and Comics
People
Portrait
Rich world-vs-poor world
Reflections
Realism/Surrealism
Refugees/War
Sea /coast
Seasons
Stories and storytelling
Symbolism
Seven Deadly Sins
Self-portrait
Self-image
Secrets/a secret place
Still life
Texture
Time and Space
Time-lapse/freeze frame/movement
Transformation
Tropical vegetation/Jungles
Trash and/or treasure
Through a Window
Ugly/beautiful
Under water
Vegetables and Fruit
Washed-up, things found on a beach
World within a world
Women in Art
Zoom-in/Close-up
Zodiac
Please comment below if you have more art themes to explore in GCSE & iGCSE lessons and I will add them.
There is also a fantastic list of artists listed by theme on The Arty Teacher. Click the link below to find out more.
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