Year 11

ART EXAM

2013

GCSE ART & DESIGN 2013

EXAMINATION • Jouneys • Effects of Light • Collections • Close up

Things you need to know…

• You have just 8 weeks to prepare. • You must meet all 4 assessment

objectives. (25% each, 20 marks) • You must present all work in a

sketchbook or on design sheets. • Your work will be handed in on the 2nd

day of the 10 hour exam (26th March) • Exam – 25th and 26th March

Tips • Choose a question as soon as you can. • Research as many artists as you can and only

choose ones who you feel you would like to influence you.

• Use lesson time well. • Attend art club on Wednesdays and

Thursdays. • DO NOT FALL BEHIND WITH YOUR WORK!! • MEET WEEKELY DEADLINES!!

AO1 - Develop ideas through investigations informed by contextual and other sources demonstrating analytical and cultural understanding • You need to look at the work of other artists from

different times and places. • Make notes about their work explaining your

thoughts and opinions. • Draw, take photos and use the internet to

download images and information about art and artists.

• Try to produce work using similar styles to the artists’ work you have looked at.

Assessment Objectives

AO2 – Refine your ideas through experimenting and selecting appropriate resources, media, materials, techniques and processes. • You need to use lots of different materials and

ways of making art and try to improve how your work looks as you continue to produce it.

• Practise with a range of pencils, pens, chalk, paint, wire, clay, card and any other material used throughout the course.

• Show lots of trying out and attempts in your books, never remove pages and keep all your work.

Assessment Objectives

AO3 - Record ideas, observations and insights relevant to intentions in visual and/or other forms • You need to fill pages of your books with pictures

which are to do with your art projects. • You need to draw objects in real life with any type of

drawing material, pencil, pen etc. • You need to take photos and place these in your

books and you also need to cut and stick pictures you have found in your books.

Assessment Objectives

AO4 - Present a personal, informed and meaningful response demonstrating analytical and critical understanding, realising intentions and where appropriate, making connections between visual, written, oral or other elements. • You need to make a really good final piece of pieces

of work for each project. • This work should show that you have linked it to the

project title or theme and it should have something to do with artists or a culture.

Assessment Objectives

Journeys • Throughout history and across cultures, artists have

responded to different kinds of journey.

• Ancient Egyptians depicted mythical journeys, such as the daily journey of the sun god Ra.

• The Inuit people of Greenland made three-dimensional tactile maps to help them navigate coastlines

• Joseph Cornell created imagined journeys in his box constructions.

• The work of artists Hamish Fulton and Richard Long documents journeys they have made.

Research appropriate sources and produce your own response to ONE of the following:

EITHER (a) an imagined journey OR (b) a real journey.

Ancient Egyptian Mythical Journeys :

Inuit people of Greenland: • Tactile 3D maps created to help them

navigate coastlines

Joseph Cornell • Created imagined journeys in his box constructions • All of Cornell's work was assembled from found

pieces • He filled them with images clipped out of magazines

and objects he found during his thrift store crawls

Hamish Fulton • In response to a walk; Fulton

created large wall texts and a series of drawings, collages and prints. These are reflections of the time he spent in this area.

Hamish Fulton – A 31 Day Road Walking Journey

Richard Long • Art made by walking in

landscapes. • Photographs of sculptures

made along the way • Walks made into text works

Effects of Light • Impressionist painters were inspired by how the effects

of light changed the appearance of their subjects.

• More recently, artists Susan Derges and Garry Fabian Miller have exploited the effects of light to create camera-less photographs, and filmmaker Tacita Dean has explored the unique effects of projected light

Research appropriate sources and create your own work in response to Effects of Light.

Impressionist Painters Claude Monet When Monet painted the Rouen Cathedral series, he had long since been impressed with the way light imparts to a subject a distinctly different character at different times of the day and the year, and as atmospheric conditions change. For Monet, the effects of light on a subject became as important as the subject itself. His Series Paintings, in which he painted many views of the same subject under different lighting conditions, are an attempt to illustrate the importance of light in our perception of a subject at a given time and place

Rouen Cathedral, the West Portal,

Dull Weather 1892

Rouen Cathedral, West Façade,

Sunlight 1892

Rouen Cathedral ,red, Sunlight

1892

The portal and the tower of the saint-romain at

morning sun, Harmony in Blue 1893

Susan Derges • Makes pictures without a camera; most often working with natural

landscapes • Captures the quintessence of that moment of creation: fixing images

onto a surface

River Taw, 19 January 1999, photograph, 76.2cm x 30.5cm by

Susan Derges

Garry Fabian Miller • Has made exclusively 'camera-less’ photographs since the mid

1980s. • He works in the darkroom, shining light through coloured glass

vessels and over cut-paper shapes to create forms that record directly onto photographic paper.

‘Becoming Magma 2' June 2004

Water, light, dye destruction print

‘Becoming Magma, New Year, January 2005'

2005 Water, light, dye destruction print

Tacita Dean • Tacita Dean is a British artist now based in Berlin. • She is best known for her use of film. • Dean’s films act as portraits or depictions rather than conventional

cinematic storytelling, capturing fleeting natural light or subtle shifts in movement.

• Her static camera positions and long takes allow events to unfold unhurriedly.

Collections • Lisa Milroy’s paintings are based on collections of

everyday objects.

• Tony Cragg and Jean Shin have produced installations made from collections of found objects.

Study appropriate sources and produce your own response to ONE of the following:

EITHER (a) a collection of related objects OR (b) a collection of found objects.

• Chrsitian Boltanski often uses photographs of people and collections of related objects in his installations.

Lisa Milroy • Is a Anglo-Canadian painter who lives and works in the UK. • Lisa is known for painting everyday items such as clothes, shoes and

vases in the form of collections. • She paints things in formations such as grids, groups, lines, rows and

columns, which are often painted on plain backgrounds.

Shoes, 1985 Light bulbs, 1988

Melons, 1986

Tony Cragg • Is a British visual artist specialised in sculpture. • Many of Cragg's early works are made from found materials, discarded

construction mate-disposed household materials.

Jean Shin • Jean Shin is an American artist who lives and works in New York City.

She is best known for her labor-intensive, sculptural process of transforming accumulations of cast-off objects into visually alluring, conceptually rich works.

Glass Block (Tacoma), 2006

Hide Series, 2004 Cut leather and suede (shoes),

thread and shoelaces

Settings, 2010 Ceramic plates and tiles

Christian Boltanski • Is a French sculptor, photographer, painter and film maker. • In the 1970s, Boltanski started using mainly photography for expressing

form, exploration of consciousness, and remembering. • After 1976, he started treating photography as painting, making collages

of sliced photographs of still nature and everyday life banality in order to reflect collective aesthetic condition of modern civilization in ordinary, stereotypical way.

Close-up • Artists are sometimes inspired by the idea of close-up

views of their subject.

• For example, the Boyle family, Robert Cottingham, Alison Watt and the photographer Andreas Feininger have created unusual and sometimes abstract work from close-up views.

Research appropriate sources and create your own response to Close-up.

Boyle Family • Boyle Family is a group of collaborative artists based in London. • Boyle Family aims to make art that does not exclude anything as a potential subject. • Over the years, subjects have included: earth, air, fire and water; animals,

vegetables, minerals; insects, reptiles, water creatures; human beings and societies; physical elements and fluids from the human body.

• The media used have included performances and events; films and projections; sound recordings; photography; electron-microphotography; drawing; assemblage; painting; sculpture and installation.

Images from the microprojector in the performance Son et

Lumiere for Insects, Reptiles, & Water Creatures 1966

Projections of bodily fluids during the

performance of Son et Lumiere for Bodily Fluids and Functions 1966

collaborative

natural world

man made environment casts of earth’s surface

abstraction

tactile texture

pattern

photography

Robert Cottingham • Robert Cottingham is considered to be one of most important original Photorealist

painters. Cottingham's work focuses on items associated as Americana.

Robert Cottingham

photo-realism

typography American Life

photography

colour

shape

line symbols

Alison Watt • Alison Watt OBE is a Scottish painter, born in Greenock on 11 December 1965.

Alison Watt graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1988. Pulse, 2006

ALISON WATT

fabrics folds

abstraction composition

tone form

monochrome

emphasis contrast

painting

Domenico Gnoli

the everyday

Surrealism

clothing hair

cropping

detail tone form

visual texture

Michael Chase Area of Interest

visual texture photography

digital manipulation

colour

abstraction

movement

disintegration

Sarah Graham

colour

photo-realism

childhood

painting

tone form

exaggeration

focal point

depth of field

Cara Thayer and Louie Van Patten

collaboration expression

the human condition the body

tone form texture focal point

Ronit Baranga ceramics the human form vessels

sculpture

emphasis

form

neutral colour palette

psychology

Andreas Feininger • Andreas Bernhard Lyonel Feininger was

an American photographer and a writer on photographic technique. He was noted for his dynamic black-and-white scenes of Manhattan and for studies of the structures of natural objects.

Week 1 and 2 (5 lessons)

ASSESSMENT OBJECTIVE 1 RESEARCH – IMAGES & ARTISTS Develop their ideas through investigations

informed by contextual and other sources, demonstrating analytical and cultural understanding.

C 11 - 12 Marks: Grade C • A generally consistent

ability to effectively develop ideas through investigations informed by contextual and other sources.

• A generally consistent ability to demonstrate analytical and cultural understanding.

• Facts about the artist.

• Comments about what you like/dislike.

• Reasons why. • Good layout – written

on lines. • Images of artists

work. • Well presented title. • How the artist could

influence you.

B and A 13 – 16 Marks: Grade B and A

• A consistent ability to effectively develop and explore ideas through investigations purposefully informed by contextual and other sources.

• A consistent ability to demonstrate analytical and cultural understanding.

• Personal response with feelings and mood mentioned.

• Title reflecting the artist.

• Colour/drawings in the border.

• Background.

A* 17 – 20 Marks: Grade A* • A highly developed

ability to effectively develop and creatively explore ideas through investigations informed by

• contextual and other sources.

• A confident and highly developed ability to demonstrate analytical and cultural understanding.

• Whole page reflecting the artist.

• Personal response making connections to the work of others.

• Drawings in the background.

• Exceptional presentation.

• In depth analysis.

Compulsory Tasks • Presenting at least 2 double page

researches. • Create at least one ‘study’ of an artists

work.

To obtain good marks…

• Ask for feedback. • Draft work first if this will help you. • Be as personal as you can be and make

visual links, say how the work will influence your work and how it inspires you.

• Make all written work look beautiful, it is ART after all!!

First Homework

• Bring Research your next lesson on an artist from the exam paper.

• Be prepared to use lesson time to present research.

• Start to present your pages