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EXTRAORDINARY...

This is your GCSE Art Exam question.

It is important that you begin working on the EXAM paper straight away.

START TODAY!

Exam dates….

Tuesday 8th and Wednesday 9th May

There are 6 main starting points.

PEOPLE, PLACES, IMAGINATION, OBJECTS, ACTIVITIES and

NATURAL WORLD.

PEOPLE

Quinn is inspired to work with physical deformity.Looking at fragmented sculptures in the British Museum, he wondered how viewers would respond to bodies that had been damaged during their lifetime rather than after being transformed into objects through artistic representation.

Portrait of Martin Luther King made out of dominoes.

Marc Quinn Robert Bosch

No Woman No Cry 1998. Uses mixed media, including elephant dung!

Chris Ofili

‘Elvis. 1962’. Screenprinting on silk. At that time Elvis was seen everywhere- on TV, magazines, newspapers. The way his image is repeated over and over seems like a comment on that. The fact that the image of Elvis seems to be fading away could be significant...

Andy Warhol

Elizabeth Peyton Peyton painted numerous celebrities in her distinct style which renders each of her models with the same red lips, defined eyes and pale skin.

http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=8042

To the right a good weblink for MOMA gallery for this artist

Artist Georgia O’ Keeffe’s hands with thimble. An alternative way to make a portrait of somebody.

Alfred Stieglitz

Richard Billingham's photographs of his family in their Birmingham flat, published in the book Ray's a Laugh 1996, are a stark, painful and often humorous study of the relationships within his own family. They encapsulate many of the critical questions relating to the position of the observer in relation to the observed.

Richard Billingham

Scramble For Africa. The Swing. 2001.

Fashion designer and sculpture artist. These pieces of work show a very surreal representation of the human form.

Yinka Shonibare

Jason Freeny – Contemporary sculpture

John Hedgecoe-Took the photo of the Queen that is used on postage stamps

Arnold Machin – created the plaster cast of the Queen that is used on postage stamps

This is now a very ordinary sight as we see it all the time on coins and stamps.

Wall mounted wooden sculptures and dark, dry-point etching prints. 2011

Ana Maria Pacheco

Adele Bloch-Bauer 1907. Oil and gold on canvas. She is clasping her hands (she had a deformed finger). Dressed in gold, surrounded by gold. Lots of gold suggests she is wealthy and important.

The Kiss

Gustav Klimt

Julian Opi

Cindy SheermanSherman’s photographs are portraits of herself in various scenarios that parody stereotypes of women. A panoply of characters and settings are drawn from sources of popular culture, old movies, television soaps and pulp fiction.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian Renaissance Artist among many other talents. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time.

Leonardo da Vinci

Lucin Freud

http://www.npg.org.uk/freudsite/

'I've always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint people. It's people who have brought drama to pictures from the beginning. The simplest human gestures tell stories.'

Reflection (Self-portrait), 1985

Current exhibition on at the National Portrait Gallery London 9th Feb – 27th May

“The Great Bear” 1992 – links people of popular culture together.

Simon Patterson

OBJECTS

‘No Escape’ -images of flood scenes had been transfer printed onto children's dresses.

Goldsmith’s work uses textile materials and processes as a metaphor for imagining how psychological states, emotions and memories associated with human fragility and loss can be made visible in cloth.

Shelly Goldsmith

Lisa Milroy- collections of ordinary objects

Guitar Headstock -Oil on panel. Little Clay Pots -Oil on panel.

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Kim KibbyOil paintings of everyday objects

Summer Delight #2:Flip Flops – Oil on panel

Tinker Toy Still Life -Oil on canvas

Andy Warhol- Ordinary Objects

Joseph Cornell

‘Untitled’ (Cocatoo and Corks),1948, 4 3/8 x 13 1/2 x 5 5/8 inchs.

Joseph Cornell’s Art work are collections of bought and found objects in boxes.

Cornell collected source material for his work, which became artistic creations about his inner thoughts, desires, and imagination.

William Michael HarnettHarnett was a very skilled painter. He wanted to make objects look as realistic as possible.

He used an assorted collection of everyday objects to create interesting compositions for his Art.

To the right: ‘Old Models’ 1892 Oil on Canvas

‘A Man's Table Reversed’ 1877 Oil on Canvas

Small scale to large scale...

Louise Bourgeois – Maman, 1999. Bronze. “The Spider is an ode to my mother. She was my best friend. Like a spider, my mother was a weaver. Like spiders, my mother was very clever. Spiders are friendly presences that eat mosquitoes. We know that mosquitoes spread diseases and are therefore unwanted. So, spiders are helpful and protective, just like my mother.”

Claes Oldenburg. Pop artist. Very large replica sculptures of everyday objects, pictured in unusual places.

Su Blackwell – paper cut art

PLACES

“Map of my Day” 1995

Sarah Fanelli

‘Map’ combines a kind of representation, that is, a map of the United States, with many issues more common to abstract painting. Johns combines colour, lines, and readable gestures (brushstrokes), as well as letting paint speak for itself on flat canvas surfaces.

‘Map’ 1961 Oil on canvas

Jasper Johns

Maps

Manus WalshLS Lowry - Market Scene, Northern Town, 1939

Alfred Wallis

Anselm Kiefer – ‘Athanor’. Mixed media textural painting.Can the materials that you use give the place you are depicting a certain mood or feeling?

Ando Hiroshige – Japanese woodblock prints, exaggerating the shapes and pattern seen within a natural landscape. (Ukiyo-e)

Rachel Whiteread – ‘House’ 1993.

A concrete cast of the inside of an entire Victorian terraced house, exhibited at the location of the original house — 193 Grove Road — in East London (all the houses in the street had earlier been knocked down by the council).

It also won the Turner Prize in 1993. Tower Hamlets London Borough Council demolished House on 11 January 1994.

Slinkachu- Little worlds Slinkachu is as a London-based artist who creates very small street-based installations and then photographs them: from far away and up-close.

Faith Ringgold African American

Tar Beach 2 1990 Silkscreen on silk 66 x 66"

Gaudi

The most famous of Gaudi’s work, this church in Barcelona has been in construction for more than 100 years. Gaudi was a devout Catholic and spent over 10 years working just on this project.

ACTIVITIES

John Salt – photorealist painting

Laura Knight - painting

Duane Hanson – Tourists. 1988 Gregory Crewdson - photographer

Nestor Kirchner - paintings

Robert Delaunay – The Runners

The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer - (Bronze) cast in 1922

"Three Studies of A Dancer," by Edgar Degas,

Edgar Degas

“I’ve spent the last 25 years of my photographic career investigating movement and its expressive potential. My inspiration has always been photography’s ability to stop time and reveal what the naked eye cannot see. My interest in photography is not to capture an image I see or even have in my mind, but to explore the potential of moments

Lois Greenfield

http://www.loisgreenfield.com/galleries/index.html

NATURAL WORLD

Angie Lewin - Printmaking

Jean Arp- Feuille se Reposant (Resting Leaf) 1959

Sam Taylor-Wood

Elizabeth Blackadder – botanical drawing and painting.

Carol Sims – acrylic on canvas

Sophie Ryder

Monochrome photography of natural forms such as flowers, seed pods.

Karl Blossfeldt

Weston explored natural form through black and white photography.

Shell, 1927 Vintage gelatin silver print

Edward Weston

(to the right) Carefully broken pebblesscratched white with another stoneSt. Abbs, Scotland1 June 1985

Andy Goldsworthy is a British artist who works with nature, natural form and the natural environment to make his creations.

1956 - presentAndy Goldsworthy

• O’Keefe’s paintings are beautifully contoured forms, realistically painted but using unusual combinations of objects.

• She expertly painted subtle tones and colours.

Ram's Skull, Oil Painting, 1935

Georgia O’Keefe

Yayoi Kusama 1929 - present

PUMPKIN (TOTW) Acrylic on canvas 2003

Kusama is a Japanese American artist who works in a wide variety of media and techniques – prints, sculptures and installations.

Her starting point is often natural form.

Henri Matisse

La Gerbe, one of Matisse's latest works (1953).

"Irises” Oil Painting 1889

Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work has far-reaching influence on 20th Century art due to its vivid colours and emotional impact.

1953 - 1890

David Hockney

Exhibition at the Royal Academy London -21 January - 9 April 2012

Hockney’s recent work has been created on his ipad and his iphone this one is considering the Natural World

http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/hockney/

Below is the Royal Academy website

Psalm 27: Hirst's butterfly and enamel paint on canvas

Damien Hirst

1965 to present

Hirst explores the uncertainty at the core of human experience; love, life, death, loyalty and betrayal through unexpected and unconventional media.

IMAGINATION

Tacita Dean

Tacita Dean trained as a painter and now works in a variety of media, including drawing, photography and sound but is best known for her compelling 16mm films.

Dean's work finds connections between past and present, fact and fiction.

Manus Walsh

Manus Walsh’s work has been described as cubist, abstract, impressionist, surreal, naturalistic and romantic.

Arthur Rackham was an illustrator in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Rackham’s work depicts mythology, folklore and fable

Arthur Rackham

Paula Rego

A number of her prints relate specifically to children's literature, to fairy tales, nursery rhymes and longer fictional works which have a wide popular appeal.

LITTLE MISS MUFFET 1989

http://collection.britishcouncil.org/collection/artist/5/18742/object/40023/

Below.. a good link about the Artist and her work

Brian Froud- Magical Creatures

Salvador Dali – The Persistence Of Memory. 1931.

Swans Reflecting Elephants 1937

Rene Magritte and the Surrealist art movement.

Carel Weight – Paintings that seem to communicate ordinary and extraordinary at the same time...

Anthony Green – watercolour painting

William Blake – poet and painter. A lot of his work was about religion and mythology.

Alberto Schommer –

photography. 1990.

M C Escher – graphic artist who made repeating patterns into artwork and impossible structures.