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10.2 EMC Cohort 2020 Y10 Summer Holiday HW When the Summer Holiday starts to bore you……I have the perfect antidote……………! Work hard now and you will find Year 11 less stressful. “Wonder & Dread” Alke Schmidt 2018 “Wonder & Dread” Alke Schmidt 2018 Close up- For your artist copy (don’t include the artist working on it in-front though) 10.2 SUMMER HOLIDAY HOMEWORK - Students to complete all of the work listed below; TASK A – Complete and present all your identity sketchbook work and final piece(s). No time available in Y11! TASK B – Alke Schmidt “Wonder & Dread” 2018- (page 12 in your booklets) 1. Type up your notes/annotations on this piece during the Saltaire trip into 2-3 paragraphs. Explain what media has been used, the mark-making created and what is the background and why. Try to think about what the artist is communicating. 2. Choose a section of the artwork and make a small (max A5) copy using any media- pencil, coloured pencils, collaged paper, watercolours. TASK C –portrait by David Hockney 1. Create an A5 copy of a section of one of the portraits with the blue backgrounds. Any media. You can use one of your own images/photos that you took on the day or one provided. 2. Take photographs of someone dressed / posing like the person in Hockneys’ portrait. Use one of the photographs to create your own A4 Hockney style portrait. Any media. Save (and print if possible) all your photographs. TASK C – ‘Arrival of Spring’ by David Hockney 1. Use the outline and colour version provided to create an A5 copy of the ‘Arrival of Spring’ picture by Hockney. Highlighters might be worth using in some places with coloured pencils, felt tips or paint in other areas. Your choice of material but try to copy the colours & style. 2. Explore where you live (or maybe where you go on holiday) and take photographs of a place / places which you could use to create an A4 Hockney inspired study. It should relate in terms of subject and colour use to ‘The Arrival of Spring’ I pad work by David Hockney. You could use IT skills to create this image or manipulate the photograph before you start. TASK D – Personal Photographic Study for ‘A Sense of Place’ project (take a minimum of 30 photographs) see other sheet. TASK B Create a copy of (or part of) the David Hockney portrait you described. Use any media. A5 maximum. Take some photographs of people sitting in a similar pose / with the same expression. Use one of the photographs to create a Hockney inspired portrait. Use any media. A4 maximum. TASK D – SEE 3.7.19 LESSON POWERPOINT ON CLASSCHARTS for ideas & some artist links Our visit to Saltaire was the start of a coursework project called ‘Sense of Place’. You have created a lino print and Mock Exam work which features buildings & urban spaces. The second stage of the project is to develop a personal response to the starting point ‘Sense of Place’. AT LEAST 30 PHOTOGRAPHS MUST BE TAKEN READY FOR 1ST SEPTEMBER (SAVE & PRINT IF POSSIBLE). A SHEET(S) OF THUMBNAIL PHOTOGRAPHS IS PERFECT FOR SHARING YOUR RESEARCH or save onto a USB and bring in. This was an exam question in 2012. AS WITH ALL EXAM QUESTIONS IT IS OPEN TO A PERSONAL RESPONSE; Question 1 – Sense of Place Many artists create work inspired by their feelings for particular places. The Camden Town Group recorded everyday scenes of urban life. Photographers John Davies and Raymond Moore responded to the starkness of both urban and industrial landscapes. You could explore; a) urban landscape b) industrial landscape c) natural landscape d) two or more of those landscapes or just a place*. You MUST think about how the place makes you feel and try to express this in your work (uplifted and happy, crowded and claustrophobic, sad and melancholy, a sense of peace and tranquillity?). Then consider how you can capture your feelings in the photographs you take, THINK - Subject – Camera angle – Time of day – Weather conditions *Alternatively you might choose not to focus on a landscape and instead it could be an interior of a private place (the corner of a room, shed, a place in your garden) or public place (a workplace, a church, a school, a favourite park bench, the street where you grew up, a local space in the community where you meet friends etc.). You might include a person/people in your work. Instead objects might be used to refer to a person e.g. a favourite armchair. Special places often have associations with significant memories / past events / people. Due to this certain places can be an important part of our identity. You might focus on a location which is where ‘you can be you’. Explore what it is about that place that makes it so unique and special. However, if you prefer, you can explore somebody elses’ ‘Sense of Place’. A friend, parent, grandparent or a person who you know well and is important in your life. You could subvert the theme and explore then create a response to feeling ‘Out of place’ or create a dual ‘Sense of Place / Out of Place’ image. GOOD LUCK! Edward Hopper is an American artist who created atmospheric scenes often with a single figure. Charles Sheeler (an American Precisionist artist) created paintings York is not the best location for of industrial scenes often composed industrial subjects to by combining several photographs. photograph. Try walking along The paintings do not feature humans the Foss or Hungate. Tadcaster, and are eerily silent. Leeds or Manchester are great places to visit and photograph. Two inspiring mixed media landscape & seascape studies by Cornish artist Kurt Jackson; Paul Gauguin (a French Post-Impressionist artist) created a new life in Tahiti. His colour use suits the light of this Polynesian Island. If you are lucky enough to go abroad on holiday you could take photographs inspired by his landscapes and figurative pieces. Claude Monet created a garden which he painted over and over again at different times of the day and seasons. Gardens have inspired many artists and provide an inspiring, colourful starting point………Rowntrees Park? The Museum Gardens? Your garden? La Collioure in France inspired landscapes by Andre Derain, Pierre Bonnard & Henri Matisse J W Whistler created Nocturne paintings of the river Thames in London at Perhaps you have been or twilight. These are going on holiday. The atmospheric place you visit could be a images hid the great subject. A day out reality of the 19th e.g. to the Dales or coast century industrial might inspire you too! cityscape. Ian Mitchell is an East Riding Landscape Artist who creates calm simplified landscapes; The Camden Town Group recorded the energy of everyday city life in vibrant colour (go to York City Art Gallery to see an original Harold Gilman). See the work of Charles Ginner, Harold Gilman & Walter Sickert. You creating GCSE art work on holiday….! These are all images of St Ives Harbour in Cornwall Van Gogh was very depressed when he painted this image of prisoners at Newgate Prison from a print by Dore. The Kitchen Sink Group – 1950’s Peter Doig Atmospheric and sumptuous scenes that capture moments in time. Explores intense colours and light. Collaged labels, postcards, stamps, forming scenes of streets/buildings- perhaps you could collect things from a place you visit and use these to build up a mixed media piece Karen Stamper L.S Lowry Painted scenes of factory workers based around industrial areas of Manchester His paintings feature grey muted tones and background smoke to depict the dull environments that these people faced each day Joan Eardley Contemporary landscape painter Focus on mark-making and texture Hannah Woodman Meadow scenes that create weather- like atmospheres If you go on any walks over summer to similar meadow-y places, perhaps some carefully controlled angles could work Hockney Pools Simplified shapes and intense blue colours used to paint the movement and refraction of water Could use some holiday snaps to create a response based on his work Lots of ideas………………..it is up to you how you interpret and respond to the theme ‘Sense of Place’. This is your opportunity to take photographs which will provide the starting point for your personal project in September. WARNING If you fail to complete a photographic study during the Summer Holiday you will base your project on photographs of Saltaire..
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