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Art, Craft & Design A2 Art, Craft & Design GCSE Exam Assessment Criteria • 25% AO1 Develop ideas through investigations informed by contextual and other sources demonstrating analytical and cultural understanding • 25% AO2 Refine their ideas through experimenting and selecting appropriate resources, media, materials, techniques and processes • 25% AO3 Record ideas, observations and insights relevant to their intentions in visual and/or other forms • 25% 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. Assessment Criteria • 25% AO1 Develop ideas through investigations informed by contextual and other sources demonstrating analytical and cultural understanding Assessment Criteria • 25% AO2 Refine their ideas through experimenting and selecting appropriate resources, media, materials, techniques and processes Assessment Criteria • 25% AO3 Record ideas, observations and insights relevant to their intentions in visual and/or other forms Assessment Criteria • 25% 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. Useful links/resources • BBC videos on GCSE bitesize or class clips • Wiki Paintings • www.tate.org.uk • www.juliastubbs.co.uk/gcse-2013/shannen- harris/shannen-harris-01.html • www.studentartguide.com/ • www.nationalgallery.org.uk • www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk • www.vam.ac.uk • www.guggenheim.org • www.africanart.org • www.textilExamrts.net • www.craftscouncil.org.uk • Art finder website More websites: • Thisiscolossal.com – current visual arts magazine • Deviantart.com- visual arts social network • Art.Net- art data base • Art Babble – ‘The youtube of arts’ • Artcyclopedia - art data base • Laughing Squid- arts blog and website • Juxtapoz- online arts magazine THE HUMAN CONDITION • Artists, designers and craftspeople are sometimes inspired by particular characteristics of the human condition. Martin Parr observes modern life, photographing people in provincial and suburban places. Graphic designer Tim Marrs places figures in settings inspire by popular culture. Alice Kettle’s textiles capture human emotion through her expressive use of colour, fibre and free-stitching. Lucy Jones explores her own identity through her gestural self-portrait paintings, and Daniel Silver’s figurative sculptural arrangements are inspired by history and ancient civilisations. • Study appropriate sources and produce your own work based on: • Either People and places • Or Identity Martin Parr Tim Marrs Alice Kettle Daniel Silver David Hockney Anna Higgie Colin Davidson Erin Fitzpatrick Pascal Vilcollet Mark Powell Mark Making • ‘Mark making’ is a term used to describe the process of creating lines, patterns and textures in an artwork. Vincent van Gogh used expressive mark making in many drawings and paintings to describe his subjects. Many of Idris Khan’s digital images are created using multiple layers of lines and are inspired by sources such as music and text. Jim Robinson makes highly textured sculptural ceramics with impressed linear patterns, and Jeanette Appleton uses felt stitch and embroidery to create lines, patterns and textures in her richly embellished panels. • Research appropriate sources and use suitable techniques to create your own work based on mark making. Vincent van Gogh Idris Khan Jim Robinson Jeanette Appleton Eva Bellanger Greg Fadell Michael Chase Karen Jacobs Heather Hansen Abbey Withington Sandra Meech Paul Klee> Ruth Issett FOOD • Many artists, craftspeople and designers are inspired by the shape, colour, form and texture of food. Paul Cezanne made a number of still-life paintings of fruit, and Sarah Graham makes colourful paintings of sweets .Ceramicist Kate Malone has created vessels inspired by exotic fruits, and commercial artist Annabelle Breakey specialises in food photography for advertising, In her ‘Still Life’ video Sam Taylor-Wood recorded the decay of fruit. • Research appropriate sources and make your own work in response to ONE of the following: • A) fruit • B) sweets • C) shape, colour ,form and/or texture in food. FOOD ARTISTS TO RESEARCH • Paul Cezanne • Sarah Graham • Kate Malone • Annabelle Breakey • Sam Taylor-Wood Select 2 from red list • Nanda Palmieri Select 2 from black • Wayne Thiebaud • Tjalf Sparnaay • Hall Groat Wayne Thiebaud • The painter Wayne Thiebaud (1920 - ) is known for supplanting traditional still-life objects like partially eaten fruits, oysters and nuts with what he considers contemporary equivalents like hot dogs, pies and cakes. In his famous painting Cakes (1963, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. ), he paints a dozen cakes with such rich and heavy impasto that the paint literally looks like frosting! Wayne Thiebaud Delilah Smith HALL GROAT DELILAH SMITH Debbie Miller Tjalf Sparnaay Tjalf Sparnaay • Self-taught artist, Tjalf Sparnaay, from Netherlands creates incredibly life-like pictures of food items such as chips, cheeseburgers and desserts. He has been improving his work by painting every day food for the last 25 years. • The 58-year-old said: ‘I take the subjects of my oils from everyday reality, utilizing trivial or mundane items, my intention is to give these objects a soul, a presence.’ • Tjalf Sparanaay is so successful with his unique paintings that his work is now displayed worldwide with art lovers flocking to view the pieces in real life. Each piece sells for around 45,000 euros. Tjalf Sparnaay SPIRALS • Spirals are often used as design elements by artists, craftspeople and designers. Spiral structures can be seen in historical and contemporary architecture. In Maori art, koru spiral designs are used in body adornment and to decorate ceramics, textiles and carvings. Biologist and Illustrator Ernst Haeckel made drawings of spiral forms in nature. Land artists Andy Goldsworthy and Richard Long have frequently made work inspired by natural spiral structures. • Investigate relevant sources and create your own work inspired by spirals. Spirals Koru Plant KORU • The koru is a spiral shape based on the shape of a new unfurling silver fern frond and symbolizing new life, growth, strength and peace. It is an integral symbol in Māori art, carving and tattoos. The circular shape of the koru helps to convey the idea of perpetual movement while the inner coil suggests a return to the point of origin. • Koru is the integral central motif of symbolic, seemingly- abstract kowhaiwhai designs, traditionally used to decorate Maori wharenui (meeting houses). There are numerous semi-formal designs, representing different features of the natural world. Maori Maori The principal traditional arts of the Maori may be broadly classified as carving in wood, stone, or bone, geometrical designs in plaiting and weaving, painted designs on wood and on the walls of rock shelters, and, finally, tattooing. It is the habit of ethnologists to study Maori art as if it had come to an abrupt end on the arrival of the European settlers in New Zealand and to regard post-European work as being of little importance. It is necessary to point out, however, that the major forms of Maori art have never died out and that there is a continuous tradition from pre-European times to the present day. It is true that tattooing is no longer practised and Many of the present-day carvers are descended from families which have produced outstanding carvers for centuries. Modern life has caused many changes, but all arts must develop if they are to live. Ernst Haeckel Ernst Haeckel Ernst Haeckel was a German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor, and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms. The published artwork of Haeckel includes over 100 detailed, multi- colour illustrations of animals and sea creatures , "Art Forms of Nature"). As a philosopher, Ernst Haeckel wrote Die Welträtsel (1895–1899, in English, The Riddle of the Universe, 1901), the genesis for the term "world riddle" and Freedom in Science and Teaching to support teaching evolution. Andy Goldsworthy Andy Goldsworthy • Andy Goldsworthy is a brilliant British artist who collaborates with nature to make his creations. Besides England and Scotland, his work has been created at the North Pole, in Japan, the Australian Outback, in the U.S. and many others • Goldsworthy regards his creations as transient, or ephemeral. He photographs each piece once right after he makes it. His goal is to understand nature by directly participating in nature as intimately as he can. He generally works with whatever comes to hand: twigs, leaves, stones, snow and ice, reeds and thorns. Richard Long Richard Long Art made by walking in landscapes. Photographs of sculptures made along the way. Walks made into text works. Selected exhibitions and a list of solo exhibitions. In the nature of things: art about mobility, lightness and freedom. Simple creative acts of walking and marking about place, locality, time, distance and measurement. Works using raw materials and my human scale in the reality of landscapes. The music of stones, paths of shared footmarks, sleeping by the river's roar. Other artists you could look at… Frantz Jacqui Zephirin Douglas Jen Stark Hundertwa Jonathan sser Gibbs Shelly Beauch FANTASTIC AND STRANGE • Artists, craftspeople
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