art2 exam artist research 2013-14

ART2Controlled Assignment

Art2 Exam Dates 9am – 1pm8 hours in total across two days. The exam dates are as follows:

F block Monday 31st MarchTuesday 1st April

C Block Tuesdat 2nd April Wednesday 3rd April

B Block Friday 4th AprilMonday 7th April

1. Fun of the Fair (dvd)

Eleonora Ronconi - Once upon a time

2. Drawing for a purpose

Ben Heine

3. Bags of interest

Bianco Trash by Luca Pizzaroni

"I was curious to see where trash goes," he said.

Though Manhattan refuse does not actually go to the Middlesex County Landfill, Mr. Pizzaroni's curiosity led him there to create "Bianco Trash," a series of richly colorful photographs of garbage-dump trash.

4. Collection of containers

Bernd and Hilla Becher

Bernd and Hilla Becher

Riverside Silos by Ricardo Barros

There are three silos just outside my studio door. They contain Portland cement, freshly come by ship from South Korea, across several oceans and up the Delaware River. Two silos are spherical, the other more of a cylinder. Immediately in front of them is a small, brick pumping station. It is nearly a perfect cube, capped with a roof comprised of four triangles. Off to the side are mountains of salt, floated in from Chile.

Visitors arriving at my studio are often startled to discover the silos’ existence, even though the containers are visible from a distance. These silos are so huge as to be inseparable from the landscape. They seemingly have always been there. It is, in fact, their enormity that disorders one’s perspective. First, they creep onto the horizon. Then, as one approaches, they overwhelm everything in their presence.

5. Buildings with lettering

Beat Strueli

6. Looking through

Hazel Thompson

Lee Friedlander

7. Closely observing

Walker Evans – Subway portraits

Jonathan Olley - Surveillance

8. Research the visual aspects of a ritual, custom or tradition and produce a personal response to your findings

Consider:• Interwoven within the fabric of our society we

have many unusual features and events which enrich our lives

Liz Hingley

9. Explore contradictions and present a creative statement

Nick Turpin

10. Investigate found objects in works of art and create an outcome incorporating an interesting object or surface you have

found

Marcel Duchamp

Although Duchamp had collected manufactured objects in his studio in Paris, it was not until he came to New York that he identified them as a category of art, giving the English name “Readymade” to any object purchased “as a sculpture already made.” When he modified these objects, for example by mounting a bicycle wheel on a kitchen stool, he called them “Assisted Readymades.” Duchamp later recalled that the original Bicycle Wheel was created as a “distraction”: “I enjoyed looking at it, just as I enjoy looking at the flames dancing in a fireplace.”

11. Study the creative possibilities presented by overlap and produce an original interpretation

Barbara Kruger

City Silhouettes by Jasper James

12. Compare ways in which sequences have been documented and selectively use your analysis to produce a response

Duane Michals

13. Develop your own version of augmented

David Hockney

14. Consider ways in which artists, craftworkers and designers have dealt with emotion in their work and present your own

response to a particular emotion

Film Posters

Elinor Carucci

Francesca Woodman