GCE A2 ART CRAFT & DESIGN
Unit 4:externally set assignment
Freedom and/or Limitations
COMBINATIONS & ALLIANCES
Starter:Exploring ideas relating to the exam question
Working on your own explore answers to the above question.
You are to write your ideas on the paper provided and be ready to present this to the rest
of the group at the end.
Key question:What creative possibilities does this theme
present to you as an artist?
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You have 2 Minutes from now to come up with an answer
Challenge Yourself: Try to think of ideas rather than just subject matter.
Your time is up
Learning OutcomesBy the end of the lesson:
MOST will be able to: * Develop understanding of starting point themes and related artists
ALL will be able to:
* Make connections between starting points related to the theme Freedom and/or Limitations
SOME will be able to:
* Make connections between ideas and artists and collate a range of key words & images related to theme Freedom and/or Limitations
Read through exam paper together
Students to note down on the brainstorm any new ideas they may develop during this process.
FauvismFauvism is the style of les Fauves, a group of early twentieth-century modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong colour over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism.
ANDRÈ DERAIN
CubismCubism is an early-20th-century art movement which brought European painting and sculpture historically forward toward 20th century Modern art. Cubism in its various forms inspired related movements in literature and architecture.
Georges Braque
‘Readymades’ of Marcel Duchamp
Van Gogh Piet Mondrian
Artists relish the Freedom to explore ideas and express personality in their work
Sydney Carline Peter Lanyon
Tania Kovats Francis Alÿs
Freedom of flight and travel
Degas
Matisse
Freedom and Limitations of Dance inspired artists such as
Paul Klee
romare bearden
PICASSO
MUSIC INSPIRED ARTISTS
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Industries and new materials allow artists and designers the freedom to explore new ideas and push materials to new limits
Panton
Warhol
Joris Laarman
Edmund de Waal
Eva Hesse
Rodger Hiorns cave of copper sulphate – Peckham flat
POSSIBLE CONCEPTSHere are some further suggestions generated by the theme that might inspire your journey with the exam theme
FREEDOM and/or LIMITTIONSConcepts / theme ideas
Fences, Barriers, Boarders, chains, ropes, buildingDitches, tidal reaches, city limitsArcs, intersections, parabolas, mathematical forms Captivity, confinement, prisons, offices, cellsstresses, cracks, breaking pointfree expression, political freedoms, debate, discussion, argument, protesttravel, exploration, independence, leisure, holidays, escapedance, eccentricity, abandonment, rescueflight, birds, aeroplanes, clouds, thermalsrunning, jumping, falling, swimming, divingswirls, marks, gesture, coloursleotards, cycling clothes, flowing fabrics, wetsuits
TASK 2:1. Each slide is 15 seconds. You need to
note down on paper provided any artists names and possible themes which inspire
you and which you want to research further
2. List key words which spring to mind
STARTING FROM THE NEXT SLIDE
MOST will be able to: * Develop understanding of starting point themes and related artists
ARTISTS interested in FREEDOM/LIMITATIONSSUB-THEME-
MOST will be able to: * Develop understanding of starting point themes and related artists
ARTISTS interested in FREEDOM/LIMITATIONSSUB-THEME- running, jumping, falling, swimming,
diving
Alyssa Monks
Hengki Koentjoro
Matthew Davis
MOST will be able to: * Develop understanding of starting point themes and related artists
Alyssa Monks
Hengki Koentjoro
Matthew Davis
• Kevin Sinnott
Kevin Sinnott
ARTISTS interested in FREEDOM/LIMITATIONSSUB-THEME- disguise, free expression, clothing,
mask, binding
MOST will be able to: * Develop understanding of starting point themes and related artists
Deenesh Ghyczy
Andrei VargaJustin Bartel
Rachel Graves
Matthew Davis
Mauritzio Anzeri
Gillian Lambert
yinka shonibare
ARTISTS interested in FREEDOM/LIMITATIONSSUB-THEME-
MOST will be able to: * Develop understanding of starting point themes and related artists
Kirsty witlock
Gregory Crewdson
Heiko Waechter street photographer THE EVERYDAY
Marc Ayers
PROTEST
gary knight
James nachtwey)
ARTISTS interested in ENVIRONEMENT FINE ART & photography SUB THEME RELATIONSHIPS, &
HUMANITY PORTRAITURE
• Howard schatz
• Monika Eichert
• Cindy sherman
• Sally mann
• JENNY SAVILLE
• LUCIEN FREUD
• SAMUEL STERN (woven photos)
MOST will be able to: * Develop understanding of starting point themes and related artists
Sally Mann
Monika Eichert
Bill viola
Society
RELATIONSHIPS
Howard SCHATZ
Cindy Sherman
Samuel stern
ARTISTS interested in ENVIRONMEN PHOTO SUB THEME eyesores, the sublime, blots on the
landscape
• PAUL NASH
• AMY SHAKLETON
• ANDREAS GURSKY
• ANSEL ADAMS
• John Pfahl
• ROMANTICISM http://www.artofmanliness.com/2011/03/03/the-basics-of-art-the-romantic-period/
MOST will be able to: * Develop understanding of starting point themes and related artists
AMY SHAKLETON
• Gravity artist
• Evolving relationship between nature and man
John Pfahl
ANDREAS GURSKY
• SCARING THE LANDSCAPE, BLOTS ON THE LANDSCAPE
PETER PENDERGAST
THOMAS COLE ENGLISH ROMANTIC MOVEMENT
TURNER
CASPER DAVID FREIDRICH
• THE SUBLIME IN NATURE Nature was not just beautiful, but awe inspiring, somewhat terrible, but fascinating and grand
ARTISTS interested in ENVIRONMENT PHOTOGRAPHY SUB THEME flaws
PHILIP TOLEDANO
STEPHEN GILL
RITA BERNSTEIN
MOST will be able to: * Develop understanding of starting point themes and related artists
PHILLIP TOLEDANO
STEPHEN GILL
RITA BERNSTEIN
ARTISTS interested in ENVIRONMENT photography SUB THEME DECAY
Aaaron Siskind
Anya Gallachio
MOST will be able to: * Develop understanding of starting point themes and related artists
Linda ingraham
Aaron siskind
Anya gallachio
Aislinn Leggett
Character
Scars on the landscape
Scars on the landscape
Chris Jordan
Psychological States
Psychological States
Psychological States
Macro World/Microscopic World
Macro World/Microscopic World
TASK 3: (30mins)
AMBER GROUP/ RED GROUP:
Research artists and themes which inspire you, collect images and PRESENT AS MIND-MAP ON PPT - at least 4 areas
GREEN GROUP:
As above but researching 7 areas and 7 concepts
SOME will be able to:
* Make connections between ideas and artists and collate a range of key words & images related to theme
Task 4: (5 mins)In your groups…
AMBER/ RED GROUP:
Come up with 3+ words which describe each of your starting points (total 10+ words)
Green:
Come up with 5+ words which describe each of your starting points and concepts (30+)
• TASK 5: (30 mins)
• AMBER GROUP RED GROUP::
1. Research definitions of words which inspire you (use exam paper word lists to help you)
2. Find alternative words using thesaurus
• at least 3 areas (20+word alternatives)
• GREEN GROUP:
• As above but researching 6 areas and 6 concepts (40 + word alternatives)
SOME will be able to:
* Make connections between ideas and artists and collate a range of key words & images related to theme
HOMEWORK: WEDNESDAY BY TUESDAY
YOU MUST HAVE COLLATED ALL IMAGES & WORDS RELATED TO STARTING POINTS.
THESE MUST BE PRESENTED ON MIND-MAP IN PPT
GREEN GROUP> YOU ALSO NEED TO PRESENT ON BOARD IN SKETCHBOOK ADDITIONAL STARTING POINT MOOD BOARD
Books
Books:
Creating "Creature Comforts": The Award-winning Animation Brought to Life from the Creators of
"Chicken Run" and "Wallace and Gromit": Andy Lane, Aardman, Boxtree
The Documentary Film Maker's Handbook: A Guerilla Guide: by Genevieve Jolliffe,
Andrew Zinnes, Continuum
Robert Doisneau: A Photographer's Life: by Peter Hamilton, Abbeville Press
Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera: by Ron Schick, Little-Brown
Norman Rockwell: 332 Magazine Covers: by Christopher Finch, Abbeville Press
Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American
Internment: by Dorothea Lange, Linda Gordon, Gary Okihiro, W.W.Norton
Robbert Flick: Sequential Views: by Robbert Flick, Aperture
Eadweard Muybridge: by Philip Brookman, Tate Publishing
Cubism (Art of Century Collection): by Dorothea Eimert, Parkstone Press
Hockney's Photographs: by David Hockney, Arts Council of Great Britain