I, Me, Mine

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I, Me, Mine

• You can pursue any of these starting points or
  devise your own.
• Avoid the visual cliché (overused image)
• Ensure that you can access Primary sources for
  your idea.

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I, Me, Mine

• You will be able to choose from one of the
  following themes-
• 1) Objects
• 2) People
• 3) Places
• 4) Hopes, Fears and Memories

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Objects

• A collection of objects may stand for an aspect
  of a persons life.
• Do you have memorabilia, treasures or gifts that
  are meaningful to you, that reflect your mood or
  feelings and that you could use as a starting
  point?
• Do you have a collection of souvenirs that bring
  to mind periods in your life?
• Some artists moved away from imitating nature and
  aimed to show what was known about an object
  rather than as it appeared at a particular moment
  or from a particular position

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Objects

• As a starting point you may wish to collect
  photos and produce observational drawings of the
  following-
• Jewellery, personal objects, good luck charm,
  photos, gifts received, objects collected on
  holiday, souvenirs, natural forms, objects found
  in your home and at school.

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Pop Art

• Pop art is a visual art movement that emerged in
  the mid 1950s in Britain and in parallel in the
  late 1950s in the United States Pop art, like pop
  music, aimed to employ images of popular as
  opposed to elitist culture in art, emphasizing
  the banal or kitschy elements of any given
  culture. It has also been defined by the artists
  use of mechanical means of reproduction or
  rendering techniques that down play the
  expressive hand of the artist. Pop art at times
  targeted a broad audience, and often claimed to
  do so.

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Pop Art
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Andy Warhol
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Claes Oldenburg
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Patterned Fabric

• Art Nouveau (French for 'new art') is an
  international style of art, architecture and
  design that peaked in popularity at the beginning
  of the 20th century (1880-1914) and is
  characterised by highly-stylised, flowing,
  curvilinear designs often incorporating floral
  and other plant-inspired motifs Art Nouveau is
  considered a 'total' style, meaning that it
  encompasses a hierarchy of scales in design
  architecture interior design decorative arts
  including jewelry, furniture, textiles, household
  silver and other utensils, and lighting and the
  range of visual arts.

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Art Nouveau
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Art Nouveau
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Pablo Picasso
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Juan Gris
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Georges Braque

• Picasso, Gris and Braque all belong to the cubist
  movement. They were not interested in
  representing objects in a realistic way but
  simplifying shapes of objects and drawing from
  multiple viewpoints.

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Hans Holbein

• Hans Holbein1497-1543 was a German Artist who
  painted this image of two high born men and it
  contains objects that represent them as people.

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Joseph Cornell

• Cornell's most characteristic art works were
  boxed assemblages created from found objects.
  These are simple boxes, usually glass-fronted, in
  which he arranged surprising collections of
  photographs or Victorian bric-à-brac. Many of his
  boxes, such as the famous Medici Slot Machine
  boxes, are interactive and are meant to be
  handled.

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Sculptures of Organic forms

• Henry Moore

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Sculptures of Organic Forms

• Barbara Hepworth

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Sculptures of Organic Forms

• Peter Randall-Page

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People

• Artists often make images of themselves and those
  around them.
• Could self portrait studies provide you with an
  opportunity to produce effective and sensitive
  images of your view of yourself?
• Portraits of members of your family or friends,
  past and present, might offer a chance for you to
  explore their pesonality and mood
• Facial expressions, gestures and body language
  could form the focus for figure studies or
  potraits.
• An accidental or prearranged meeting or brief
  encounter might help you to develop a response.

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People

• As a starting point you may wish to collect
  photos and produce observational drawings of the
  following-
• Family, friends, self portrait, facial
  expressions, gestures, body language, figure
  studies

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Family/Friends

• Portraits/Human Figure You may wish to explore
  how various artists look at the representation of
  the face and human body in an emotive way.

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Lucien Freud

• Lucien Freud produced a series of portraits which
  consisted of mark-making, using hatching, cross
  hatching, diagonal lines, and dots.

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Jenny Saville

• You may wish to explore how Jenny Saville
  disfigures the faces to show them in an
  unflattering way.

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Chuck Close

• Chuck Close produced a series of portraits in
  which he fragmented the face. The images are
  made up of minute multicoloured dots, so that the
  viewers attention fluctuates between surface
  pattern and overall picture, which can only be
  read from a distance.

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Picasso

• You may wish to explore the way in which Picasso
  distorts and fragments the face drawing the
  figure from multiple viewpoints.

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Kathy Kollwitz
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Edward Hopper

• Edward Hopper produced a series of stark urban
  and rural scenes that uses sharp lines and large
  shapes, played upon by unusual lighting to
  capture the lonely mood of his subjects. He
  derived his subject matter from the common
  features of American life gas stations, motels,
  the railroad, or an empty street and its
  inhabitants

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Jack Vettriano
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Places

• A number of artists have aimed to capture the
  immediate visual impression of places
  concentrating on light and atmosphere
• Does your personal living space at home reflect
  who you are and offer an interesting setting for
  you to explore and describe?
• Do your local surroundings, the countryside, the
  city, town or village in which you live, have a
  special appeal for you
• Are there places that you have visited that are
  memorable? Are there places that you hope to
  visit which have a particular interest for you?

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Places

• As a starting point you may wish to collect
  photos and produce observational drawings of the
  following-
• Living space at home, local surroundings, the
  countryside, city, town, village, school, church,
  seascape.

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Doorways and Windows

• Patrick Caulfield explores colour using
  harmonious and contrasting colours, he uses
  simplified lines when illustrating interiors of
  rooms.

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Buildings in the City
Architecture Frank Gerhy Creating the 3.D.
models for the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao,
Spain, Frank Gerhy drew his inspiration from
sculptors such as Constantin Brancusi, rather
than architects or builders. Gerhy expresses a
need to resist conventions and traditions and
instead explores pure freedom in materials and
form. His work combines sculptural forms and
architecture, to create new and unusual buildings
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• Land artists, Andy Goldsworthy and Richard Long
  use natural materials that decay and decompose in
  their work. Ephemeral and transient materials are
  used in their creations, liberating artists to
  observe the effects that decay, erosion and time
  exert on their work.

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Patterns in the City Hundertwasser 1928-2000
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Patterns in the CityGaudi 1852-1926

• Gaudí, throughout his life, was fascinated by
  nature. He studied nature's angles and curves and
  incorporated them into his designs. Instead of
  relying on geometric shapes, he mimicked the way
  trees and humans grow and stand upright. Gaudí
  loved for his work to be created by nature as he
  used concrete leaves and vine windows to create
  his ideas for him, so his work is not just
  because of him but because of nature as well.

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Gaudi
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Futurist Artists Delaunay/DeperoBuildings in the
City

• The Futurists glorified the energy and speed of
  modern life together with the dynamism and
  violence of the new technological society. In
  their manifestos, art, poetry, and theatrical
  events, they celebrated automobiles, airplanes,
  machine guns, and other phenomena that they
  associated with modernity they denounced
  moralism and feminism, as well as museums and
  libraries, which they considered static
  institutions of an obsolete culture...

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Futurism
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Claude Monet
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Vincent van Gogh
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Paul Cezanne
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L S Lowry
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Hopes, Fears and Memories

• From time to time, artists have used distortion
  and exaggeration of shape and colour to express
  emotion and feelings.
• The personal and secret world of your dreams and
  fantasises and how you feel inside is often very
  different from the image you show the outside
  world. Can you reveal this inner world?
• Could you explore personal misfortune, worries,
  sadness or fear through your work?

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Hopes, Fears and Memories

• Memories of an event or experience in early life
  can have a profound emotional impact living amid
  conflict, the reality of war, and the experience
  of asylum or migration to start a new life in a
  new country.

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Hopes, Fears and Memories

• Revealing your likes, dislikes, ambitions or
  personal points of view could provide a suitable
  starting point.

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Salvador Dali
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Rene Magritte

• Dali and Magritte belong to the Surrealist
  Movement. Their techniques consisted of
  distortion, juxtaposition, metamorphosis and
  scale.

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Frida Kahlo

• Frida Kahlo kept a diary of her sadness and
  personal misfortunes in life.

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Edward Munch

• Munch expressed emotion through exaggeration of
  shape and colour.

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Munch
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German Expressionism
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Wassily Kandinsky

• Kandinsky was greatly inspired by music and his
  paintings consisted of various shapes, patterns
  and colour which he felt represented what he
  heard.

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I, ME, MINE

• You have eight weeks to prepare for your timed
  test. The exam preparation work is worth 75 of
  the final exam mark.
• The timed test (Final Piece) is worth 25 of the
  final exam mark.

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I, ME, MINE

• Your sketchbook should take you and the examiner
  on a journey.
• Aim to produce a minimum of 16 pages in your
  sketchbook.
• Good Luck!