There are many different meanings for these words and how they can be interpreted in Art.
EarthNoun
1.The planet on which we live; the world. "the diversity of life on earth" Synonyms: world, globe, planet, sphere, orb
2. the substance of the land surface; soil. "a layer of earth" Synonyms: soil, topsoil, loam, clay, silt, dirt, sod, clod, turf.
Verb
1.(British) connect (an electrical device) with the ground. "the front metal panels must be soundly earthed"
2. Hunting drive (a fox) to its underground lair
FireNoun
1. a process in which substances combine chemically with oxygen from the air and typically give out bright light, heat, and smoke; combustion or burning. "his house was destroyed by fire“
2. a burning sensation. "the whisky lit a fire in the back of his throat”
Verb
1. discharge a gun or other weapon in order to propel (a bullet or projectile). "he fired a shot at the retreating prisoners" Synonyms: launch, shoot, discharge, eject, hurl, throw, send flying, let fly with. loose off, shy, send.
2. dismiss (an employee) from a job. "I had to fire men who've been with me for years" Synonyms: discharge, dismiss, give someone their notice, make redundant, lay off, let go, throw out, get rid of
AirNoun
1.the invisible gaseous substance surrounding the earth, a mixture mainly of oxygen and nitrogen.
2. an impression of a quality or manner given by someone or something. "she answered with a faint air of boredom" Synonyms: expression, appearance, look, impression, aspect, manner, bearing, mien, countenance.
Verb
1.express (an opinion or grievance) publicly. "a meeting in which long-standing grievances were aired“ Synonyms: express, voice, make public, vent, ventilate, articulate, state, declare, give expression to, give voice to.
2.expose (a room) to the open air in order to ventilate it. "the window sashes were lifted regularly to air the room“ Synonyms: ventilate, aerate, freshen, refresh.
WaterNoun
1.a colourless, transparent, odourless, liquid which forms the seas, lakes, rivers, and rain and is the basis of the fluids of living organisms. "sodium chloride dissolves in water" Synonyms: aqua
2. A stretch or area of water, such as a river, sea, or lake. “the lawns ran down to the water's edge" Synonyms: sea, ocean, lake, loch, pond, pool, reservoir, river
Verb
1.pour or sprinkle water over (a plant or area) in order to encourage plant growth. "I went out to water the geraniums" Synonyms: sprinkle, moisten, dampen, wet, spray, splash.
2. (of a person's eyes) fill with tears. "Rory blinked, his eyes watering”
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Everybody knows... the Everybody knows... the four AOs four AOs
For the exam you have to show evidence of: ALL 4 of the AOs (Assessment Objectives)
AO1: Looking at other artists AO2: Experimenting with media AO3: Recording your ideas AO4: Making a final piece
It is important that you begin working on the EXAM Paper straight away.
START TODAY!
Exam dates….
8th, 9th and 12th May
Where to begin?Where to begin?
Remember ….
The theme is merely a starting point to inspire you.
Feel free to take the project in any direction that you wish, provided that you can clearly justify and explain how the theme has inspired your thoughts and ideas.
The Four Elements
The ancient Greeks believed that everything was composed of a mixture of just four ‘elements’ – earth, air, water and fire.
This is not quite as silly as it might at first sound; the world is composed of matter in various ‘states’ - solid, liquid and gas and plasma - a type of very hot high energy gas. The Greeks had in effect divided all matter into the four basic categories which we now called solids, gases, liquids and plasma.
Earth – (solids)Air – (gases)Water – (liquids)Fire – (plasma)
Gas
Solid Liquid
EARTHFIREAIR WATER
You must begin by exploring all the themes below. You then may narrow your ideas down by choosing to focus on just some or one of the words.
Contextual references
The artists on the next few pages are suggestions to help you think about possible ideas. You may already have ideas of your own.
Keep an open mind at this point...
There is also a Beaumont Pinterest Album of Artists and ideas to support you with your project
EarthEarth
Claude Monet
Jelle MartensMartens work combines strong graphic blocks of colour woven together with saturated grainy photography to create dynamic visual palettes.
Marten is a Belgian Artist, Photographer and Graphic Designer
Herbert La Thangue
La Thangue was an English realist rural landscape painter
(19 January 1859 – 21 December 1929)
David Hockney
Kurt Jackson
Fiona Hall
“In my work this romantic ideal of union with the natural world conflicts with our contemporary impact on the environment. These pieces are in part responses to environmental stressors including climate change, toxic pollution, and GM crops”.
Kate MacDowell.
Judith BraunNew York-based artist Judith Braun creates all these wonderful landscapes and abstract patterns using nothing but her fingers dipped in charcoal dust
Taste the Rain is part of an ongoing series of work using material that has fallen from trees: acorns, beechnut casings, leaves, bark, sycamore keys
Anna Gillespie
Kimberly Kersey AsburyAbout the Landscape Series: Powered Pigment, Wax, Paint, Thread, Stuffing on Canvas, Paper, and/or Fabric. The landscapes along with the hand-stitched artist books are inspired by William Turner’s watercolor sketchbooks.
Born in 1962, in La Habana, Cuba Lives and works in Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Jorge Mayet
Alfred creates collages, paintings, and digital animations.Brian Alfred
Jared Steffensen
FireFire
Lucas Simoes Simões takes photographic portraits and burns through the eyes. Whilst the images themselves aren't of a particularly disturbing nature, the destruction of them using such a brutal media and to create such sensitive forms results in something quite grotesque but enchanting.
Antony GormleyWASTE MAN was made over a six-week period at the end of summer 2006 out of about 30 tonnes of waste materials that had been gathered by the Thanet waste disposal services in Kent and by local people, and deposited in Dreamland, the area of Margate next to the sea and close to the station that had traditionally been the site of a vast funfair.
Fire Paintings, 1960
Yves Klein
Eruption of Vesuvius, 1776
Joseph Wright of Derby
Pierre Debusschere is a visual artist working in the fields of photography & video. He has shot editorials for several leading magazines such as Vogue Homme Japan and Citizen K, as well as being a regular contributor to Dazed & Confused.
Pierre Debusschere
For Hegarty, the joy of her work lies in its destruction rather than its making. Centering her practice on the politics of the American myth, Hegarty’s canvases and sculptures replicate emblems of frontier ethos - colonial furniture, antique dishware, and heroic paintings of landscapes and national figures only to demolish them by devices associated with their historical significance.
Valerie Hegarty
Georges de La Tour was a French Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which was temporarily absorbed into France between 1641 and 1648. He painted mostly religious chiaroscuro scenes lit by candlelight.
Georges De La Tour
Van Gogh
AirAir
Tim Knowles
Catherine Eaton Skinner
Damien Hirst
The Artist 'blows away' photo subjects with powerful blasts of wind to create interesting facial expressions in images
Tadao Cern
A beautiful series of photographs, inspired by what she wants to experience.
Maia Flore
Ingberg is a self-taught photographer and visual artist, born 1980 in Sweden. He works with photography and digital image editing, creating minimalistic and self-reflecting surreal photo montages dealing with human nature, feelings and thoughts.
Tommy Ingberg
Gerhard Richter
Perceiving the flow
Gil Bruvel
Paper in Three Dimensions”My work is about retrieving the discarded, celebrating the unwanted and giving new life to the obsolete. I use old and out-of-date maps and atlases as my fabric to create intricate, delicate and detailed sculptures.”
Claire Brewster
Hanging paper flower installation
Lisa Keophila, Fiona Lim Tung, Kristen Lim Tung & Jon Margono
A sudden gust of wind, 1993
Wall produced this clever image with multiple exposures, combined in post production (image manipulation). His inspiration was the Hokusai print
Jeff Wall
Wind
Adrian Sommerling
“My inspiration comes while trekking through the gritty chaos of a metal scrap yard, abandoned alleyway or natural area. I find beauty in imperfection and may often times see it in scarred, weathered and entropic surfaces of a rusty scrap of metal, natural stone or other found objects.”
LuAnn Ostergaard
series of photographs / rotting fruit
Peter Lippmann
WaterWater
To see more of Turner’s paintings visit the National Maritime Museum (exhibition lasts to 21st April 2014).
William Turner
Alfred Wallis
Ana Teresa Barboza
My home is the sea
Matt Wisniewski
Sophie Calle met people in Turkey who despite living close to the coast had never seen the sea. These films show the first time they look at the ocean. They were asked to turn around and face the camera when they were ready. Emotions range from elation to bitter tears.
“Voir La Mer” (To see the sea)
Sophie Calle
Peter Doig
“As part of my research for the course I discovered the textiles and clothing of the Caribou Inuit in Northern Canada and was fascinated by the Arctic landscape.”
Sandra Meech
Thomas Saliot
Oil paintings of pools
Jean-Pierre Kunkel
Alexandre Ciancio
Deniz Senyesil
Katsushika Hokusai
Aneta Ivanova
Crespo is a photographer whose work has featured in Urban Outfitters, Elle Decor UK, NY Mag's TheCut.com Apartment Therapy, SFGirlByBay, Creature Comforts, and Philly.com
Tina Crespo
Buamai - Bubble Drawings :
Charlotte X. C. Sullivan
Ink and waterAlberto Seveso
Linnea Strid
AllAll……
Dorothea Lange
“You are the Weather”
Roni Horn
Mueck's sculptures faithfully reproduce the minute detail of the human body, but play with scale to produce disconcertingly jarring visual images.
Ron Mueck
Lucian Freud
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