GCSE Art & Design2013

Controlled Test

(40% of your overall grade)

…possible starting points…

1) Journeys

Artist craftspeople and designers are sometimes inspired by journeys they make. Aboriginal artists have made paintings to document their travels and to define the Australian landscape. Richard long constructs artwork in the landscapes he visits. Franklyn Rodgers’ installation ‘The Elders’ combines image and the recorded spoken word to explore the experience of Afro-Caribbean's who moved to Britain during the mid-twentieth century.

Research appropriate sources and make your own work in response to one of the following:

EITHER (a) travel

OR (b) between here and there

OR (c) life’s journey

Aboriginal

A) Travel ‘Aboriginal artists have made paintings to document their travels and to define the Australian landscape.’

’30 Day Fax Picture’

‘Venezia’ 1968

colour lithograph with gilt 56.5 x 47cm

Hundertwasser

(1928-2000)

Austrian Artist and architect. Perhaps Vienna’s best known contemporary artist.

‘Temple Gardens’

‘Red & White Domes’

Paul Klee

(1879-1940)

Born in Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland, and is considered both a German and a Swiss painter. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. Paintings inspired by his travels to other countries.

Richard Long

(b.1945)

B) Between here and there

‘Richard long constructs artwork in the landscapes he visits.’

Hamish Fulton

(b.1946)

Raoul Dufy

(1877 – 1953)

‘1943-45 (St Ives, Cornwall)’

‘Window-Sill, Lugano’  1923

oil and pencil on canvasboard440 x 535 x 65 mm

oil on board345 x 584 x 55 mm

Ben Nicholson (1894-1982)

Winifred Nicholson

(1893-1981)

Franklyn RodgersC) Lifes journey

Franklyn Rodgers’ installation ‘The Elders’ combines image and the recorded spoken word to explore the experience of Afro-Caribbean's who moved to Britain during the mid-twentieth century.

Lucian Freud

(b.1922-2011)

Lucian Freud was a German-born British painter. Known chiefly for his thickly impastoed portrait and figure paintings, he was widely considered the pre-eminent British artist of his time.

Ron Mueck

(b.1958)

‘In Bed’

Ron is an Australian hyperrealist sculptor working in the UK.