tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85002687454805732212024-03-13T11:14:23.484-07:00You lost your worksheet?Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07184668271132578082noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8500268745480573221.post-64606077712145915042008-05-06T12:38:00.001-07:002008-05-06T12:48:52.073-07:00YEAR TWELVES<br /><br /><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Workbook tasks: Focus on Critical & Contextual investigation:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Deadline 1: Tuesday 27<sup>th</sup> May, (Day 3) <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">12 sides total : <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">8 sides for <b style="">Critical & Contextual Research Tasks (see weblog or back of this sheet for full details) <o:p></o:p></b></span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://saintgeorgesart.blogspot.com/">http://saintgeorgesart.blogspot.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">4 sides response to gallery visit (there will be a specific preparation and task guide sheet prior to the trip)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Deadline 2: Thursday 19<sup>th</sup> June (Day 1) <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">12 additional sides including:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Development and expansion of your second </span><st1:state><st1:place><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Madrid</span></st1:place></st1:state><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"> project<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Idea gathering and possibilities for your main ‘Theme’ for the summer & the 7 calendar months (including holidays) that you have left of the course when you come back in September!<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Words, original photographs, observation, brainstorming, collaged craziness and experimentation. Ideas for artists whose work might encourage or inspire you. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Good Y13 themes recently have included ‘Chaos’, ‘Intimacy’, ‘Barriers’, ‘The Passage of Time’, ‘Childhood’, ‘Boundaries Between Painting & Fashion’<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Don’t confuse a technique or medium with a theme – fashion, video, animation, painting etc are all ‘media’ or techniques that could be explored and used in relation to a specific theme.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">The sooner you talk to me about your ideas the sooner I can feedback other ideas <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">to you.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Over the summer there will be other tasks to do including a major piece of studio work – so don’t leave this work for then!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><br /> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Critical & Contextual Research Tasks (read through them all and then choose ONE)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">These are reasonably loose themes that you could deviate from slightly during the evolution of the outcome. However, the final outcome, spread over <b style="">8</b> continuous sides of your RWB should include at least 1200 words of <b style="">ORIGINAL</b> text. Of course you may refer to books, websites and so on. However, as usual you must <b style="">acknowledge every source</b> (author and title or website address is fine). Make <b style="">rough notes</b> on paper first rather than plunging straight in – plan the task a bit like an essay. Don’t worry too much about 5 hour stunning picture pages. Use drawing and painting selectively to draw attention to very specific <b style="">details</b>. Stick printouts (smallish and <b style="">RELEVANT</b>) amongst the text to support your arguments and descriptions. No rainbow backgrounds etc – this text must be easy to read – but don’t actually type it out and paste it in! Which ever them you choose you must focus on describing the works<span style=""> </span>in detail with good use of Art specific language. Use metaphor, but not waffle! Compare work from different cultures/time periods. Explain the CONTEXT in which the work was made: by whom? For whom? When? Why? What is its function? The work needs to be legible and well presented, but the content is the key – written and visual, so don’t spend hours decorating these pages. Where possible make connections between the work that you are describing and your own projects and interests.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">1: The changing impact of Art when removed from its intended location</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Comparing the potentially diminished impact of religious art when transplanted from church/temple to gallery/museum and graffiti when taken from walls, trains, subways to the ‘safe’ middleclass gallery environment. Giotto, Michelangelo, Haring, Basquiat, <a href="http://www.grandcentralartcenter.com/gcacPages/Artists/KScharf.html">Kenny Scharf</a> etc. Does an artefact (such as a mask)<span style=""> </span>with powerful symbolic meaning in its native culture become something else (for better or worse) when transplanted to a gallery. Does putting an ‘everyday’ object into a gallery make it into ‘Art’?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">2: Group Identities, Boundaries and Borders in Art</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><br /><br />How and why do groups of people (nationalities, religions, armies, tribes, gangs, football clubs, companies etc) display their group identities through art and visual imagery? How might groups of people be identified by ‘outsiders’? (think of how you chose to represent countries by food – what other symbols or clichés might work in the same way)<br /><br />Some Ideas:<br /><br />Look at propaganda paintings (American ‘Uncle Sam’, British ‘Your Country Needs You’, German, Russian, Italian & Japanese posters from the 2nd world war for example) Soviet Socialist Realism etc<br /><br />Masks, Uniforms and Costumes from various tribes, groups and societies (from the Masaai and the Spanish navy to the Iroquois and the Ku Klux Klan)<br /><br />Badges, Logos and Icons – from paintings of crucifixions in an Italian Church to the ‘Lupetto’ of AS. Roma Modern Graffiti on trains, walls etc.<br /><br />History paintings – battles, conquests and maps. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Look at Albrecht Altdorfer, Paolo Uccello , Simone Martini, Ambrogio Lorenzetti. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">The Bayeux Tapestry etc<br /> <!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br /> <!--[endif]--></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">3: ‘Talking about Art is like dancing about Architecture’ (Frank Zappa)</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><br /><br />Can one art form explain another?<br /><br />How have visual artists tried to depict performance and music in their work?<br /><br />Japanese prints of theatrical performance (Hiroshige, Hokusai etc)<br /><br />European painting and sculpture: Degas, Caravaggio, Fiorentino, Watteau, Italian futurist paintings (and music), Breughel, Lautrec, Max Beckmann, Picasso’s Circus performers etc.<br /><br />Masks and costumes that express the role of the wearer – from various African nations and tribes, theatrical masks from China, Japan, Greece etc.<br /><br />How has music been influenced by visual artists and vice versa?<br /><br />Many visual artistic movements/styles had a musical equivalent (Baroque, Impressionist, Modernist, Dadaist)<br /><br />Schoenberg (painter and composer), Matisse (La Danse, La Musique etc), Mondrian (Broadway Boogie Woogie)</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">4: Symbiosis: Humans and Nature in Art.<br /></span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><br />Investigating art that suggests the strength of the relationship between humankind and the environment around it.<br /><br />Possible artists:<br /><br />Pre 20th Century European: Metamorphosis – plants and animals into humans - Bosch, Bernini, Arcimboldo etc<br /><br />Modern European: Andy Goldsworthy (abstract forms from natural materials), Anthony Gormley, Sophie Ryder (animal human creatures), Land Art – Robert Smithson. Picasso’s Centaurs etc.<br /><br />Non European: Ritualistic animal masks, fetishes and totems from a variety of cultures: North and South American, African etc. Hindu animal human hybrid gods etc.<br /><br />What do these metamorphic or hybrid beings suggest about human origins, relationships with nature and each other?<br /><br />Romantic Art – the idea of humans at the mercy of the immense power of nature Caspar David Freidrich, JWM Turner, Albert Bierstadt etc</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">5: How has the image of women (as a subject) in Art changed through the 20th century?</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Liberation? <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Emancipation? <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Effects of 2 world wars, new technology etc…<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Political change including the vast increase in the number of women artists. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Feminism. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Look at Picasso, Klimt, Modigliani, Giacometti, Warhol, Gwen John, Frida Kahlo, Dali, Freud, Jenny Saville, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Tracey Emin, Mona Hatoum, Sarah Lucas, <span style=""> </span>(amongst others!) Read Germaine Greer on the subject for a feminist perspective "The Obstacle Race: The fortunes of women painters and their work", (book in the library)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">6: Abstraction, patterns and geometry</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">How can artists express meaning without showing ‘realistic’ cows, people and hills in their work? OK this title is a bit flippant, but for this project you will <b style="">compare</b> the ways in which artists and craftspeople from at least 2 different cultures avoid direct representation in their work yet still tell us something about the world and society in which they live and make their Art. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">This might include aspects of 1950s American Abstract Expressionist painting <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Expresionism">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Expresionism</a> , <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">traditional Islamic architectural patterning see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabesque">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabesque</a><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">or some forms of Australian indigenous Art see: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_art">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_art</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">(the wikipedia links are only there as very basic starting points.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07184668271132578082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8500268745480573221.post-82517289789091581162008-01-18T05:49:00.000-08:002008-01-18T05:51:29.498-08:00<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:180%;" ><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://lostworksheets.blogspot.com/">http://lostworksheets.blogspot.com/</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">More copies of Madrid info etc</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">(linked as </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://lostworksheets.blogspot.com/">COPIES OF LOST WORKSHEETS</a><span style="font-family:verdana;">)</span></span>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07184668271132578082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8500268745480573221.post-4911978641364881492008-01-18T05:45:00.000-08:002008-01-18T05:46:10.260-08:00<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Sybil Green";">Jonathon Ross ‘Japanorama’<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Sybil Green";">Art in Context task.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">You can watch the video again here: <a href="http://www.tv-links.cc/tv/Jonathon-Ross-Japanorama.htm">http://www.tv-links.cc/tv/Jonathon-Ross-Japanorama.htm</a> (episode 3) or type the artists names into You Tube for shorter clips or other videos with/about their work.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Over 3 sides of writing and imagery in your RWB you should consider the following questions (make notes during the video)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">What are some of the main themes/subjects/ideas/features of the J Art shown in the video?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">How does contemporary Japanese Art reflect Japanese society including modern technology, mass media, culture, recent history? Think about Japan’s industrial development following the second world war – America occupied Japan and influenced a great deal of what has happened there since.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">How does contemporary Japanese Art reflect Japanese Art of previous ages? Try to find examples by Hokusai, Hiroshige etc and compare the composition, themes, techniques and so on...</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The artists featured in the video include :<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Toast Girl<span style=""> </span>Keiichi Tanaami<span style=""> </span>Takashi Murakami<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Yoshimoto Nara<span style=""> </span>Junko Mizuno<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07184668271132578082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8500268745480573221.post-43673090442536432242008-01-18T05:44:00.001-08:002008-01-18T05:44:49.838-08:00<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">Research Workbook Tasks – Years 12 & 13 (including Madrid work)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Next book collection will be right after half term holiday to give you chance to finish all of the Madrid research – <b style="">Monday 25<sup>th</sup> Feb (Day 3)</b> which is a book day.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The basic task is the same for both Year 12s & Y13s:</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Before Madrid:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">3 sides for the Japanorama video (Describe the contemporary Japanese Art & it’s context – see the sheet!)</p> <p class="MsoNormal">7 sides of illustrated research into the lives, context and art of any 3 of the following list of artists whose work you will be seeing in Madrid (3 artists spread over the 7 sides, not 7 sides per artist!):</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="" lang="IT">Velazquez<span style=""> </span>Bosch <span style=""> </span>Goya<span style=""> </span>Murillo <span style=""> </span>Breughel<span style=""> </span>El Greco<span style=""> </span>Rubens<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="" lang="IT">Rembrandt<span style=""> </span>Durer<span style=""> </span>Picasso<span style=""> </span>Tintoretto<span style=""> </span>Dali<span style=""> </span>Tapies<span style=""> </span>Miro<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Prepare 20 sides for working on in Madrid – some might be textured, others might be simple washes. Remember that you need to be able to work over these BACKGROUNDS with pencil, pen & other media that you will take with you. Don’t make them too dark or heavy.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">During Madrid:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">You will choose a specific theme that will help you focus during the Madrid trip – remember you won’t just be working in the galleries. You are visiting the CITY OF MADRID. You must begin (and in some cases complete) at least 20 sides during the trip. A few bus tickets are OK, but it isn’t a scrap book. It is a Critical, Contextual & Visual Diary investigation!</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">Themes to choose from (choose one to focus your research on the WHOLE trip):</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style="">Light<span style=""> </span>Movement<span style=""> </span>Texture<span style=""> </span>Surfaces<span style=""> </span>Barriers<span style=""> </span>Power<span style=""> </span>Tension<span style=""> </span>Frames<o:p></o:p></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">After Madrid:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Finish off the pages – some can be left wild and energetic, but you should make some pages really sumptuous!</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Much of your CONTEXTUAL research might be added after you return (but check the galleries for information whilst you are actually there). </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">Plus (integrated within all of that) 3 sides (minimum) about the development of your own current project(s)<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Next book collection will be right after half term holiday to give you chance to finish all of the Madrid research – <b style="">Monday 25<sup>th</sup> Feb (Day 3)</b> which is a book day.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><o:p> </o:p></b></p>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07184668271132578082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8500268745480573221.post-28169010499171892162008-01-18T05:42:00.000-08:002008-01-18T05:43:40.073-08:00<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">The Art Expedition 2008 : <i style="">Madrid</i><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style="">All students must be at the Vueling check-in desk (Terminal B, Fiumicino) by 8.30 am on Thursday 7<sup>th</sup> Feb.<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t202" coordsize="21600,21600" spt="202" path="m,l,21600r21600,l21600,xe"> <v:stroke joinstyle="miter"> <v:path gradientshapeok="t" connecttype="rect"> </v:shapetype><v:shape id="_x0000_s1026" type="#_x0000_t202" style="'position:absolute;"> <v:textbox style="'mso-next-textbox:#_x0000_s1026'/"> </v:shape><v:shape id="_x0000_s1028" type="#_x0000_t202" style="'position:absolute;"> <v:textbox style="'mso-next-textbox:#_x0000_s1028'/"> </v:shape><v:shape id="_x0000_s1029" type="#_x0000_t202" style="'position:absolute;"> <v:textbox style="'mso-next-textbox:#_x0000_s1029'/"> </v:shape><v:shape id="_x0000_s1027" type="#_x0000_t202" style="'position:absolute;"> <v:textbox style="'mso-next-textbox:#_x0000_s1027'/"> </v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><span style="position: relative; z-index: 251656192; left: -4px; top: 4px; width: 688px; height: 987px;"> <table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <td height="0" width="0"><br /></td> <td width="2"><br /></td> <td width="338"><br /></td> <td width="2"><br /></td> <td width="344"><br /></td> <td width="2"><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="217"><br /></td> <td><br /></td> <td style="border: 0.75pt solid black; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; vertical-align: top; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" bgcolor="white" height="217" width="338"><!--[endif]--><!--[if !mso]--><span style="position: absolute; z-index: 251656192;"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td><!--[endif]--> <div shape="_x0000_s1026" style="padding: 4.35pt 7.95pt;" class="shape"> <p class="MsoNormal">Flight Details (Vueling from Fiumicino):</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">Roma (FCO) to Madrid (MAD) </span></b><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;"><br /> Thursday<span style=""> </span>07 Feb <span style=""> </span><br /> Depart: <span style=""> </span>10:15 <br /> Arrive: <span style=""> </span>12:35 <br /> Flight Number : <span style=""> </span>VY6033 <br /> Terminal: <span style=""> </span>B <br /> <br /> </span><b><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">Madrid (MAD) to Roma (FCO) </span></b><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;"><br /> Saturday 09 Feb<br /> Depart: <span style=""> </span>18:30 <br /> Arrive: <span style=""> </span>20:50 <br /> Flight Number: <span style=""> </span>VY6857 <br /> Terminal: <span style=""> </span>T4 </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <!--[if !mso]--></td> </tr> </tbody></table> </span><!--[endif]--><!--[if !mso & !vml]--> <!--[endif]--><!--[if !vml]--></td> <td><br /></td> <td style="border: 0.75pt solid black; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; vertical-align: top; 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color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><a href="http://www.room-matehotels.com/" target="_blank" title="http://www.room-matehotels.com/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">www.room-matehotels.com</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </div> <!--[if !mso]--></td> </tr> </tbody></table> </span><!--[endif]--><!--[if !mso & !vml]--> <!--[endif]--><!--[if !vml]--></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="1"><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="447"><br /></td> <td><br /></td> <td colspan="4" style="border: 0.75pt solid black; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; vertical-align: top; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" bgcolor="white" height="447" width="686"><!--[endif]--><!--[if !mso]--><span style="position: absolute; z-index: 251658240;"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td><!--[endif]--> <div shape="_x0000_s1028" style="padding: 4.35pt 7.95pt;" class="shape"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Important Information:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Luggage:</span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style=""> </span>Only one piece of small hand luggage is permitted ( a school rucksack is ideal). <b style="">No other luggage</b> may be brought (you will have to leave it at the airport!) Max size: </span><b style="">10kg</b> with the maximum dimensions of <b style="">55x40x20cm</b>. Remember that you will be carrying this with you on public transport and whilst <b style="">walking long distances </b>– hence no big suitcases! <b style="">Liquids (shampoo, gels etc) must be in containers of 100 ml or less.</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Insurance:</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style=""> </span></span>Standard school cover applies (so personal property such as ipods etc are not covered) Please contact Mr Pellegrino at school if you need further details of cover: <a href="mailto:rosario.pellegrino@stgeorge.school.it">rosario.pellegrino@stgeorge.school.it</a> You may wish to consult your own home policy to check cover for cameras etc.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Money:</span></b><span style=""> </span>Students have all transport and museum fees covered plus their breakfast. They will need to bring money for lunches and evening meals during the stay. There will be some free time during the trip, but all students will be expected to be back at the hotel by 11.00 pm – nightclubbing is not on our itinerary!</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Clothes/equipment: </span><i style="">This is the Art expedition!</i> </b>Students should come dressed to <b style="">walk</b> and <b style="">work (including outdoors!)</b> Comfortable shoes and a waterproof coat are essential. <b style="">Madrid can be very cold in February!</b> Students should bring their current RWB with at least 20 sides prepared for drawing & writing. A range of pens, pencils, pastels and other drawing materials are essential as is a camera, preferably digital. Phone cameras are not really adequate in quality. <b style="">No knives or scissors</b> can be brought. Each student will produce <b style="">20 sides or more</b> of visual and written research plus hundreds of photographs and possibly video footage during the trip and this will form the basis for the rest of their studio work in Art this year – so it has to be good!</p> </div> <!--[if !mso]--></td> </tr> </tbody></table> </span><!--[endif]--><!--[if !mso & !vml]--> <!--[endif]--><!--[if !vml]--></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="1"><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="317"><br /></td> <td colspan="4" style="border: 0.75pt solid black; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; vertical-align: top; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" bgcolor="white" height="317" width="686"><!--[endif]--><!--[if !mso]--><span style="position: absolute; z-index: 251659264;"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td><!--[endif]--> <div shape="_x0000_s1029" style="padding: 4.35pt 7.95pt;" class="shape"> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">Thursday 7<sup>th</sup> Feb<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Transfer from airport by Metro. Arrive Hotel between 1.30 pm & 2.00 pm </p> <p class="MsoNormal">3.00 pm<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Reina Sofia (including Picasso’s ‘Guernica’)<span style=""> </span>Booking Ref 23264</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">Friday 8<sup>th</sup> Feb <o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">10.15 am <span style=""> </span>Thyssen (Including Impressionists & Post-Impressionists)</p> <p class="MsoNormal">2.00 pm Prado <span style=""> </span>Murrillo Entrance Booking ref Q43544 (Bosch, Goya, Velazquez etc)</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">Saturday 9<sup>th</sup> Feb<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>to be confirmed (including drawing around P.za Mayor if weather permits)</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Once again – please check that all of your passports and other documents are up to date!<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> <!--[if !mso]--></td> </tr> </tbody></table> </span><!--[endif]--><!--[if !mso & !vml]--> <!--[endif]--><!--[if !vml]--></td> </tr> </tbody></table> </span><!--[endif]--><o:p> </o:p></p>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07184668271132578082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8500268745480573221.post-23479956225622984702007-06-26T03:59:00.001-07:002007-07-25T04:34:40.793-07:00<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 18pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:16;">Direct Observation and Descriptive Writing Guidelines<?xml:namespace prefix = o /><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Introduction<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 18pt"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Isola Farnese is a town built out of the place on which it stands; we are exploring the organic relationship it has with its surroundings in relation to the effect of a chosen theme on your 5 senses.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 18pt"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 18pt"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 18pt"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Light<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Look at the effects of light around you: direct light, filtered light (through foliage, shutters and flapping curtains), reflected light, absence of light (shadows and shade)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">What atmosphere is evoked by the play of light in different locations of the town (how would you describe this light - hazy, clear, dusty light, etc…) Does light dominate the place or not – what feel does it confer to it?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Consider contrasts, juxtapositions, discordant effects of light; silhouettes and stencil effects<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">How does the light falling upon the town affect the relationship between its surfaces and forms, or between its colours? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Can you describe the effect of ambient and colour temperature on your perceptions of light?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 18pt"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Negative Space<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Consider the ‘drama’ of the spaces left between buildings, people, objects, vegetation or geometrical patterns<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">How do gaps, voids and passage ways create the identity and atmosphere of Isola Farnese?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Do you notice any patterns / repetitions of negative spaces? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Consider the range of scale of negative spaces - from the gap between tiles to a valley between two land masses; consider unexpected details/effects<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Ask yourself how crucial these negative spaces are to the interplay of light and colour, textures and surface patterns (such a shaft of light channelled through broken brickwork, etc.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 18pt"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Colour<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Look at the effects of colour around you: what mood/atmosphere does colour evoke here? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Can you describe the colour range of the buildings -is there a prevalent style, are there accidental colour relationships? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Find examples of subtle tonal harmonies; consider juxtaposition, discordance, contrast, natural and man-made colour relationships.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Describe how residue and presence of colour reflect weathering and the passage of time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">How does colour relate to the surroundings of the town? Does the deliberate use of colour remind you of other places? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Consider the effects and the relationship between colour and light – how does the atmospheric light and shadow of this afternoon affect your perception of colour at Isola Farnese?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 18pt"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">3 Dimensional Form<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Describe the arrangement of surfaces, forms and angles around you: what patterns, rhythms and structures are apparent?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">What atmosphere do they evoke? Is the environment open, claustrophobic, tightly packed, threatening, welcoming, etc.?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Describe the movement of your eye and body as you move around these spaces and structures (easy, fluid, cumbersome, relaxing…)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Find examples of harmony or discordance between the arrangement of inter-related forms<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Consider, too, the presence or absence of human forms and how they might animate and inter-relate with the environment you are drawing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 18pt"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Texture and Surface Pattern<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Consider closely the interplay between natural and man-made patterns and textures of Isola Farnese: how are textures created by erosion, carving, scratching, weathering, agglomeration? Do you notice rhythm, repetition or other patterns?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Consider the scale of textures around you, from roof tiles and brickwork or cobblestones, to the grain of an ancient wooden door, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">How do the textures and patterns of the town evoke a diary of its history (for example, what is the visual effect of a shiny ice-cream advertisement on top of Roman or Etruscan architectural fragments, etc.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">What atmosphere do the patterns and textures of the place evoke? What do they FEEL like?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Descriptive vocabulary you might like to use (just for a start!):<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 18pt"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 18pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">fractured, tinted, rugged, weathered, robust, jagged, heavy, light-washed, eroded,<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 18pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">resistant, imposing, resilient, softened.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 18pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Invent surprising ways of describing the colours around you –‘lemonade light filtering through the trees’ or ‘the sky turned the colour of peptobizmol’<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: right" align="right"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">GM & EGB, 2007<o:p></o:p></span></p>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07184668271132578082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8500268745480573221.post-14873934013863255302007-06-26T03:53:00.000-07:002007-06-26T03:54:12.778-07:00<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Y13 Research Workbook Critical & Contextual Research Project<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">At least 16 sides of visually dynamic (and legible) research approaching one of the following questions:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Keep printouts and scrap book approach to a minimum. Illustrate, write, think, discuss. Find other critics (see links on weblog) and see what they have to say. This is the difference between a 4/5 and a 6/7 student! <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://saintgeorgesart.blogspot.com/">http://saintgeorgesart.blogspot.com/</a><span style=""> </span>(for clickable links to help you)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">1: Group Identities, Boundaries and Borders in Art</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><br /><br />How and why do groups of people (nationalities, religions, armies, tribes, gangs, football clubs, companies etc) display their group identities through art and visual imagery? How might groups of people be identified by ‘outsiders’? (think of how you chose to represent countries by food – what other symbols or clichés might work in the same way)<br /><br />Some Ideas:<br /><br />Look at propaganda paintings (American ‘Uncle Sam’, British ‘Your Country Needs You’, German, Russian, Italian & Japanese posters from the 2nd world war for example) Soviet Socialist Realism etc<br /><br />Masks, Uniforms and Costumes from various tribes, groups and societies (from the Masaai and the Spanish navy to the Iroquois and the Ku Klux Klan)<br /><br />Badges, Logos and Icons – from paintings of crucifixions in an Italian Church to the ‘Lupetto’ of AS. Roma Modern Graffiti on trains, walls etc.<br /><br />History paintings – battles, conquests and maps. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="IT">Look at Albrecht Altdorfer, Paolo Uccello , Simone Martini, Ambrogio Lorenzetti. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">The <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Bayeux</st1:City></st1:place> Tapestry etc.<br /><br />2: <b style="">When does Art become garment and garment become Art? How does fashion influence Art and vice versa?<br /></b><br />Ritual and performance. For example: masks of the Fang people of West Africa, Japanese Noh theatre masks, North American traditional headdresses, Australian Aboriginal body painting. The costumes and contraptions of modern artist Rebecca Horn. (etc etc etc)<br /><br />Where does the basic function (covering, protection, warmth etc) become less importance than the aesthetic appearance?<br /><br />Fashion as a visual statement of politics and ideologies: Flapper girls in the 20s, Punks in the 70s, Hippies in the 60s etc<br /><br />Influences in both directions – Pop Art, Op Art, Conceptual Art.<br /><br />How does fashion in post War <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Britain</st1:place></st1:country-region> (for example) reflect social and artistic change?<br /> <!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br /> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><br />3: <b style="">‘Talking about Art is like dancing about Architecture’ (Frank Zappa)</b><br /><br />Can one art form explain another?<br /><br />How have visual artists tried to depict performance and music in their work?<br /><br />Japanese prints of theatrical performance (Hiroshige, Hokusai etc)<br /><br />European painting and sculpture: Degas, Caravaggio, Fiorentino, Watteau, Italian futurist paintings (and music), Breughel, Lautrec, Max Beckmann, Picasso’s Circus performers etc.<br /><br />Masks and costumes that express the role of the wearer – from various African nations and tribes, theatrical masks from China, Japan, Greece etc.<br /><br />How has music been influenced by visual artists and vice versa?<br /><br />Many visual artistic movements/styles had a musical equivalent (Baroque, Impressionist, Modernist, Dadaist)<br /><br />Schoenberg (painter and composer), Matisse (La Danse, La Musique etc), Mondrian (Broadway Boogie Woogie)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><br /><br /><br />4: <b style="">Symbiosis: Humans and Nature in Art.<br /></b><br />Investigating art that suggests the strength of the relationship between humankind and the environment around it.<br /><br />Possible artists:<br /><br />Pre 20th Century European: Metamorphosis – plants and animals into humans - Bosch, Bernini, Arcimboldo etc<br /><br />Modern European: Andy Goldsworthy (abstract forms from natural materials), Anthony Gormley, Sophie Ryder (animal human creatures), Land Art – Robert Smithson. Picasso’s Centaurs etc.<br /><br />Non European: Ritualistic animal masks, fetishes and totems from a variety of cultures: North and South American, African etc. Hindu animal human hybrid gods etc.<br /><br />What do these metamorphic or hybrid beings suggest about human origins, relationships with nature and each other?<br /><br />Romantic Art – the idea of humans at the mercy of the immense power of nature Caspar David Freidrich, JWM Turner, Albert Bierstadt etc<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><br />5: <b style="">How has the image of women (as a subject) in painting changed through the 20th century? <o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Liberation? Emancipation? Political change including the vast increase in the number of women artists. Feminism. Look at Picasso, Klimt, Modigliani, Giacometti, Warhol, Gwen John, Frida Khalo, Dali, Freud, Jenny Saville, Paula Modersohn-Becker (amongst others!) Read Germaine Greer on the subject for a feminist perspective "The Obstacle Race: The fortunes of women painters and their work", (book in the library)<br /><br /><br />6: <b style="">The changing roles of the human figure in Art in the 19th & 20th centuries – from portraiture to symbolic presence. </b><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Cezanne (figure as motif rather than specific portrait) through Expressionism/Cubism’s distortions and simplifications, then body art and performance of 60s & 70s. Move on into the recent work of artists like Gormley in which the body is represented as a volume in space, a symbol or a vessel.<br /><br /><br /><br />7: <b style="">The changing impact of Art when removed from its intended location.</b> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Comparing the potentially diminished impact of religious art when transplanted from church/temple to gallery/museum and graffiti when taken from walls, trains, subways to the ‘safe’ middleclass gallery environment. Giotto, Michelangelo, Haring, Basquiat, <a href="http://www.grandcentralartcenter.com/gcacPages/Artists/KScharf.html">Kenny Scharf</a> etc.<br /><br /><b style=""><br />8: The continuing presence of the painted portrait in the age of photography.</b> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">What can painted portraiture offer to the artist/viewer that photography can not? How has photography freed the painter from the need to reproduce only the ‘straight forward’ likeness of the sitter? How has photography fed the painters’ imaginations and furthered the development of painting? Bacon, Nash, Hockney, Degas, Sickert, Jenny Saville, Richard Billingham etc. Read some Susan Sontag on this subject Review of her book ‘On Photography’ with a few quotes: <a href="http://www.photo.net/books/on-photography">http://www.photo.net/books/on-photography</a> or this <a href="http://www.susansontag.com/onphotographyexcrpt.htm">Sontag</a><br /><br />.<br /><br /> <!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br /> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07184668271132578082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8500268745480573221.post-77271100024179949442007-06-26T02:20:00.000-07:002007-06-26T03:51:55.235-07:00Y12 - Y13 (for Alejandra!)<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">End of Y12 & Summer task –<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">including choosing a theme for Year 13<o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">The work that you do over the next months will define your outcome in IB Art. There will be a book check on Friday June 8<sup>th</sup> so that I can give you suggestions/ ideas for sources & artists. The final deadline is after the Summer holidays (see list in this booklet of all work that must be completed by then).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p>Obviously it is important to make sure that all Y12 studio and RWB work is completed to the best of your ability before the start of next year (if you have not already done so) Most of your time in IB Art has already gone by now – there is absolutely no catching up time in Y13 (less than 2 terms left when we come back to school!) See the sheet on improving your RWBs for further information about how to improve your grade.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p>Your next major RWB tasks (40 plus sides with final check in September) are:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Research and documentation for your 2 <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Venice</st1:place></st1:City> Studio Projects (8 sides +)<o:p></o:p></span></b></li></ul> <ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Research and development of personal theme for Summer/Y13 (22 sides +)<o:p></o:p></span></b></li></ul> <ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">Y12/13 Research Workbook Critical & Contextual Research Project (10 sides +)<o:p></o:p></span></b></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">The research and documentation of the <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Venice</st1:place></st1:City> projects is mostly explained in the previous handout sheets. Make sure that you have adequate <b style="">experiments, studies, plans, notes, additional artist research (not just dead Venetians), evaluations </b>etc for both projects<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Choosing your theme: DON’T CONFUSE A MEDIUM OR TECHNIQUE WITH A ‘THEME’. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">‘Fashion’ or ‘Painting’ are mediums or techniques not themes!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Themes explored by recent Y13 IB Art students at SGBIS have included: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">‘The Passage of Time’ <span style=""> </span>‘Women as Heroes’ <span style=""> </span>‘Chinese History’ <span style=""> </span>‘Ideas of Perfection’<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">‘Exploitation/Consumerism’<span style=""> </span>‘Cities’<span style=""> </span>‘Fear & Phobias’<span style=""> </span>‘Memory’<span style=""> </span>‘Art & Music’<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">‘Theatre & Performance’<span style=""> </span>‘Twins’<span style=""> </span>‘The Power of Books’<span style=""> </span>‘The Urban Environment’<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">‘Concepts of Nationality’<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>‘Links Between Fine Art & Fashion’<span style=""> </span>‘Corruption & Authority’<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Not all of these students started out with such specific themes – many of these themes evolved from the students’ interests and research. Don’t start thinking ‘Right I’m going to do </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">‘Pain’ so I’ll </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">make a sculpture of a screaming man’ or whatever. Let the studio work evolve properly – the results will be stronger, more original and more exciting.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">The sooner you start exploring and researching possible themes the sooner I can give you ideas and artists to feed your work. Your research needs to be varied and powerfully visual. You will not get another chance like this coming summer to produce drawings, paintings, photographs and other experimentation to feed your Y13 work. Imagine how it is going to feel sitting round the ‘BIG TABLE’ with the rest of the class in September if your research isn’t the best that you could do! <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://web1.ibo.org.uk/gallery/">http://web1.ibo.org.uk/gallery/</a> Is the IB Art Gallery – you <b style="">should begin everything by browsing this site.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">You must get out and visit at least 2 exhibitions this summer. Don’t just grab a couple of well known artists off the internet! In your critical writing/studies/sketches find links between what you see/discover and your own evolving ideas/theme – for example: what made you choose to examine a particular painting?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Produce <b style=""><u>tons</u></b> of visual research for your theme: your own photographs, experiments, drawings, paintings (from direct observation as well as from secondary sources) Don’t spend much time planning final pieces – this is the crucial gathering and inspiration phase. Don’t just use pencil. Get yourself some paints, pastels, ink, charcoal etc <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07184668271132578082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8500268745480573221.post-43176790984199083922007-06-26T02:16:00.001-07:002007-06-26T02:16:54.960-07:00For all of you dopey Artists who lose your worksheets....Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07184668271132578082noreply@blogger.com0