ForceThis is your GCSE Art Exam

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There are many different meanings of the word FORCE and how it can be interpreted in Art.

The meaning of Force

Today we will: THINK about what the different meanings of the word

LOOK at many starting points for this question

DISCOVER artists and designers who could inspire uson this topic

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EXAM = 40%

Everybody knows... the four AOs

For the exam you have to show evidence of: ALL 4 of the AOs (Assessment Objectives)

AO1: Looking at other artists = 10%AO2: Experimenting with media = 10%AO3: Recording your ideas = 10%AO4: Making a final piece = 10%

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Thursday 2nd May and Friday 3rd May

Where to begin?

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force of nature

movement

destruction

politics

resistance

distort

persuade

compelwar

Force

strength

stresspeer pressure

explode

powerchang

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impact

emotion

gravitymomentum

energy

influence

damage

Words that link with Force …

There are 6 main starting points.

PEOPLEPLACESNATURAL WORLDOBJECTSACTIVITIESIMAGINATION

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...

PEOPLE

Francis Bacon-Explores the “Human Condition” -Graphic and emotionally raw style of painting.

Linked words: distort, change

Popular and influential street artist and graphic designer Fairey’s work has had a brute cultural impact on contemporary society. His work combines elements of graffiti and advertising and is often politically-charged.

Shepard FaireyLinked words: war, politics, impact, influence

Picasso created this piece in response to the bombing of Guernica, a country village in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. Guernica shows the tragedies of war and it’s effect on innocent people.

The painting helped bring the world’s attention to the Spanish Civil War and was displayed around the world as a symbol of peace.

‘Guernice’ 1937

Pablo Picasso Linked words: war, damage, impact, destruction, politics, influence

Tom LeaLinked words: war, destruction, explode, power, stress

Thomas Calloway "Tom" Lea III was a muralist, illustrator, artist, war correspondent, novelist and historian. The bulk of his art and literary works were about Texas, north-central Mexico and his World War II experience in the South Pacific and Asia.

Karoline Hjorth

From the Series: ‘In Your Face’

Linked words: emotion

Kruger is a conceptual artist who uses juxtaposing images and aggressive text. She explores the themes of consumerism, identity and feminism. Her style is influenced by mainstream advertising.

Barbara Kruger Linked words: impact, influence, peer pressure

Andy Warhol

Fame infatuated Warhol. His art reflects an ongoing fascination with Hollywood and celebrity culture. In the 1960s, Warhol achieved his own celebrity status.

Linked words: influence

PLACES

Feng Dakang is a contemporary Chinese artist who is obsessed with architecture, decay and destruction.

Dakang paints man-made structures, with many details of their beauty, in a state of semi-decay or destruction.

In China many beautiful buildings are being destroyed at a fast pace in the name of development and progress.

Dakang aims to record this tragedy in his paintings, in an effort to show the marvel of past human construction.

Feng Dakang

Linked words: damage, destruction, change

Anselm KieferKiefer is a German sculptor and painter who explores the themes of depression and the effects of Nazi rule. He often incorporates natural materials in his work such as straw, ash, clay and lead.

Linked words: war, compel, resistance, stress

Walter Martin & Paloma MuñozSnow globes are designed to be turned upside down. Martin and Muñoz, though, really turned them upside down. Where traditional snow globes are intended to evoke a pleasant memory, the snow globes of Martin and Muñoz seem to portend an anxious future event.

These orbs seem to anticipate terrible events that might happen, or might be happening right now to somebody else.Where traditional snow globes depict cheerful scenes, Martin and Muñoz give us eerie scenes, scenes rife with anxiety and uncertainty, scenes that reside in the darker parts of the human psyche.

Linked words: distort, stress, emotion, forces of nature

Barnes draws the energy within a city, things being built, speeding cars, people. She uses trial and error to make several sketches. The drawing have raw, unfinished quality to them.

Jeanette BarnesLinked words: movement, energy

Rotella was an Italian artist and poet, best known for his works of decollage and psychogeographics, made from torn advertising posters

Mimmo RotellaLinked words: destruction, change

NATURAL WORLD

Hiroshige was a Japanese painter and printmaker who was known especially for his landscape prints. He often explores the force of nature in his Art.

Ando Hiroshige Linked words: force of nature, power, energy

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Snow Storm – Steam- Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth

Linked words: force of nature, energy, power

Turner was a British Romantic landscape painter, water colourist and printmaker

Simon Heijdens

Simon Heijdens work investigates the relationship between nature and new technologies. The branches of these trees blow in response to the wind.

Linked words: force of nature, movement,

Doris Salcedo

Doris Salcedo is a Colombian born Sculptor who addresses the question of forgetting and memory in her installation artwork.

Linked words: force of nature, damage, distruction

Roni Horn

Horn's first photographic installation, You Are The Weather (1994-1996), a photographic cycle featuring 100 close-up shots of the same woman, Margret (aged 15) in a variety of Icelandic geothermal pools, deals with the enigma of identity captured through a series of facial expressions dictated by imperceptible weather changes.

You are the Weather (1994-1996)

Linked words: force of nature, change

David Hockney

(images from Woldgate Woods)

Linked words: force of nature, change

Hockney is a British painter, draughtsman, printmaker, photographer and designer. Some of his most recent work uses film, painting and the ipad to create Art work which explores the changes seasons have on the landscape.

Sam Taylor-Wood

This time-lapse film of peaches ripening and then rotting draws upon the conventions of still life painting, as its title suggests.

“Still Life” (2001)

Linked words: force of nature, change

OBJECTS

‘No Escape’ -images of flood scenes had been transfer printed onto children's dresses.

Goldsmith’s work uses textile materials and processes as a metaphor for imagining how psychological states, emotions and memories associated with human fragility and loss can be made visible in cloth.

Shelly Goldsmith Linked words: force of nature, impact, destruction

Woodrow is an English sculptor. In 1980 he first devised his characteristic method of making sculpture, forming a new object or objects from the skin of found domestic appliances.

Woodrow worked in such a way as to leave evident the original identities of the constituent items as well as the mode of transformation.

Bill WoodrowLinked words: change

Alexander McQueen

Linked words: strength, impact

Alexander McQueen was a British fashion designer and couturier best known for his in-depth knowledge of British tailoring.

He often juxtaposes strength with fragility in his collection as well as the emotional power and raw energy of his provocative fashion shows

Clare Twomey

Clare Twomey's Specimen, 2009

Linked words: damage, impact

Cornelia Parker

Cornelia Parker creates large-scale installations to transform common objects and investigate the nature of matter.

Linked words: strength, change

Jean Tiguley is a Swiss painter and sculptor well known for his kinetic art (moving sculptures). Tinguely's art is in response to the overproduction of material goods in advanced industrial society.

Jean TinguleyLinked words: movement, influence

ACTIVITIES

Yukinori Yanagi's work explores themes relating to his position as a Japanese artist living and working in an international context, as well as broader issues about identity within social or national constructs.

Yukinori Yanagi Linked words: politics, impact, influence

The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer - (Bronze) cast in 1922

"Three Studies of A Dancer," by Edgar Degas,

Edgar DegasLinked words: strength, movement

“I’ve spent the last 25 years of my photographic career investigating movement and its expressive potential. My inspiration has always been photography’s ability to stop time and reveal what the naked eye cannot see. My interest in photography is not to capture an image I see or even have in my mind, but to explore the potential of moments

Lois Greenfield

http://www.loisgreenfield.com/galleries/index.html

Linked words: strength, movement

Eadweard MuybridgeLinked words: movement

Eadweard Muybridge was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion and in motion –picture projection.

Sam Taylor Wood

Linked words: movement, gravity

Brice MardenLinked words: movement, energy

Jackson Pollock

Pollock was an American painter, the chief pioneer of Abstract Expressionism.

He created enormous drip paintings. He painted in a tool shed where he could lay his canvas on the floor, and drip and splatter paint across it without worrying about ruining the walls or floor.

Rather than paint a landscape or a portrait, Pollock wanted to paint action. When you look at one of his drip paintings, your eye wanders across the entire canvas in constant motion.

Linked words: movement, energy

Wassily KandinskyKandinsky used colour in a highly theoretical way associating tone with timbre (the sound's character), hue with pitch, and saturation with the volume of sound. He even claimed that when he saw colour he heard music.

Linked words: movement, energy

Roy Lichtenstein

Beginning in 1962 Lichtenstein borrowed images of explosions from popular war comics for use in his paintings. The subject embodies the revolutionary nature of Pop Art and suggests the very real threat of annihilation by nuclear explosion that was prevalent at that time (the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred in 1962). But Lichtenstein was also interested in the way dynamic events like explosions were depicted in the stylised format of comic book illustration.

Linked words: explode, energy, war, influence

IMAGINATION

Cindy Sherman

Sherman’s photographs are portraits of herself in various scenarios that parody stereotypes of women. A panoply of characters and settings are drawn from sources of popular culture, old movies, television soaps and pulp fiction.

Linked words: emotion, change

Gregory CrewdsonLinked words: distort

Gregory Crewdson is an American photographer who is best known for elaborately staged scenes of American homes and neighborhoods

Jessica Tremp

'When I was little I used to dream about being a dancer or that I could fly and that I would learn to speak the language of the animals in the forest or that of the most dramatic actor. With the click of a finger I’ve found a way to make these things come true'

Linked words: distort, change

Rene Magritte was part of the Surrealist art movement.

Rene MagritteLinked words: distort, change