» Artists and Designers

Vladimir Tatlin

Mr. Sands — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:08:05 +0000

Vladimir Tatlin‘s Tower formed the blueprint for avant -guarde architectural design for the twentieth century.

We have used the Russian Constructivist aesthetic using a set of architectural forms and introducing Surface, Pattern and Graphical techniques to create our own versions.

In the City Project – Sculptural Workshop

Students Example: Scott 2008

Adam Neate

Mr. Sands — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:47:08 +0000

Adam Neate is a street artist who has produced thousands of portraits on old, found or discarded cardboard which he returns back to the street as part an ongoing open exhibition for people to encounter, pick up and collect.

Neate use of found materials echos early Abstract Expressionists and Neo Dadists and his portraiture styles range from Abstraction, Constructivism to Vorticism.

Alternative Portrait Project

Pupil Example: Sharron 2006

Alex Ross

Mr. Sands — Mon, 17 May 2010 19:42:13 +0000

Alex Ross is comic book designer, painter and illustrator who is famed for his photorealist creations that render his superhuman characters in fine detail.

Passion and Obsession

Student Example: Brenton 2010

Analysing Artists and Designers

Mr. Sands — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:14:28 +0000

This document will assist you to analyse and evaluate the work of artists and designers.

Andy Warhol

Mr. Sands — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:18:04 +0000

Having started as a commercial artist Andy Warhol looked at ‘popular culture‘ for his inspiration. Warhol has explored this topic through Painting, Drawing, Print, Installation, Sculpture, Photography, Film, Audio and Music. His most iconic works are his screenprinted portraits of celebrities and his portrayal of popular everyday food packaging and logos.

Food and Drink Project

Pupil Example: Zarmena 2009

Alternative Portrait Project

Pupil Example: Wayne 2008

Banksy

Mr. Sands — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:16:07 +0000

Banksy

Alternative Portrait Project

Pupil Example: James 2007

Blek Le Rat

Mr. Sands — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:02:01 +0000

Blek Le Rat began stenciling in Paris in the early 1980′s and has influenced advertising, street art and graphical art and design. His works range from small stencils to full size figure paste ups, influenced by classical/historical icons to political commentary on war. His most famous protégé is Banksy who has developed the Blek Le Rat blueprint to worldwide fame.

More images are available from Departmentart Flickr page .

Alternative Protrait Project

Pupil Example: Blaine 2009

Pupil Example: Harrison 2009

Pupil Example: Liam 2009

The Boyle Family

Mr. Sands — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 23:30:32 +0000

In the 1960′s the Boyle Family started a life long project to document surfaces of the planet. This ‘drawing through materials’ aesthetic has been inspired by earth, air, fire and water; animals, vegetables, minerals; insects, reptiles, water creatures; human beings and societies; physical elements and fluids from the human body and have been documented through performances, data collection, projections, sculpture and photography.

We look at the Boyle Family as part of our Level 3 ‘Surfaces‘ project and have included a documentary link featuring the family discussing their work.

Surfaces Project

KS5 Examplar: Gereth 2010

More images are available from Departmentart Flickr page .

C215

Mr. Sands — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:54:58 +0000

Chistian Guémy’s (otherwise known as C215) art has been influenced by Stencil pioneers such as Blek Le Rat, though his Classical remastering of Caravaggio or religious icongraphy and Banksy through his exploration of animals. However it’s C215‘s celebration and social anthropologic commentary of forgotten souls, street/homeless that celebrate global and cultural diversity that Christian Guémy is most celebrated for. These portraits have reenergised the stencil art scene introducing a new complexity of stencil and through the sighting of this work globally and narrative/questions raised.

C215 or Chistian Guémy is one of our featured artist in our 2011 GCSE Art/Textiles exam brief entitled ‘People and Places’ and we have interpreted C215‘s visual language through a combination of drawing, serigraphy and appliqué.

Project: People and Places Exam 2011
Textile C215 Example: Yan 2011

More images are available from Departmentart Flickr page .

Caroline Kirton – Stitched Snapshots

Miss. OConnor — Thu, 20 May 2010 21:04:48 +0000

Caroline Kirton creates applique and machine embroiderd snapshots of her teenage daughters and friends. Her work looks at teenage life from the point of view of an adult or parent. Kirton states “My work is also concerned with the issues of control and how young people often feel they have no real control over their lives because of parental and official boundaries”.

Work, Rest and Play: Rest

Pupil Example: Eleanor 2010

Chuck Close

Mr. Sands — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:11:24 +0000

Chuck Close is a photorealist painter who produces large-scale portraits. His latter works are produced using a cell/grid system and abstracting each cell/grid to produce the final portrait.

Claes Oldenburg

Mr. Sands — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:02:25 +0000

Examples of Food and Drink inspired sculptures by Claes Oldenburg.

Food and Drink Project

Pupil Example: Nora 2006

Pupil Example: Deirdre 2008

Pupil Example: Liam 2009

Pupil Example: Hayley 2009

Colin Chillag

Mr. Sands — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:04:19 +0000

Colin Chillag is a painter who produces photo realist portraits developed from a minimal linear drawing. These portraits are realised through unbelievable brushwork. However these portraits also show the scar of this artistic toil with the portraits co-existing with the paint palette that created them. To deface these portraits during their creation is a wonderfully brutal act: promoting dialogue on the psyche of the artist, their environment and the stream of consciousness of the artist.

Level 3 Psycho Portraiture Project

Learner Example Jodie 2012

Consumerism in Art

Mr. Sands — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:21:26 +0000

Since the Pop Art movement consumerism and branded products have been investigated and influenced the work of artists. Company’s such as Absolut and Becks have recruited popular artists to promote and temporary rebrand their products with their own brand of art to increase sales.

Coca Cola Examples:

More images are available from Departmentart Flickr page .

Food and Drink Project

Pupil Example: Sifa 2007

Artist Examplars: Pepsi, Absolut, Del Monte, Ballantine Ale, Heinz, Spam and Brillo

D*Face

Mr. Sands — Mon, 17 May 2010 20:19:49 +0000

D*Face is a street artist who has expanded his trademark D*Dog character into Sculpture, Print, Graphical, Poster and Aerosol compositions. His work is heavily influenced by New York Street Art, Pop Art and Consumerism which include humour and social commentary.

Alternative Portrait Project

Pupil Example: Ahmad 2010

More images are available from Departmentart Flickr page .
Pupil Example: Julie 2009

Pupil Example: Brian 2006

Dave White

Mr. Sands — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:12:53 +0000

Dave White has been referred to as the UK’s answer to Andy Warhol and with modernist themes; such as star wars, and super heroes and villains to Roy Lichtenstein inspired vintage military painting, delicious food and drink paintings that would make Claes Oldenburg hungry and commissions for Nike and Coca Cola its easy to see why? Dave White‘s work oozes from the canvas, part action painting, part explosion, part abstract expressionism minus the abstraction. He is creativity cataloguing childhood dreams and young adolescent desires through a retro yet contemporary visual language.

David Hepher

Mr. Sands — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:54:25 +0000

David Hepher is a landscape artist who explores ideas about poverty and decline within an urban setting. See here to view more work.

Eduardo Paolozzi

Mr. Sands — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:52:17 +0000

Eduardo Paolozzi was a leading figure in the early British Pop Art movement and produced several collages that established the future POP blueprint. His latter works still maintain the Pop collage aesthetic but take influences of cubism in the geometric patterned backgrounds and futurism with the use of Industrial and Mechanical forms.

Edvard Munch

Mr. Sands — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:07:01 +0000

Edvard Munch works throughout his career including his iconic work entitled ‘The Scream‘ have been influenced by myth, anxiety and human emotion. You can view a BBC documentary about this iconic work using these links: 1 2 3 4 5

Alternative Portrait Project

Pupil Example: Larry 2007

Live Art Performance: Derek 2004

Faile

Mr. Sands — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:34:47 +0000

Faile is a international art collective consisting of Patrick McNeil, Patrick Miller and Aiko Nakagawa. Their work ranges from printmaking, stenciling and painting and is heavily influenced by popular culture and the works of Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.

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