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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

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

Art Exhibition 2008

Mr. Sands — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:46:17 +0000

Banksy

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

Banksy

Alternative Portrait Project

Pupil Example: James 2007

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.

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

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.

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

Francis Bacon

Mr. Sands — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:48:33 +0000

Francis Bacon‘s work feature bleak, distorted, violent and even nightmarish portraits of friends, contemporaries, religous or historical figures. He has explored this theme through Paint, Collage, Drawing, Printing and Mixed Media.

Alternative Portrait Project

Pupil Example: Anthony 2009

Gary Hume

Mr. Sands — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:37:28 +0000

Gary Hume’s work stripped the portrait into a minimal form and compartmentalizes it into line, shape and colour. Working from a variety of secondary images realised in household and gloss paint Hume creates work that is as smooth and polished as some of the celebrities that inspire them.

BTEC Level 3: Psycho Portraiture

Learner Example: Abbie 2011

Georgia O’Keeffe

Miss. OConnor — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:57:08 +0000

Georgia O’Keeffe created a series of sensual and abstract forms that were heavily influenced by both Natural and Feminist Forms.

Natural Forms Project

Pupil Example: Chrissy 2009

Pupil Example: Elica 2009

Gerhard Richter

Mr. Sands — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:49:28 +0000

Gerhard Richter works in wide range of media and has explored a diverse range of techniques and styles, influenced by landscape, portraiture, the figure, nature, animals to family poses. His most widely known painting technique is the blurred or dragged composition using either brilliant, subdued or monochrome palette.

In the city project

Lomography Photograph: Gregory 2009

Pupil Example: Klinsman 2008

Gilbert and George

Mr. Sands — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:33:36 +0000

Gilbert and George are a creative pairing who have worked together for over 40 years and regard themselves as living sculptures. They have disassociated their art from their everyday lives, insisting that everything they do is art. Their latter work involves large scale gridded photographic work often with provokotive language or slang and imagery from sections of society.

Alternative Portrait Project

Pupil Example: Zarmena 2010

Gustav Klimt

Mr. Sands — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:22:48 +0000

Gustav Klimt created paintings, murals and sketches that are full of stimulating interesting symbols, shapes and situations such as the famous “The Kiss‘.

Fabric Construction Project

Pupil Example: Egle 2005

Jasper Johns

Mr. Oddie — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:41:33 +0000

We have designed a curriculum that promotes Creativity, Experimentation, Exploration, Risk taking and Learning from mistakes.

Abstract Expressionism and Jasper Johns Letter and Numbers series are excellent examples of Creativity, Experimentation and Exploration and are an ideal movement /artist for our pupils to research and respond to.

Ks3 Colour Project

Pupil Example: Ernie 2009

Jean Dubuffet

Mr. Sands — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:11:14 +0000

Jean Dubuffet investigated the portrait in paint, mixed media, sculpture and printing creating textured and simplistic imagery but he is best known for the development of ‘Art Brut‘ (Raw or Outsider Art).

Alternative Portrait Project

Pupil Example: Ellie 2008

Jenny Saville

Mr. Sands — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:40:11 +0000

Jenny Saville is a YBA whose work pays tribute to the painterly mark making styles of Francis Bacon and Lucien Freud. Saville explores themes of disfigurement, distortion, abstraction and deformity centre largely on the female figure especially her own figure/portrait. Her work has inspired our BTEC Level 3 project entitled ‘Surfaces’.

BTEC Level 3 Project: Surfaces

Learner Example: Holly 2010

Jim Dine

Mr. Sands — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:26:12 +0000

Jim Dine is a stalwart of the ‘pop art’ aesthetic by incorporating everyday readymade objects in his work. For the robe series Dine investigated the robe through a wide variety of fine art techniques and media.

Alternative Portrait Project

Pupil Example: Nyasha 2010

Julian Opie

Mr. Sands — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:12:37 +0000

Julian Opie investigates the figure, portraiture and landscape. He produced highly stylised and minimal pictures using mixed media (including video and ICT). In his portraiture the human face is reduced to a series of black outlines with flat areas of colour.

Alternative Portrait Project

Pupil Example: Robyn 2007

Pupil Example: Billie-Leigh 2009

Flash Animation: Tom 2008

Karl Blossfeldt

Mr. Sands — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:43:30 +0000

Karl Blossfeldt was a sculptor and photographer who is famous for his photographs of natural forms. These closely documented monochrome photographs create minimalist compositions that focus an intense scrutiny on the natural forms. Karl Blossfeldt is one of our featured artists in our Level 2 Natural Forms Project and our learners have responded to Blossfeldt’s work through Photography, Textiles, Printing and Painting.

KS4 Level 2 Natural Forms Project

Learner Example: Elizabeth 2011