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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

Level 2 BTEC Brief: Under the Microscope

Mr. Sands — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:27:54 +0000

This is your Level 2 BTEC Art Textiles brief entitled Under the Microscope. You can assess your progress whilst exploring and experimenting with a variety of textile techniques and responding to the work of Karen Kamenetzky.

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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

Student Blog: Surfaces and Nava Lubelski

Mr. Sands — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:17:59 +0000

This entry was written by Abbey who is currently studying Art and Design and Textiles in year 13

The idea of using stains as a theme for the surfaces project came accidentally when I lifted up my cup to see a ring stain left on a piece of cloth. I started to create and develop stains investigating how they reacted with different materials and surfaces e.g. paper, large wooded areas and fabric.

To extend the stains experiments further I introduced photographic chemicals and the Photogram/Raygram process inspired by Man Ray introducing a series of drips and exploring the positive and negative space.

I was very pleased with how the ring stains on the photogram turned out and decided to experiment with these pictures using ICT, scanning them onto photoshop and manipulating the colours.

From there I moved into 3D and relief casting as I wanted to explore the outcome of lifting the stains looking at the height and depth while using the same colour scheme from my ICT experiments.

Recently I have been experimenting with ‘accidental’ stains e.g where a cup of tea was thrown at a white dress, whilst maintaining the colour scheme from previous works. I’ve stitched around the stains to enhance them which is influenced by Nava Lubelski who stitches around stains on table cloths, canvas, paper and sheets to expose the beautiful, colourful abstract movement of the stain.

Nava Lubelski

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.

Pablo Picasso

Mr. Sands — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:16:47 +0000

Pablo Picasso is one of the most famous and prolific artists of the 20th Century. Picasso produced work in a wide variety of medium such as Painting, Print Making, Sculpture, Ceramics and Photography, navigating themes/movemnets including the Blue and Rose period, Symbolism, African, Cubism, Neo-Classicism, Surrealism and Abstraction.

Alternative Portrait Project:

Pupil Example: Alicia 2006

Pupil Example: Lauren 2006

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

Henry Moore

Mr. Sands — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:15:27 +0000

Henry Moore’s work has been investigated through process, scale and the relationship with both urban and natural landscapes. Moore’s works contain abstract and organic shapes and peirced forms largely centred on the of the human figure with themes such as Mother and Child and King and Queen and the Reclining pose.

Summer School Perry Green Visit

Pupil Examples: Sonika and Liz 2009

Paul Klee

Mr. Sands — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:18:38 +0000

Paul Klee‘s work is full of simplistic shapes and childlike imagery that are influenced by expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. Klee taught at the famous German Bauhaus school of art and architecture along with fellow artist Wassily Kandinsky.

Textiles project

Pupil Example: Kelly 2007

Alternative Portrait Project

Pupil Example: Bernard 2006

Karen Kamenetzky – ‘Under the Microscope’

Miss. OConnor — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:33:28 +0000

Fiber Artist Karen Kamenetzky creates textile wall hangings inspired by microscopic cell imagery. Colour is an important part of Kamentzky’s work and she dyes all her own fabrics. You can see the process of how she creates some of her pieces and the thinking behind the work on her blog.

Cellscape I

Her work inspires the Year 9/10 BTEC Textile Project ‘Under the Microscope’

Pupil example: Rebecca 2008

Pupil example: Eleanor 2008

Pupil example: Emily 2008

Pupil example: Harley 2008

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

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

Tony Cragg

Mr. Sands — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:46:47 +0000

Tony Cragg‘s early works are made from found, discarded construction or household materials. These fragmented are often arranged by colour and shape or arranged to create an installation of human or abstract forms. Tony Cragg is one of our lead artists in the Year 7 colour Project.

Colour Project

Pupil Example: 3D Colour Wheel

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.