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Level 3 BTEC Art & Design Brief: In the city

Mr. Sands — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:48:43 +0000

This is your Yr 12 BTEC Art and Design Brief entitled ‘In the City’. You can assess your progress whilst exploring and experimenting with a variety of recording techniques e.g. mark making, collage and analog/digital photography.

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Yr 9 BTEC Brief: Alternative Portrait

Mr. Sands — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:38:38 +0000

This is your Yr 10 Art and Design brief entitled Alternative Portrait. You can assess your progress whilst exploring and experimenting with Drawing, Painting and 3D Manipulation techniques whilst researching and responding to several artists of your choosing. Remember to check out our video tutorials (Video 1) (Video 2) (Video 3) to help you throughout this project!

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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

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Keith Haring

Mr. Sands — Mon, 17 May 2010 15:30:46 +0000

Keith Haring‘s work is heavy influenced by graffiti and pop art. He combined these two styles to create simplistic and colourful icon based artworks spanning several mediums.

Alternative Portrait Project

Pupil Example: Josh 2010

Alternative Portrait Project

Pupil Example: Rita 2007

Pupil Example: Mitchell 2008

Pupil Example: Dot 2005

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Exam Showcase: Work, Rest and Play.

Mr. Sands — Mon, 10 May 2010 20:27:28 +0000

Here are some Art and Design and Art Textiles examples from our GCSE examinations on the theme of ‘Work, Rest and Play’. Enjoy!

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Young BRITS at Art

Mr. Sands — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:49:42 +0000

Young BRITS at Art is a national art award which is funded by the Equality and Human Rights Commission and delivered via artist led workshops throughout the UK. Our learners were asked to produce creative outcomes that explore their beliefs, opinions and judgments to the theme: “What would the world look like if we lived without prejudice?”

The right to your sexuality

Pupil Example: Rachel 2010

Pupil Example: Liz 2010

The right to equal access for those with a disability

Pupil Example: Dean 2010

Pupil Example: Jodie 2010

The right to freedom of speech

Pupil Example: Daniella 2010

The right to an education

Pupil Example: Sophie 2010

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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

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Piet Mondrian

Mr. Sands — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:36:53 +0000

Piet Mondrian is widely known for his numerous gridded compositions using the primary colours Red, Yellow and Blue. Mondrian‘s career was consumed with the pursuit of mathematical and artistic compositional combinations to acheive an aesthetic nirvana. Resulting in one of his final compositions the Jazz inpsired Broadway Boogie-Woogie.

Alternative Portrait Project

Pupil Example: Regan 2010

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Tinhead

Mr. Sands — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:53:05 +0000

Tinhead otherwise known as Christopher Wright is a UK based experimental Illustrator and mixed media artist. His work consists of lo-tech illustrations and mixed media collage/compositions that pay homage to the early Pop Art aesthetic of early Richard Hamilton and Peter Blake et al. Tinhead’s work features on The Foals debut album ‘Antidotes’.

Alternative Portrait Project

Pupil Example: Liz 2010

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Mark Kennedy

Mr. Sands — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:47:58 +0000

Mark Kennedy is a mosaic artist who has taken a 4000 year old medium and reinvented it for the 21st century. Where once deities and gods were the muse Mark Kennedy focuses on Musicians, Artists, Actors, Celebrities and Football that all typify Northern, and especially Mancunian popular culture for his brightly colourful mosaics.

Alternative Portrait Project: Harrison 2010

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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

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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

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2010 Wall Planner on Sale NOW!!

Mr. Sands — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:33:13 +0000

This year we have designed a wall planner to showcase the high quality of Artwork created by our Key Stage 4 learners for the Alternative Portrait Project. These are large format 12″x18″ on Fujicolor Crystal Lustre Archive photo paper and cost £4.99 + P&P and to purchase please contact us shop@departmentart.co.uk

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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

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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

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New School Display

Mr. Sands — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:32:55 +0000

Here are a few pictures of our new departmentart display in the main area of the school.

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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

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Robert Indiana

Mr. Sands — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:28:16 +0000

Robert Indiana is a Pop Artist famous for his use of typography, font, number and colour. His most iconic work is entitled ‘Love’ which has been investigated in two and three dimensions.

Pupil Example: Nicci 2009

Pupil Example: Robyn 2007

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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

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Video Tutorial – Alternative Portrait Stage 3

Mr. Sands — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:07:47 +0000

Stage 3: Priming the face cast

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Video Tutorial – Alternative Portrait Stage 2

Mr. Sands — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:57:05 +0000

Stage 2: Attaching face cast to the board

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Video Tutorial – Alternative Portrait Stage 1

Mr. Sands — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:34:47 +0000

Stage 1: How to produce a face cast

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Roy Lichtenstein

Mr. Sands — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:55:48 +0000

Roy Lichtenstein‘s work is influenced by popular culture. He became a leading artist in the ‘pop art’ movement creating work inspired by advertising and comic book imagery, including the ‘Ben Day‘ dot technique.

Textiles Project

Pupil Example: Danielle 2006

Alternative Portrait Project

Pupil Example: Laura 2005

Pupil Example: Janet 2004

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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

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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

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Banksy

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

Banksy

Alternative Portrait Project

Pupil Example: James 2007

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Pez

Mr. Sands — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:30:00 +0000

Pez (which translates as fish in Spanish) paints colourful, simplistic compositions that include his fish-like characters.

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

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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

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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

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Obey Giant

Mr. Sands — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:33:43 +0000

Obey Giant is a street art campaign emerged from the skateboarding scene of the 1980′s created by the graphic designer and illustrator Shepard Fairey.

Fairey has produced a wide range of artwork from paste ups, stickers, screenprints, mix media stencil collage, to 15 foot mural installations worldwide. To consolidate his fame Fairey produced a now iconic series of posters supporting Barack Obama’s candidacy for US President in 2008 entitled “PROGRESS”, “HOPE”, and “CHANGE”.

Alternative Portrait Project

Pupil example: Zarmena 2009

Pupil Sketchbook: Zarmena 2009

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