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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

Maurizio Anzeri

Mr. Sands — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:08:25 +0000

Maurizio Anzeri creates embroidered or sculptured photographs using symmography. The visual narratives are selected from vintage photographs found in secondhand markets and rather than wrapping thread around pins Maurizio Anzeri penetrates the photograph with thread. The needle work creates creative costumes for the sitter, evoke a psychological aura or express emotion of feeling through his textiles doodles.

Level 3 Psycho Portraiture Project

Learners Response: Jodie 2012

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

John Stezaker

Mr. Sands — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:32:10 +0000

John Stezaker works with ready made iconography that have been influenced by surrealism to create striking juxtapositions between the figure/portrait, landscape and topography. His collage based compositions suggest a deeper, psychological narrative towards the viewer and hidden unexplored aspect behind the character.

People and Places Project 2011

Learner Example: Rachel 2011

Kehinde Wiley

Mr. Sands — Wed, 11 May 2011 19:03:34 +0000

Kehinde Wiley is a fusion painter whose work blur the boundaries between traditional and contemporary styles and plays with visual juxtapositions. These paintings take stereotypes of masculinity and envelope these characters with pattern and colour as diverse as Islamic Architecture, French Rococo, West African Textile to Urban Hip Hop.

2011 GCSE Art Exam People and Places

Learner Example: Nita 2011

Photo Booth Photography

Mr. Sands — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:26:01 +0000

Andy Warhol championed the use of photo booth photography to create an instant record of an emotion, a brief or social encounter, a reunion of friends or the family unit. The photo booth process and rapid succession of images allowed the sitter to gaze anxiously awaiting the flash or provides an opportunity to escape from their everyday persona. We have used this process to investigate persona, sterotype and expand on photographic techinques. For details about one of the last photoautomat’s (Photo Booth) in London see here!

Perception of Self: Photography Project

Learners Examples: Tino and Sophie 2011

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 .

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 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.

Level 2 BTEC Brief: Alternative Portrait

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

This is your Level 2 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!

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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