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Ralph Goings

Mr. Sands — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:39:19 +0000

Ralph Goings is a photorealist painter who has captured a slice of American popular culture in his studies of Diners, Condiments and Food and Drink. This work has influenced our Food and Drink/Supersized project.

Supersized project

Pupil Example: Rachel 2010

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Laura Oldfield Ford: Malthouse Project

Mr. Sands — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:04:13 +0000

Our Learners will embark on a 5 day workshop with the artist Laura Oldfield Ford. They will be collaborating on a large scale mapping project that looks at hidden narratives, alternative futures and community housing within the city. All work will be exhibited Saturday 17th July – Friday 30th July 2010. (Private View Friday 16th July 5 – 7 pm)

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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

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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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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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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

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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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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:

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

Food and Drink Project

Pupil Example: Sifa 2007

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

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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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Gustav Klimt

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

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

Textile Project

Pupil Example: Egle 2005

Klimt Worksheet: To Print

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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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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.

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

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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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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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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

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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.

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