There are many different meanings for these words and how they can be interpreted in Art.

EarthNoun

1.The planet on which we live; the world. "the diversity of life on earth" Synonyms: world, globe, planet, sphere, orb

2. the substance of the land surface; soil. "a layer of earth" Synonyms: soil, topsoil, loam, clay, silt, dirt, sod, clod, turf.

Verb

1.(British) connect (an electrical device) with the ground. "the front metal panels must be soundly earthed"

2. Hunting drive (a fox) to its underground lair

FireNoun

1. a process in which substances combine chemically with oxygen from the air and typically give out bright light, heat, and smoke; combustion or burning. "his house was destroyed by fire“

2. a burning sensation. "the whisky lit a fire in the back of his throat”

Verb

1. discharge a gun or other weapon in order to propel (a bullet or projectile). "he fired a shot at the retreating prisoners" Synonyms: launch, shoot, discharge, eject, hurl, throw, send flying, let fly with. loose off, shy, send.

2. dismiss (an employee) from a job. "I had to fire men who've been with me for years" Synonyms: discharge, dismiss, give someone their notice, make redundant, lay off, let go, throw out, get rid of

AirNoun

1.the invisible gaseous substance surrounding the earth, a mixture mainly of oxygen and nitrogen.

2. an impression of a quality or manner given by someone or something. "she answered with a faint air of boredom" Synonyms: expression, appearance, look, impression, aspect, manner, bearing, mien, countenance.

Verb

1.express (an opinion or grievance) publicly. "a meeting in which long-standing grievances were aired“ Synonyms: express, voice, make public, vent, ventilate, articulate, state, declare, give expression to, give voice to.

2.expose (a room) to the open air in order to ventilate it. "the window sashes were lifted regularly to air the room“ Synonyms: ventilate, aerate, freshen, refresh.

WaterNoun

1.a colourless, transparent, odourless, liquid which forms the seas, lakes, rivers, and rain and is the basis of the fluids of living organisms. "sodium chloride dissolves in water" Synonyms: aqua

2. A stretch or area of water, such as a river, sea, or lake. “the lawns ran down to the water's edge" Synonyms: sea, ocean, lake, loch, pond, pool, reservoir, river

Verb

1.pour or sprinkle water over (a plant or area) in order to encourage plant growth. "I went out to water the geraniums" Synonyms: sprinkle, moisten, dampen, wet, spray, splash.

2. (of a person's eyes) fill with tears. "Rory blinked, his eyes watering”

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Everybody knows... the Everybody knows... the four AOs four AOs

For the exam you have to show evidence of: ALL 4 of the AOs (Assessment Objectives)

AO1: Looking at other artists AO2: Experimenting with media AO3: Recording your ideas AO4: Making a final piece

It is important that you begin working on the EXAM Paper straight away.

START TODAY!

Exam dates….

8th, 9th and 12th May

Where to begin?Where to begin?

Remember ….

The theme is merely a starting point to inspire you.

Feel free to take the project in any direction that you wish, provided that you can clearly justify and explain how the theme has inspired your thoughts and ideas.

The Four Elements

The ancient Greeks believed that everything was composed of a mixture of just four ‘elements’ – earth, air, water and fire.

This is not quite as silly as it might at first sound; the world is composed of matter in various ‘states’ - solid, liquid and gas and plasma - a type of very hot high energy gas. The Greeks had in effect divided all matter into the four basic categories which we now called solids, gases, liquids and plasma.

Earth – (solids)Air – (gases)Water – (liquids)Fire – (plasma)

Gas

Solid Liquid

EARTHFIREAIR WATER

You must begin by exploring all the themes below. You then may narrow your ideas down by choosing to focus on just some or one of the words.

Contextual references

The artists on the next few pages are suggestions to help you think about possible ideas. You may already have ideas of your own.

Keep an open mind at this point...

There is also a Beaumont Pinterest Album of Artists and ideas to support you with your project

EarthEarth

Claude Monet

Jelle MartensMartens work combines strong graphic blocks of colour woven together with saturated grainy photography to create dynamic visual palettes.  

Marten is a Belgian Artist, Photographer and Graphic Designer

Herbert La Thangue

La Thangue was an English realist rural landscape painter

(19 January 1859 – 21 December 1929)

David Hockney

Kurt Jackson

Fiona Hall

“In my work this romantic ideal of union with the natural world conflicts with our contemporary impact on the environment.  These pieces are in part responses to environmental stressors including climate change, toxic pollution, and GM crops”. 

Kate MacDowell.

Judith BraunNew York-based artist Judith Braun creates all these wonderful landscapes and abstract patterns using nothing but her fingers dipped in charcoal dust

Taste the Rain is part of an ongoing series of work using material that has fallen from trees: acorns, beechnut casings, leaves, bark, sycamore keys

Anna Gillespie

Kimberly Kersey AsburyAbout the Landscape Series:  Powered Pigment, Wax, Paint, Thread, Stuffing on Canvas, Paper, and/or Fabric. The landscapes along with the hand-stitched artist books are inspired by William Turner’s watercolor sketchbooks.

Born in 1962, in La Habana, Cuba Lives and works in Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Jorge Mayet

Alfred creates collages, paintings, and digital animations.Brian Alfred

Jared Steffensen

FireFire

Lucas Simoes Simões takes photographic portraits and burns through the eyes. Whilst the images themselves aren't of a particularly disturbing nature, the destruction of them using such a brutal media and to create such sensitive forms results in something quite grotesque but enchanting.

Antony GormleyWASTE MAN was made over a six-week period at the end of summer 2006 out of about 30 tonnes of waste materials that had been gathered by the Thanet waste disposal services in Kent and by local people, and deposited in Dreamland, the area of Margate next to the sea and close to the station that had traditionally been the site of a vast funfair.

Fire Paintings, 1960

Yves Klein

Eruption of Vesuvius, 1776

Joseph Wright of Derby

Pierre Debusschere is a visual artist working in the fields of photography & video. He has shot editorials for several leading magazines such as Vogue Homme Japan and Citizen K, as well as being a regular contributor to Dazed & Confused.

Pierre Debusschere

For Hegarty, the joy of her work lies in its destruction rather than its making. Centering her practice on the politics of the American myth, Hegarty’s canvases and sculptures replicate emblems of frontier ethos - colonial furniture, antique dishware, and heroic paintings of landscapes and national figures only to demolish them by devices associated with their historical significance.

Valerie Hegarty

Georges de La Tour was a French Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which was temporarily absorbed into France between 1641 and 1648. He painted mostly religious chiaroscuro scenes lit by candlelight.

Georges De La Tour

Van Gogh

AirAir

Tim Knowles

Catherine Eaton Skinner

Damien Hirst

The Artist 'blows away' photo subjects with powerful blasts of wind to create interesting facial expressions in images

Tadao Cern

A beautiful series of photographs, inspired by what she wants to experience.

Maia Flore

Ingberg is a self-taught photographer and visual artist, born 1980 in Sweden. He works with photography and digital image editing, creating minimalistic and self-reflecting surreal photo montages dealing with human nature, feelings and thoughts.

Tommy Ingberg

Gerhard Richter

Perceiving the flow

Gil Bruvel

Paper in Three Dimensions”My work is about retrieving the discarded, celebrating the unwanted and giving new life to the obsolete. I use old and out-of-date maps and atlases as my fabric to create intricate, delicate and detailed sculptures.”

Claire Brewster

Hanging paper flower installation

Lisa Keophila, Fiona Lim Tung, Kristen Lim Tung & Jon Margono

A sudden gust of wind, 1993

Wall produced this clever image with multiple exposures, combined in post production (image manipulation). His inspiration was the Hokusai print

Jeff Wall

Wind

Adrian Sommerling

“My inspiration comes while trekking through the gritty chaos of a metal scrap yard, abandoned alleyway or natural area. I find beauty in imperfection and may often times see it in scarred, weathered and entropic surfaces of a rusty scrap of metal, natural stone or other found objects.”

LuAnn Ostergaard

series of photographs / rotting fruit

Peter Lippmann

WaterWater

To see more of Turner’s paintings visit the National Maritime Museum (exhibition lasts to 21st April 2014).

William Turner

Alfred Wallis

Ana Teresa Barboza

My home is the sea

Matt Wisniewski

Sophie Calle met people in Turkey who despite living close to the coast had never seen the sea. These films show the first time they look at the ocean. They were asked to turn around and face the camera when they were ready. Emotions range from elation to bitter tears.

“Voir La Mer” (To see the sea)

Sophie Calle

Peter Doig

“As part of my research for the course I discovered the textiles and clothing of the Caribou Inuit in Northern Canada and was fascinated by the Arctic landscape.”

Sandra Meech

Thomas Saliot

Oil paintings of pools

Jean-Pierre Kunkel

Alexandre Ciancio

Deniz Senyesil

Katsushika Hokusai

Aneta Ivanova

Crespo is a photographer whose work has featured in Urban Outfitters, Elle Decor UK, NY Mag's TheCut.com Apartment Therapy, SFGirlByBay, Creature Comforts, and Philly.com

Tina Crespo

Buamai - Bubble Drawings :

Charlotte X. C. Sullivan

Ink and waterAlberto Seveso

Linnea Strid

AllAll……

Dorothea Lange

“You are the Weather”

Roni Horn

Mueck's sculptures faithfully reproduce the minute detail of the human body, but play with scale to produce disconcertingly jarring visual images.

Ron Mueck

Lucian Freud

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