Ordinary…

Extraordinary…

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EXTRAORDINARY...

This is your GCSE Art Exam question.

Ordinary Definition:not different or special or unexpected in any way; usual Typical, common, customary, routine, familiar‘Readers of the magazine said they wanted more stories about

ordinary people and fewer stories about the rich and famous.’

Extraordinary Definitionvery unusual, special, unexpected or strange Exceptional, remarkable, unfamiliar, curious‘He told the extraordinary story of his escape.’

Today we will:

THINK about what these words ACTUALLY meanLOOK at many starting points for this question

DISCOVER artists and designers who could inspire us on this topic

SHARE ideas with each other

EXAM = 40%

Everybody knows... the four AO’s

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

AO1: Looking at other artists = 25%AO2: Experimenting with media = 25%

AO3: Recording your ideas = 25%AO4: Making a final piece = 25%

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

START TODAY!

Exam dates….

Tuesday 8th and Wednesday 9th May

Where to begin?

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There are 6 main starting points.

PEOPLE, PLACES, IMAGINATION, OBJECTS, ACTIVITIES and

NATURAL WORLD.

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...

PEOPLE

Quinn is inspired to work with physical deformity.Looking at fragmented sculptures in the British Museum, he wondered how viewers would respond to bodies that had been damaged during their lifetime rather than after being transformed into objects through artistic representation.

Portrait of Martin Luther King made out of dominoes.

Marc Quinn Robert Bosch

No Woman No Cry 1998. Uses mixed media, including elephant dung!

Chris Ofili

‘Elvis. 1962’. Screenprinting on silk. At that time Elvis was seen everywhere- on TV, magazines, newspapers. The way his image is repeated over and over seems like a comment on that. The fact that the image of Elvis seems to be fading away could be significant...

Andy Warhol

Malcolm Farley – ‘Ali’

Maggi Hambling – ‘Jackie Laughing’ 2005. Oil on canvas.

Elizabeth Peyton – ‘Flower Liam’ 1996. Oil on board.

Celebrity paintings

Elizabeth Peyton Peyton painted numerous celebrities in her distinct style which renders each of her models with the same red lips, defined eyes and pale skin.

http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=8042

To the right a good weblink for MOMA gallery for this artist

Artist Georgia O’ Keeffe’s hands with thimble. An alternative way to make a portrait of somebody.

Alfred Stieglitz

Richard Billingham's photographs of his family in their Birmingham flat, published in the book Ray's a Laugh 1996, are a stark, painful and often humorous study of the relationships within his own family. They encapsulate many of the critical questions relating to the position of the observer in relation to the observed.

Richard Billingham

Scramble For Africa. The Swing. 2001.

Fashion designer and sculpture artist. These pieces of work show a very surreal representation of the human form.

Yinka Shonibare

Jason Freeny – Contemporary sculpture

John Hedgecoe-Took the photo of the Queen that is used on postage stamps

Arnold Machin – created the plaster cast of the Queen that is used on postage stamps

This is now a very ordinary sight as we see it all the time on coins and stamps.

Wall mounted wooden sculptures and dark, dry-point etching prints. 2011

Ana Maria Pacheco

Adele Bloch-Bauer 1907. Oil and gold on canvas. She is clasping her hands (she had a deformed finger). Dressed in gold, surrounded by gold. Lots of gold suggests she is wealthy and important.

The Kiss

Gustav Klimt

Julian Opi

Cindy SheermanSherman’s photographs are portraits of herself in various scenarios that parody stereotypes of women. A panoply of characters and settings are drawn from sources of popular culture, old movies, television soaps and pulp fiction.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian Renaissance Artist among many other talents. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time.

Leonardo da Vinci

Lucin Freud

http://www.npg.org.uk/freudsite/

'I've always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint people. It's people who have brought drama to pictures from the beginning. The simplest human gestures tell stories.'

Reflection (Self-portrait), 1985

Current exhibition on at the National Portrait Gallery London 9th Feb – 27th May

“The Great Bear” 1992 – links people of popular culture together.

Simon Patterson

OBJECTS

‘No Escape’ -images of flood scenes had been transfer printed onto children's dresses.

Goldsmith’s work uses textile materials and processes as a metaphor for imagining how psychological states, emotions and memories associated with human fragility and loss can be made visible in cloth.

Shelly Goldsmith

Martin Waters

Ed Ruscha- Ribbon drawings

Eye, 1970 Quit, 1967

Self, 1967

Lisa Milroy- collections of ordinary objects

Guitar Headstock -Oil on panel. Little Clay Pots -Oil on panel.

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Kim KibbyOil paintings of everyday objects

Summer Delight #2:Flip Flops – Oil on panel

Tinker Toy Still Life -Oil on canvas

Andy Warhol- Ordinary Objects

Joseph Cornell

‘Untitled’ (Cocatoo and Corks),1948, 4 3/8 x 13 1/2 x 5 5/8 inchs.

Joseph Cornell’s Art work are collections of bought and found objects in boxes.

Cornell collected source material for his work, which became artistic creations about his inner thoughts, desires, and imagination.

Assembling lots of the same type of object together in groups.Susan Hiller

William Michael HarnettHarnett was a very skilled painter. He wanted to make objects look as realistic as possible.

He used an assorted collection of everyday objects to create interesting compositions for his Art.

To the right: ‘Old Models’ 1892 Oil on Canvas

‘A Man's Table Reversed’ 1877 Oil on Canvas

Doris Salcedo This is a contemporary installation and sculpture. The artist uses familiar objects in ways that become strange and unsettling.The wardrobe and the clothing inside were filled with concrete so they became sealed up and unable to be used.

The space between two buildings was filled with chairs, with a startling effect.

‘Natura Morta’ (Still Life in Italian) These objects are familiar, yet they are purposely stripped of any identifying marks such as labels. They are anonymous. These objects could easily come from anyone's kitchen.

‘Book, Pipe and Glasses’. A Cubist style still life painting.

Guan Gris Georgiou Morandi

Philippe Starck

Mveongbeom Kim

Kriti Arora - Blackened coats and heavy trousers are like the skins of the people employed to build the road-sides. Hung out to dry by the artist, these fibres, originally coloured and textured, appear stiff and impossible to use as they are drenched in tar.

Small scale to large scale...

Louise Bourgeois – Maman, 1999. Bronze. “The Spider is an ode to my mother. She was my best friend. Like a spider, my mother was a weaver. Like spiders, my mother was very clever. Spiders are friendly presences that eat mosquitoes. We know that mosquitoes spread diseases and are therefore unwanted. So, spiders are helpful and protective, just like my mother.”

Claes Oldenburg. Pop artist. Very large replica sculptures of everyday objects, pictured in unusual places.

Su Blackwell – paper cut art

PLACES

“Map of my Day” 1995

Sarah Fanelli

‘Map’ combines a kind of representation, that is, a map of the United States, with many issues more common to abstract painting. Johns combines colour, lines, and readable gestures (brushstrokes), as well as letting paint speak for itself on flat canvas surfaces.

‘Map’ 1961 Oil on canvas

Jasper Johns

Maps

Manus WalshLS Lowry - Market Scene, Northern Town, 1939

Alfred Wallis

Anselm Kiefer – ‘Athanor’. Mixed media textural painting.Can the materials that you use give the place you are depicting a certain mood or feeling?

Ando Hiroshige – Japanese woodblock prints, exaggerating the shapes and pattern seen within a natural landscape. (Ukiyo-e)

Site of nuclear disaster – Chernobyl, Ukraine. 1986. Ordinary places left derelict and abandoned take on a ghostly, spooky quality.

Rachel Whiteread – ‘House’ 1993.

A concrete cast of the inside of an entire Victorian terraced house, exhibited at the location of the original house — 193 Grove Road — in East London (all the houses in the street had earlier been knocked down by the council).

It also won the Turner Prize in 1993. Tower Hamlets London Borough Council demolished House on 11 January 1994.

Jacques Villegle

Patrick Heron – 1950. The artist has made this scene surreal with his use of colour and line.

Slinkachu- Little worlds Slinkachu is as a London-based artist who creates very small street-based installations and then photographs them: from far away and up-close.

Faith Ringgold African American

Tar Beach 2 1990 Silkscreen on silk 66 x 66"

Gaudi

The most famous of Gaudi’s work, this church in Barcelona has been in construction for more than 100 years. Gaudi was a devout Catholic and spent over 10 years working just on this project.