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Symbolism & Identity A LEVEL ART & DESIGN Summer Assignment

In Year 12, all of your work will be based on the theme of Symbolism & Identity using environments,

woodland settings, landscape or objects as stimuli. The focus is on developing work from observation,

experimenting with media and visual elements and expressing ideas and feelings.

REMEMBER

Art is hard work but fun and there is no right or wrong way of doing this!

Complete tasks 1 to 4 and then at least one of the further development tasks.

Add images of any of the artists that inspire your work with your practical studies.

Thumbnails & Photographs Task 1

Collect and annotate images of figurative artworks that portray Symbolism or Identity, (Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Vermeer, Vincent Van Gogh, Hopper, Lucian Freud, Jenny Saville, Edvard Munch, Käthe Kollwitz, Helen Chadwick, Andy Warhol, Maggie Hambling, Paula Rego, Frida Kahlo, Tai-Shan Schierenberg, Matt Small, Michaël Borremans and the following photographers; Man Ray, Dorothea Lange, Mary Ellen Mark, Helen Levitt, Edward Steichen, Tony Luciani, Flora Borshi and John Stezaker.) Also find your own artists and look up those pictured in this hand out. Fill 4-6 pages of your book.

Task 2

Identity in environments & settings: Take photographs of yourself in your environment. Consider composition, lighting, close-ups and unusual viewpoints. You could choose natural, urban or interior environments. Include an object that reveals something about you.

Use both tasks to start off your sketchbook with lots of visual connections with the theme of Symbolism & Identity.

Vermeer “Lady with Her Maid-servant Holding a Letter”

Edward Hopper “New York Movie”

Angelica Kauffmann “Self-Portrait”

Sam Taylor-Wood

Frida Kahlo “Self-Portrait”

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Hands/ Feet &

Symbolism Task 3

Make studies of your feet and at least two studies of your hands. You must consider different poses, interesting lighting and a range of different styles. Use a variety of materials such as charcoal, graphite, pastel, pen, pencil or paint. Look up at least 2 different artists to experiment with their style of drawing or painting. Stick the artist’s examples on the same sheet and annotate.

Produce full pages of studies. Consider the source of light and the shadows that are cast to create a dramatic effect.

ADD AN OBJECT OR ACTIVITY/ ACTION For example a hand holding another object to symbolise an idea.

Locking /linking hands, squashing or breaking an object, writing a note

or drawing.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Henry Moore Ruth Anderson

Albrecht Dürer Auguste Rodin

Ubermochi

Adolf Von Menzel

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Mood & Emotion

Task 4

Produce 2 or more portrait studies – (any media – pencil, ink, charcoal, collage, mixed media, ink, paint, photography etc), complete at least 1 in a colour media of your choice.

Each one must express a different emotion or mood (e.g. joyous, angry, threatening, sad, grief, aggressive, peaceful, lonely, calm, sensual, fragile, powerful, insane , protective, etc.)

Try and show the emotion by the marks you use, the media and it’s application (e.g brushes, sponges, fingers) or enlarged scale.

Work from observation initially, and add imaginative marks, gestures and colour to create the mood.

Fill the page up with each study, close ups are better than small studies.

Matt Small

Munch “Adolescence”

Anita Taylor Freya Payne Willem De Kooning Gill Greenberg

Caravaggio

Maggie Hambling Bobbie Lee Adams Mary Ellen Mark

Rembrandt

Francis Bacon

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FURTHUR DEVELOPMENT

Symbolism &

Portraits Task 5

Add an object or background setting to a study of a portrait to convey mood or emotion further. Combine the theme of nature or manmade, for example a figure, lost toy, item of clothing or an animal/ skull or metamorphosis. Think about lighting.

You could use your own photographs and create a Photoshop study instead of a drawing or painting. Or use an app on your phone/devise.

You could layer your image by drawing or painting onto photographs or newspaper.

Catrin Welz Stein

Hambling

Flora Borshi

Nina Katchadourian

Chris Stevens Nicky Hoberman

Rembrandt

Amy Judd

Léonor Fini “The End of the World”

Steve Caldwell

Nunzio Paci

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FURTHUR DEVELOPMENT

Identity & the figure Task 6

Add another object as a “barrier” to identity or to reveal identity to a portrait or a study of part of the body. Think about lighting, viewpoints and composition. Work from your own well composed photographs or observation.

Work from observation as much as possible, in any media.

You could use your own photographs and create a Photoshop study in addition to a drawing or painting. See double exposure photographs for ideas or artists on this page.

You could draw or paint onto newspaper, cardboard or photographs.

Experiment with a range of media and surfaces.

You will be expected to present your work to your

teacher and the rest of your group for your first

lesson in year 12.

Jerry Uelsmann

Jim Lambie Shin Young An

Franco Pagetti

Yumiko Utsu

Jasper James

Alfred Stieglitz “Georgia O’Keeffe’s hands

Michaël Borremans “Sweet as it Gets”

Michele Parliament