Welcome to the Art Department A level Art and Design Fine Art AQA 7202
What is Fine Art? Fine Art may be defined as work developed primarily to communicate aesthetic, intellectual or purely conceptual ideas and meanings, rather than to serve a practical or commercial function. For example, work could be the outcome of personal experiences, thoughts and feelings, or simply to observe and record people, places and things in new and unique ways.
Fine Art work will demonstrate an understanding and application of formal elements and creative skills. You, as students, are expected to use visual communication sensitively and thoughtfully to document your artistic journey and fully support your intentions.
A level exhibition The culmination of your course will be celebrated with an exhibition of your work. An external examiner will also have visited to ensure your marks are accurate and that you are covering all Assessment Objectives.
Examples of AS work
Examples of A2 work
Classroom task The following slides will show you images of sculptures based on the reclining figure. With your group you are to discuss the images shown. You are to plan and present a 3D form based on and/or influenced by the artists work shown. You are not to copy any one sculpture. Materials for use are cardboard and tape, newspaper, withies (long flexible sticks), cable ties, string, stones, plasticine, clay.
Henry Moore Reclining Figure 1936.
Reclining nude II, Matisse
Recumbent nude. 1950 Bronze Henry Moore
Manuel Felguerez, Reclining Nude, Ceramic Sculpture
Arleen Eichengreen & Nancy Gensburg Abstracted Reclining Figure
Reclining Nude, Cubist Bronze, American School
Henry Moore, Reclining Nude, 1952
American Modern Post-War Reclining nude sculpture c.1950 c. 1950
Large Reclining figure, 1984 Henry Moore
Henry Moore, Reclining figure 1929
Henry Moore, Bronze reclining woman
Matisse, Blue Nude 1
Barbara Hepworth, Mother and Child 1934
Henry Moore, Reclining Figure 1932
Reclining Figure, Frank Dobson
Henry Moore, Three Reclining Figures
Minimalist Italian Man Bronze Sculpture Limited Edition by Giovanni Ginestroni
Nude, Brancusi
Antony Caro, Woman Waking Up, 1955
Antony Caro, Woman Waking up, 1955
Henry Moore, Stringed Reclining Figure 1939
Naum Gabo, Figure,
Antony Caro, Steel Sculpture Part 1
Lynn Chadwick, Two Reclining Figures - Maquette III (1971)
Art (Fine Art) Examining Body: AQA Specification No. 7202/C, 7202/X Required Reading: John Berger, Drawing is Discovery (1953). This is a very short but powerful (2 page) essay. Available as a pdf here https://db.tt/kjyv3z6h, and also reprinted here http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/art-and-design/2013/05/john-berger-drawing-discovery. Required Viewing: Andrew Graham-Dixon, The Secret of Drawing Episode 3: "All In The Mind". BBC 2005. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy_t2cwjqnw. Further reading: These should all be available in local libraries. Ernst Gombrich, The Story of Art (Phaidon) John Berger (et al), Ways of Seeing (Penguin) Charles Harrison, English Art and Modernism 1900-1939 (Yale University Press) Nikos Stangos (ed.), Concepts of Modern Art (Thames and Hudson) George Heard Hamilton, Painting and Sculpture in Europe 1880-1940 (Penguin) Required Summer preparatory task: BP Portrait Awards visit Visit the BP Portrait Awards at the National Portrait Gallery (just round the corner from the National Gallery, near Trafalgar Square). The BP Awards is the most prestigious international exhibition of contemporary portrait paintings. Details: http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/bp-portrait-award-2017/exhibition/ It is essential that you visit the gallery to experience the works qualities directly, and that you take with you a notebook in which you can record your observations. These should be both written and pictorial. Look at the exhibit and choose two works that you like. Make transcriptions of these works (or sections of the works). Add your observations. What do you like about the work especially? Choose two other pieces that show different styles of painting. Compare and contrast the images, taking into consideration characteristics such as: theme, pictorial structure (composition), materials, brushwork, colour, tone, light, arrangements of forms in pictorial space, body posture and facial gesture. Make written and visual notes (pencil, colour pencil) on the aspects of the work, and also record your personal experience (the ways in which you are affected by the work). When looking at the artwork and making transcriptions/comments please ensure you add the artist s name, name of the work, media, date produced and any relevant gallery information. Buy postcards, look online, and take photographs if allowed. BRING ALL WORK TO THE FIRST LESSON PLEASE