Year 12 Exam

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Year 12 Exam

• Links and Connections
• You can pursue any of these starting points or
  devise your own.
• Avoid the visual cliché (overused image)
• Ensure that you can access Primary sources for
  your idea.

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Links and Connections

• Dictionary Definition
• Being connected.
• A place where things connect a connecting part.
• When things are timed to connect with each other
  (e.g. a train).
• A relative or associate, especially with
  influence.
• A link or relationship between ideas.

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Optional Starting Points

• Mechanical and Organic/Inorganic Links
• Cultural Links
• Connection with people/society/environment
• Connection with the coast/landscape

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Mechanical and Organic /Inorganic Links

• Observational drawings of
• Mechanical Links, chains, cogs, ropes, nails,
  fixings, lifts, stairs, weaving, knots, nets,
  sewing, fibres, elastic

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Artists linked with this theme
Eduardo Paolozzi Technology and machinery
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Margaret Bourke-White
Bourke-White used photography to document all
aspects of business and industry in an age that
admired self-made men and their fortunes
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Industry and Machinery
Fernand Leger Above The construction Workers
and right, Le Moteur.
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Giacoma Balla
Left Abstract Speed, The Car has Passed and
below Speed of a Motorcycle.
Futurism was a movement which took technology,
speed and modernity as its inspiration conveying
technological dynamics of Twentieth Century life.
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Tony Cragg
Much of Craggs early work is made from found
materials such as discarded construction
materials and disposed household materials. His
pieces include collected plastic fragments which
are arranged by colour.
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Anna Held Audette
Produces oil paintings of scrap metal. The
painting above was commissioned by a scrap
metal dealer which features the metal coming from
his yard.
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Chris Jordan
Jordans work is an American self-portrait. The
artist looks at contemporary American culture
using statistics. For example 426,000 cell phones
being retired a day.
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Chris Jordan
He uses photography to try to convey the amount
of waste we produce every day. The images are
depressing, but beautiful at the same time. Here
Jordan produces Seurats Sunday Afternoon on the
Island of Grande Jatte, using thousands of used
drinks cans.
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Nicolas Lampert
Lampert produces collages using a mixture of
insects and machinery.
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Max Ernst
Ernst uses organic links and natural forms to
produce texture in his painting using grattage.
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Cultural Links

• Observational Drawings of
• Celtic designs, Islamic designs, clothing,
  buildings, interlocked hands, Flags, money

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Artists linked with this theme
Celtic Art
Aboriginal Art, used as a means of communication
expressing beliefs in Dreaming stories or in some
cases were used to record specific events.
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Cultures and Tradition
Traditionally used in India, henna is known for
fertility and henceforth used during weddings,
baby shower and other joyful occasions.
Japanese Geishas and traditional Kimonos.
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Flags and Stamps
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Money
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Connection with people/society/environment

• Observational drawings of-
• Personal objects, photographs, postcards,
  letters, friends, family, image/statue of God,
  crucifix, church, landscapes

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Artists linked with this theme-
Peter Blakes Memories of a Place.
Joseph Cornells Memories in boxes
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Travelling
Gino Severini Suburban Train Arriving in Paris
Above Mondrian
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Travelling
Julian Opie
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Environment
Andy Goldsworthy
Richard Long
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People and Places
Above "Midsummer East Yorkshire" 2004, and left,
'Scrabble, Hollywood, 1 January 1983'
David Hockney
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Chuck Close Portraits
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Communication
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Self-Image
Barbara Kruger
Saville's works (right) are impressive both in
size and composition. She has a great technique
of painting lush, fleshy landscapes, adding a
menacing twist to the actual composition. She
works with a rich heavy texture that not only
fills her distorted subjects a very tangible,
animate quality, but in certain cases allow her
to carve contouring lines across the landscapes
of her over-sized nudes.
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Pain and Suffering
Kathy Kollwitz
Edvard Munch
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Conflicts of War
Left, displays at concentration camps and above,
war graves
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Paul Nash
This painting, the title of which is German for
dead sea, was inspired by a dump of wrecked
aircraft at Cowley in Oxfordshire. Nash based the
image on photographs he took there, a few of
which are on display near by. The artist
described the sight The thing looked to me
suddenly, like a great inundating sea ... the
breakers rearing up and crashing on the plain.
And then, no nothing moves, it is not water or
even ice, it is something static and dead.
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Pablo Picasso
Picassos Guernica is based around the Spanish
Civil War.
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Self-Portraits
From left to right, Frida Kahlo, Vincent Van
Gogh and Sarah Lucas.
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Emotions and Colour
Franz Marc
Vincent Van Gogh
Kandinsky
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Connection with the Coast/landscape

• Observational drawings of-
• Shells, reefs, sea cave, water, ocean, beach,
  coast, landscape, connection with physical
  journey, landmarks, iconic building.

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Artists linked with this theme
Shells by Georgia OKeeffe.
Reef sculptures made from fishing wire by Melissa
Hirsch.
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Water
Lorraine Shemesh
David Hockney
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Water
William Turner
Changes in landscapes caused by erosion.
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Water and Landscape
Andre Derain
Claude Monet
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Landmarks
Monets Houses of Parliament.
Gaudi
Robert Delaunay
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Landmarks
Taj Mahal
New York images by Andy Warhol
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Links and Connections

• You have eight weeks to prepare for your timed
  test. The exam preparation work is worth 75 of
  the final exam mark.
• The timed test (Final Piece) is worth 25 of the
  final exam mark

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Links and Connections

• Your sketchbook should take you and the examiner
  on a journey.
• Aim to produce a minimum of 20 pages in your
  sketchbook.
• Good Luck!