Identity Week 1L2 Art and Design

Tasks for this week

Understand overview of project and expectations

Mind map briefTake a collection of quality photographsArtist research and linksDrawing tasksPhotoshop experimentationAll work logged and analysed in

sketchbook/Word press

Mind mapping

Complete mapping sheet exploring the different elements of the brief

This is excellent evidence of you dissecting the brief.

Be inspired by – Vivien Maier

Photography

Camera/phone/IPADFull faceClose upDifferent anglesDetails/featuresWhat makes you

individual?Filters/colours/B&WHow many?QualityUpload best 10 to blog

Leonardo Da Vinci

15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519His areas of strength included painting, sculpting,

architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, invention, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing…..

Renaissance - bridging the gap between the middle ages and modern history

he did not see a divide between science and art.His painting was scientific, based on a deep

understanding of the workings of the human body and the physics of light and shade. His science was expressed through art, and his drawings and diagrams show what he meant, and how he understood the world to work.

Artist link 1 – Leonardo Da Vinci

What can you say about his mark making?

How could you be inspired by this artist?

What ideas could you transfer into your own work?

Artist link 2 –Egon Schiele

Signature graphic style, embrace of figural distortion, and bold defiance of conventional norms of beauty

Leading figures of Austrian Expressionism, born 1890

Tragically early death of influenza at age twenty-eight

three thousand drawings over the course of his brief career

Painter Gustav Klimt was the primary influence on Schiele's development

The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that characterize Schiele's paintings and drawings mark the artist as an early leader of Expressionism.

How could you be inspired by this artist?

What ideas could you transfer into your own work?

Who is the artist that you are researching? (give some background info)What do you think of the artists work, do you like it?What materials, techniques and processes are they using?How does this artist’s work relate to your own?Has it inspired you and if so how?Are there any techniques or processes that they have used which you may use in your future work?

Amys Drawing task – viewfinder studies, inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci

Observational drawing is an extremely important part of every project you will do.

Collect objects and take GOOD QUALITY photos.

When you are recording your observations look closely at form/colour/texture/shape/tone …..

Use a variety of drawing and mark making materials.

Artist link 3 – Andy Warhol

Born on 6th August 1928Known for his pop art and his

work focuses of the crossover between celebrity, advertising and artistic expression.

painting, printmaking, photography, drawing, sculpture, film and music.

In the 1960s he produced a series of paintings of iconic American images and objects

What can you say about his use of colour?

Artist link 4 – Dan Mountford

23 year old designer living in Brighton, England

Multidisciplinary freelance designer & graphic designer

Inspired by: Constructivist, dada and contemporary collage artists such as Lucy Nurnberg and James Gallagher.

Double Exposure Photography is the art of crossing over from image capture to Graphic Design. In Photography, double exposure or multiple exposures is the addition of multiple layers to create a single image.

Digital task – inspired by Andy Warhol

Use Adobe Photoshop as a tool to quickly manipulate and change photographs

Think about colours/filters/patterns that link to you!

Create a minimum of 2 different manipulated portraits.

Make sure you take note of the tolls/filters etc. that you are using.

Digital task – inspired by Dan Mountford

What is double or multiple exposure?:Double Exposure, or Multiple Exposure, is a photographic technique that combines 2 or more different images into a single image.

Use the help sheet to work through the task

Use your own portrait photographs and expose it with another image that links to your family/hobby/interests……