ST. THERESA GIRLS SECONDARY, MRIEHEL

HALF YEARLY – SCHOLASTIC YEAR 2015 / 2016

Form 4 ART TIME : Extended

INSTRUCTIONS TO STUDENTS

The examination will consist of three sections

Section A: Work from Observation (40 marks)

Section B: Imaginative Picture Making (40 marks)

Section C: Presentation of a Portfolio of Work ( 20 marks)

Read the questions carefully

You are expected that your work goes through the process of Investigation,

Documentation, Experimentation and Realization.

Preliminary studies are required to answer both Section A and Section B. Failure to present

sketches will lose you marks.

Section A – Compulsory

Section B – Answer one question

The question in Section B may be interpreted in any one of the following forms:

Painting in colour

Drawing in colour

Print making

Textiles

Collage

Three Dimensional Work

Any reference material from primary and secondary sources may be used, but mere copying

Is unacceptable.

SECTION A: Drawing or Painting from Observation

A selection of four objects from the list below is arranged before you

Cloth cereal box hammer

Large book clock ladle

Potted plant pot fruit

Wine bottle watering can rolling pin

Produce a painting or drawing of the group before you. Make sketches to understand the

organization of light and shadow, forms, colours and textures.

SECTION B: Composition from a Theme

The students are asked to consider the following as a starting point. Choose only one theme

and develop it into a final work.

Your work is expected to be the result of a creative process.

1. The Rain

2. Fruit Trees in the Garden of Dreams

3. Music

4. Zooming In!!

5. Pop Art in Today’s World

Use the pictures below as an idea of what artists have done in relation to the above

themes

THE RAIN

Raindrops Fantasy Art Print

by Kecky on Etsy

Anonymous

Rain on Grays Harbour Encaustic by Mary C

Farrenkopf

Gustave Caillebotte (French, Impressionism,

1848-1894): The Yerres, Rain; 1877

FRUIT TREES IN THE GARDEN OF DREAMS

In 1893, Monet, a passionate horticulturist,

purchased land with a pond near his

property in Giverny, intending to build

something "for the pleasure of the eye and

also for motifs to paint." The result was his

water-lily garden.

Fresco, garden painting with two birds,

Pompeii

Anonymous

Frederick Childe Hassam, illustration from

Island Garden about the garden made by

poet Celia Thaxter. She is the woman

centred in the doorway with a white bodice.

MUSIC

PABLO PICASSO - Three Musicians, 1921.

Cyril Rolando digital painter from France –

Surrealist Painting

Anonymous

Violins by Susanne Clarke

ZOOMING IN

Impressionistic Iris Illustrations - Pavel

Guzenko Renders Alluring Eyes in a

Classic Painting Style

Collections of sweets - zoom in for a close up

section? 'Liquorice Allsorts', Peter Slade.

Purple Leaves – Georgia O’Keeffe

Red Poppies – Georgia O’Keeffe

POP ART

Flying Fries – print by Ron Magnes

John Lennon by Andy Warhol. Warhol was a

leading figure in the contemporary visual art

movement known as pop art.

Marilyn Monroe by Lobo. Lobo is an artist

from Sao Paulo Brazil and he is passionate

about painting pop art. His style is pretty

solid, very bright mix of colours and

stencils of illustrations lead the eyes on

his amazing pieces.

Three Flags by Jasper Johns, 1958. Displayed in

Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.