SECONDARY SCHOOLSHALF YEARLY EXAMINATIONS 2016/2017

FORM: 4 ART and DESIGN 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. Clocks

2. Boats

3. Reflections

4. Childhood

5. Butterflies and Birds

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

CLOCKS

The Persistence of Memory – 1931

SALVADOR DALI

Conversation Around Fish

JAMES C. CHRISTENSEN

Everything Flows

SOPHIA MICHAILIDOU

Time and Space – 1973

SALVADOR DALI

BOATS

Old Boat

VENY on ETSY

Fishing Boats on the Beach at Les Saintes – Maries – De – La – Mer – 1888

Vincent Van Gogh

Sailing Boat Argenteuil – 1873

CLAUDE MONET

Sailing Boat with Reflection in the Water – 1908

EGON SCHIELE

REFLECTIONS

Claude Monet

Morning on the Seine

1878

Georgia O’ Keefe

Lake George Reflections

1922

Astrid Bruning

Late Autumn Days

Graham Grecken

Childhood

BrandonDaArtistEloise Wilkin

Sveta Dorosheva

Kristy Patterson

Butterflies and Birds

Lindsay Dale

Sascalia

Hilke Macintyre Corticelli XIX 1899