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Art Exam 2014
You have a choice
of questions to
take as your
starting point for
this years exam.
These are:
1. Openings
2. Disguise
3. Atmostpheres
4. Edges
5. Arrangements
6. Texture
7. Fragments
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The appearance & tactile nature of surfaces sometimes inspires artists,
designers & craftspeople.
Frank Auerbach develops urban landscapes & portraits in dense layers of paint,
creating textured surfaces.
The work of ceramicist Anne Goldman is inspired by the surfaces of rocks in
the desert canyons of California.
Amarjeet Nandhra combines print, mixed media & stitch as she explores the
textures seen in deteriorating surfaces.
Clay Ketter has used painting, mixed media & photography to explore textured
surfaces.
Research appropriate sources & produce your own work in response to
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Frank Auerbach
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Frank Auerbach develops urban
landscapes & portraits in dense
layers of paint, creating textured
surfaces.
Frank Auerbach
6- Texture 14
Frank Auerbach develops
urban landscapes &
portraits in dense layers of
paint, creating textured
surfaces.
Frank Auerbach
Frank Auerbach develops
urban landscapes & portraits
in dense layers of paint,
creating textured surfaces.
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Frank Auerbach
6- Texture 14
Frank Auerbach
develops urban
landscapes &
portraits in dense
layers of paint,
creating textured
surfaces.
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Here an art student works in Frank
Auerbach’s style applying dense layers
of paint, creating textured surfaces
over her own face
Frank Auerbach
Frank Auerbach
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Anne Goldman
The work of ceramicist Anne Goldman is
inspired by the surfaces of rocks in the desert
canyons of California.
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Anne Goldman
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The work of ceramicist Anne Goldman is inspired by the
surfaces of rocks in the desert canyons of California.
Amerjeet Nandhra
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Amarjeet Nandhra combines print,
mixed media & stitch as she
explores the textures seen in
deteriorating surfaces.
Amerjeet Nandhra
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Amarjeet Nandhra combines
print, mixed media & stitch
as she explores the textures
seen in deteriorating
surfaces.
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Clay Ketter has used
painting, mixed
media &
photography to
explore textured
surfaces.
Clay Ketter
Clay Ketter has used painting, mixed media & photography
to explore textured surfaces.
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Clay Ketter
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Clay Ketter has used
painting, mixed
media &
photography to
explore textured
surfaces.
Clay Ketter was first
acknowledged for his
Wall Paintings (1992-99),
plasterboards with
spackle over screws and
joints. They were both
strikingly beautiful
abstract paintings and a
sort of fabricated readymades, less finished than
the wall they were hung
on.
Clay Ketter
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Trace Paintings (1995-) is
another series of paintings
that resemble wall surfaces
being redecorated. Traces of
wallpaper, shelves and
electric wiring evoke a sense
of uncertainty in the onlooker
as to whether this is a real
wall or a painting of a wall.
Combining consistency and
innovation, Clay Ketter has
continued to produce works
in the borderland between
architecture, sculpture and
painting. The variation
between media including
painting, photography and
sculpture are complex, but
his works are always visually
arresting, with their terse
composition and sensitive
shift of colour.
Clay Ketter
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Clay Ketter’s
relationship to
scale and
impact
incorporates
him in an
American
painterly
tradition that
started in
abstract
expressionism
and developed
into
minimalism.
Clay Ketter
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Clay Ketter has used painting, mixed media
& photography to explore textured
surfaces.
Clay Ketter
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The artist Clay Ketter is one of Sweden’s greatest US imports. He was born in 1961 in
Connecticut and studied in New York, but has been living on the plains of Scania in
southern Sweden for more than 20 years now. It was in Sweden he had his
breakthrough in the mid-90s, with Wall Paintings, a sort of ready-made created with
gypsum wallboards, with tape and spackle. Before then, he had worked as a
carpenter and craftsman. His international career took off and he is currently featured
with a solo exhibition at the Sonnabend Gallery in New York.
Surface textures can be
seen and felt.
6. Texture
The Dutch Still
life painters of
the 17th Century
attempted to
truthfully record
the exact detail
of a surfaces
texture.
Artists often create surfaces
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that exploit textures in paint
or other media
Black Queen by Hew Locke
Lucien Freud’s portrait
Texture
These two 20th
Century artists
create very
textured
surfaces in
their portraits
of the Queen.
Freud
consistently
explores flesh
with textured
brushstrokes.
How has Hew created the Queens portrait here?
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The surface of
this famous face
has been made
using a collage
of thousands of
photographs
mosaiced
together.
These
surfaces
appeal in
both a
visual &
tactile way
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Gaudi
mosaics
together
thousands of
fragments
of tiny
broken
tiles.
Kirsten Glass not only paints the
appearance of different textures…
she also uses the texture of paint
dripping, splodging & cascading
to communicate what she
intends to the viewer.
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Edgar Degas creates the
most beautiful surfaces
with strokes of pastels.
Bare flesh shimmers under
spotlights, but even the
background is lovingly
considered.
Every media creates
textures which artists use
to their advantage to
communicate to the viewer.
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Raoul Haussmann
used photographs
cut from magazines
& newspapers to
create realistic
textures in this
unlikely surrealist
collage.
The head is made
from found 3-D
objects. A
technique used by
other Dada artists…
This abstract composition is called an assemblage – this is the
term given to artworks composed out of found objects.
It was created by Kurt Schwitters
who for a while worked in
1. Surfaces
Ambleside in the 1920’s.
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Joseph Cornall also
created assemblages
out of boxes filled with
found objects and
images instead of
painting.
He worked in the 1920’s,
long before Pop Artists
started to create similar
sculptures in the 1960’s.
Inspired by the
assemblages of
Dada artists, Kurt
Schwitters and
Joseph Cornall…
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…Pop Artist Robert
Rauchenberg created a
stir when he exhibited
this sculpture made
from junk.
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Bruce Grey creates his
assemblages out of junk metal.
Bruce Grey
Very poignant in todays world
where there is an urgent need
to recycle.
Potter & sculptors sometimes
create textured surfaces in
their work.
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an artist…
…inspired by Art Nouveau
studies the pattern in
the kiwi…
… & creates unique
vessels…
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A GCSE student…
…inspired by the artist…
…creates a fantastic vessel…
…from studying a
pomegranate.
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Louise Hibbert
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Sarah Parker- Eaton
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Giacometti
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Archimboldo
A variety of materials can be
combined in embroidery,
mosaics & weaving making
contrasting surfaces.
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1. Surfaces
a decorative Art & Design
movement
involved painters like
Klimt in Vienna
& architects like
Anton Gaudi in
Barcelona
1890’s to 1920’s
Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau
Gustav Klimt
1. Surfaces
Here is some of
Gaudi’s work
he used broken
bits of tile &
china
to decorate the
surfaces of his
buildings
& parks.
Gates and banisters
twist like organic
forms in the Art
Nouveau style.
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Alphonse Mucha was a famous
Art Nouveau Designer
The Kiss 1909
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You could
study the
surface
patterns of
Art Nouveau
Artists &
Designers
like Klimt,
Mucha and
Gaudi before
taking them
into your
work…
The surface pattern
you develop should
be strongly influenced
by the artwork you
collect.
You may consider
making and applying
surface pattern to a
whole range of
designed objects of
which you would
execute one:
e.g. you could apply pattern to… vessels
made out of mudroc (like in your yr 10
project)… to silk… to stained glass… to a
product bag… to a relief mirror… to
teapots… there is no limit…
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…to chunky jewellery…
…even to clothing worn
as jewellery…