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Music
RESEARCH
 Create a spider diagram on the theme of music
 Musical instruments (violin, guitar, drums, harp)
Song lyrics, sketch things from them
 Pop and rock bands, or an orchestra
 Listen to music and sketch the mood and words
 People playing an instrument or listening to an ipod
Ideas
Style of artists: Cubism
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Today’s task:
 Create a montage on your theme.
 Look in magazines and newspapers
 Present the montage in an interesting way e.g.
carrying on a piece of a picture in the background,
leaving gaps and filling them with your own
sketches
 Use scissors and glue, or you can even tear it for an
interesting effect.
 Do it on A4 paper.
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Homework: by the next lesson
 Make a detailed sketch(es) of an object relevant to
the theme.
 Use a pencil, or coloured pencils, a biro or chalk.
 Do it on interesting paper.
 Enjoy!!
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How do you
think you can
sketch music?
RESEARCH
Images with kind permission of Ceri Richards
Sketching, photographs and collecting images from
music
 Musical instruments (violin, guitar, drums, harp)
 Song lyrics, sketch things from them
 Pop and rock bands, or an orchestra
 Listen to music and sketch the mood and words
 People playing an instrument or listening to an ipod
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If choosing the theme of MUSIC you must:
 Research into images,
patterns and pictures in
music.
 Research into the work of
artists and craftspeople
that use clay.
 Experiment with clay
processes and techniques.
 Create a piece of 3D clay
work as a finished piece.
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Wassily KANDINSKY
 An artist born in Russia, and one of the first to create pure abstract in
modern painting
 His forms evolved from fluid and organic to geometric, and, finally, to
pictographic
 Kandinsky used colour in an extremely theoretical way, linking tone
and quality (character of sound), shade with pitch, and saturation with
the amount of sound. He even maintained that when he saw colour he
heard music.
Click here to see
examples of the
artists work
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 Here, Kandinsky has moved from colour to form as
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the element in the composition that dominates most.
Now, contrast between forms gives the dynamic
balance of the work; the large circle in the upper left
plays against the network of precise lines in the right
hand part of the canvas.
Notice also how Kandinsky uses different colours
within the forms to energise his geometry:
The background also works to enrich the dynamic
nature of the composition.
The forms tend to recede and move forward within
this depth, creating an effect of dynamic pulling and
pushing.
‘Composition
VIII’
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CUBISM-Pablo PICASSO
 Present information about your second
artist just as in the first essay – by 28-11-11
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Cubism
 Cubism emphasises the importance of form over everything, including colour.
 Usually only black, brown and grey were used.
 It shows a subject in a geometric way, using shapes such as cylinders, cones and
cubes.
 Frequently images are changed so much that the image cannot be identified.
 Cubism and modern art were visual and came from the eye and the mind.
 Cubism is the division of a 3D form into a flat surface of colour and pattern.
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Juan Gris – Still life with a Guitar
Mae’r llun hwn yn y parth cyhoeddus gan fod yr hawlfraint arno wedi terfynu
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PABLO RUIZ PICASSO
 Pablo Picasso went through a number of phases during
his life when he employed a number of various artistic
styles to express the different emotions which he was
experiencing at the time, namely realism, cartoons, the
blue period the rose period and Cubism.
Girl with a
Mandolin
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Analytical Cubism
 By 1910 Picasso developed Cubism into analytical cubism.
 The objects were divided into components, and the parts
were put together so that the back and front were visible at
the same time.
 An object would be painted from different angles using
more the one light source.
 The aim of analytical cubism was to show
an image in a conceptual way, showing
The Guitar Player
facts also, rather than as a visual image.
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Other Cubism artists
 Braque
 Metzinger
 Gris
 Leger
 African culture, especially masks
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Creating COMPOSITION
 In today’s lesson you will:
 Create a series of different ideas for the composition of the
final piece namely ‘DRY POINT’ PRINTING
 This work will continue for at least the next 5 lessons
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 Today’s work will help you to decide what you will be doing
during the mock examination this year.
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Follow the steps below to create a series of ideas:
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Trace 4 different images or pictures out of the sketchbook
or from the A2 page.
Use A4 tracing paper and a black fineliner.
When you have traced the 4 images or pictures, turn the
tracing paper over and rub each line fairly hard with a
pencil.
Copy the images onto the piece of A2 paper in an
interesting way.
Experiment by repeating images, turning them on their
side or using only part of the image to create about 4
interesting compositions.
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COMPOSITION OF THE
FINAL PIECE
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