AQA GCSE Art & Design Set Task
(Exam)
Development Work Planning PowerPoint
Starting Point 6: Close Up
How to use this PowerPoint
• Use this PP to plan and produce development
work for your exam project.
• You can always access it via the art website:
www.lbsart.weebly.com
• Green slides signal the start of a new stage in
your planning or sketchbook
Planning stages (green slides)
(Tip: Use these stages as titles in your sketchbook to help planning)
( You may decide to do some stages in a different order)
(Think about how long each stage will take and plan your time carefully)
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AO3 - Brainstorm the starting point
AO1 – Artist and cultural investigations
AO3 - Early intentions and ideas
AO3 - Primary & Secondary recording
AO1 – Investigations from other sources
AO2 – Using materials to refine ideas
AO4 – Final design
AO4 – Final outcome (in 10 hour exam)
Useful links
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/ar
t/
• http://collectives.tate.org.uk/
• http://www.tate.org.uk/art
1. AO3 - Brainstorm the starting point
CLOSE UP
Artists are sometimes inspired by the idea of close up views of their subject. For
example, the Boyle Family, Robert Cottingham, Alison Watt and the photographer
Andreas Feininger have created unusual and sometimes abstract work from close –
up views.
Research appropriate sources and create your own response
Produce a brainstorm for the theme that uses word association to generate ideas.
(GRADE
A / A*)on the next slide to inspire you...
Use
the images
A highly developed ability to fluently and skilfully record ideas and insights relevant to
intentions
(GRADE B)
A consistent ability to skilfully record ideas and insights relevant to intentions
(GRADE C)
A generally consistent ability to effectively record ideas and insights relevant to
intentions
Examples of
brainstorms..
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2. AO1 - Artist investigations
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Investigate and analyse at least 2 of the artists given in the exam starting points.
Use reliable internet sources and if possible books and other sources
Use quality images, drawings and annotations using the 4 headings
(GRADE A / A*)
A confident and highly developed ability to
demonstrate analytical and cultural
understanding
(GRADE B)
A consistent ability to demonstrate analytical
and cultural understanding
(GRADE C)
A generally consistent ability to demonstrate
analytical and cultural understanding
TOP TIP:
Take care with presentation and the
spelling, punctuation and grammar
of written work.
Use the annotation help sheets to
extend your vocabulary
The Boyle Family
• http://www.boylefamily.co.uk/index.html
Boyle Family is a group of
collaborative artists based in
London. They are perhaps most
well known for their Earth
studies.
These pictures - highly accurate
painted casts that operate
somewhere between painting
and sculpture - involve the
meticulous re-creation of
randomly chosen areas of the
Earth's surface using resin and
fibreglass (as well as real
materials from the site)
Robert Cottingham
• http://www.tandempress.wisc.edu/artists/cot
tingham/cottingham.html
Robert Cottingham
Robert Cottingham is
considered to be one of most
important original Photorealist
painters. Cottingham's work
focuses on items associated as
Americana. He studied art at
Brooklyn's Pratt Institute
Alison Watt
• http://www.inglebygallery.com/artists/alisonwatt/
Alison Watt OBE is a
Scottish painter, born
in Greenock on 11
December 1965. Alison
Watt graduated from
Glasgow School of Art
in 1988.
Her first works to
become well known
were dryly painted
figurative canvases,
often female nudes, in
light filled interiors.
Host
2006-2007
oil on
canvas
14ft x 10ft
Andreas Feininger
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=e
n-GB&v=LXGua_YjiUg
Andreas Bernhard Lyonel
Feininger was a German
American photographer, and
writer on photographic
technique
He is well known for his
dynamic black-and-white
scenes of Manhattan and
studies of the structure of
natural objects.
3. AO3 - Early intentions and ideas
-Choose an area of your brainstorm to focus on
- Make written notes about your early intentions for the project and what
you hope to achieve by the end. (This plan may change!)
- Use the 4 headings and also include:
-Objects you want to record visually
-Artists and other sources you want to investigate
CLOSE -UP
TOP TIP:
You could include some small
thumbnail drawings to show your
idea visually
Content
Process
Meaning
Purpose
Suggested themes for Close up
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Cut open fruit and vegetables
Close ups of machinery and mechanical parts
Close ups of musical instruments from strange angles
Close ups of leaves and natural forms
4. AO3 - Primary and Secondary Recording
You must now find appropriate objects and items to record from. The main
ways you will do this will be through observational drawing and photography.
Record from primary sources first and move onto secondary sources if
necessary…
(GRADE A / A*)
A highly developed ability to fluently and skilfully record observations relevant to
intentions
(GRADE B)
A consistent ability to skilfully record observations relevant to intentions
(GRADE C)
A generally consistent ability to effectively record observations relevant to intentions
Observational drawing
Success Criteria:
-Quality tonal shading
-High contrast
- Interesting and unusual compositions
- Zooming in and cropping
Photography
Success Criteria:
-Interesting and unusual
compositions
-Appropriate themes
- Zooming in and cropping
- Pattern and texture
5. AO1 - Investigations from other sources
• You must extend your investigations by using other sources of
information
• This could include other artists, a visit to a gallery or a local place of
interest related to your theme
• Record your investigations using photography, drawings, collected items
and written notes.
TOP TIP:
Always refer to your intentions,
state why you have investigated a
source, how will it help with your
final piece?
6. AO2 - Using materials to refine ideas
(GRADE A / A*)
A highly developed ability to thoughtfully
refine ideas through purposeful and
discriminating selection of appropriate
materials and techniques
(GRADE B)
A consistent ability to thoughtfully refine
ideas through purposeful selection of
appropriate materials and techniques
(GRADE C)
A generally consistent ability to effectively
refine ideas through experimenting and
selecting appropriate materials and
techniques
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Choose appropriate materials to
develop your ideas
See the next slide for ideas about
materials
Re-visit and refine your
experimental pieces up to the
highest standard possible.
TOP TIP:
Use materials that you have used
before and are confident with!
Never spend more time writing
about your practical work than
doing it!
Using materials
The list below shows what you should have covered in your GCSE Art
Remember to use materials that you are confident with already...
2D
Pencil
Fineliner / Pen
Charcoal / Pastel
Watercolours
Acrylic Paints
Collage
Polystyrene Printing
Lino Printing
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/art
/video/
3D
Card Relief
Wire / card sculpture
Clay slab
Clay coil / pinch pot
Glazing techniques
TOP TIP:
The link below takes you to GCSE
Bitesize and useful practical videos
for 2D and 3D techniques
7. AO4 – Final Design
• Produce a quality final design for your final piece
• This should be a refined drawing of how your 2D / 3D piece will look
• Make notes using the 4 headings
TOP TIPS:
Highlight how your final piece will realise your
intentions
(GRADE A / A*)
A highly developed ability to present an
imaginative, personal, informed and
meaningful response when realising
intentions.
(GRADE B)
A consistent ability to present an personal,
informed and meaningful response when
realising intentions.
(GRADE C)
A generally consistent ability to effectively
present an personal, informed and
meaningful response when realising
intentions.
Highlight links and connections to artist work
that you have looked at..
Final Design
CONTENT
PROCESS
MEANING
PURPOSE