NCEA Level 3 - Visual Arts 2010
Examples of Candidate Work –
90669 Printmaking
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Excellence
Panel one clearly defines the proposition and generates ideas derived from the
concept of smoking, in particular the social obligations and immense pressure that
surrounds smoking among 21st century youth. There is an intelligent engagement of
study as ideas are shown to be contained within technical and expressive drawing
styles, demonstrating sophisticated understanding of picture making, collaged surface
and composition.
The integrated use of the anatomical subject matter including existing tobacco
advertisements/packaging has been analysed and clarified through ideas. This has
been done by juxtaposing figure(s) and grid while exploring pictorial devices such as
scale, line, colour, and texture. There is a high degree of control demonstrated in the
selection and management of the formal properties employed.
There is clear technical fluency of printmaking methods that combine techniques with
purpose and in-depth understanding, including registration and printing. Restraints in
the use of a yellow oxide tobacco colour show subtle tonal shifts. Compositions set up
interesting relationships and ambiguities of the figure, internally and externally with
an androgyny to depreciate the idea that smoking is masculine, elegant and sexual.
Panel three continues to analyse and critically re-evaluate. This is demonstrated as
advanced, mature understanding of the depth and breadth that the proposition offers,
through large scale works. The pictorial direction has been clarified and this provides
further options for the production of new work. The work has resulted from a
thorough study and careful selection of ideas from a variety of artistic references such
as Dieter Roth, Will Handley, Robert Motherwell, Kiki Smith, William Kentridge and
Larry Rivers.
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Excellence
The drawing on panel one of this portfolio clearly defines the proposition undertaken and
establishes the concept of dog abuse investigating dogs training for fighting and dogs that
don’t live normal lives; being chained up, living in small cages in filthy conditions. Many
prints explore the aggressiveness of animals being beaten, including torture and starvation
by humans. There is a comprehensive engagement of study and ownership in the selection
of ideas with drawing being playful, dramatic, purposeful and in-depth.
The integrated use of subject matter of dogs and humans analyses and clarifies ideas
through juxtaposition of figure/s and dogs in space through pictorial devices such as line,
tone and texture to express aggression.
There is a clear fluency of the printmaking method mono-printing which demonstrates
purpose and thorough understanding, including colour mixing, use of light and dark tone
and expressive mark making The use of colour has been deliberately selected to link to the
human/handler wanting to enhance the dogs aggressiveness. Compositions have set up
intelligent relationships between figure, space and the position of the dog/s. This candidate
demonstrates an advanced mature understanding of printmaking processes used and ideas
have been successfully evaluated throughout this submission.
The work has resulted from a thorough study and careful selection of ideas from a variety
of artistic and stylistic references such as Francisco Goya, Medieval Prints, James Ensor,
Grayson Perry and Edward Munch. Through the appropriate selection of artistic
references, the candidate has been able to demonstrate a depth and range of picture making
ideas complimented by a meaningful use of established practice. Many works extend
beyond establish practice, selecting and using appropriate elements into a synthesis that is
the candidate’s own.
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Merit
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Merit
The drawing in this submission has been purposefully generated and appropriate
imagery has been selected from photographs and other various sources to define the
proposition that investigates ideas about body/self image, capitalism, perfection and
mass consumption. These drawings have developed a range of pictorial ideas which
analyse expressive mark-making, collage with found imagery and cigarette
packaging and these have been further clarified into engaging social messages about
self image.
The collage method, in collaboration with the repeated but manipulated image,
shows very good control of printmaking techniques. There is good knowledge and
understanding of various Pop artists (such as Roy Lichtenstein’s works) which have
been extended into the candidate’s own ideas. The colour selection used enhances
and develops the proposition centred on beauty and self image.
A systematic and critical approach has focused on the development of pictorial ideas
and relationships shared between text and appropriated imagery. These relationships
lift and enhance the work from the device of repetition, into works of
advertising/billboards and the mass consumption of coca-cola on panel three.
With the pictorial ideas evident, more could have been regenerated from a broader
in-depth drawing base and greater technical fluency would be required to gain
Excellence.
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Merit
In this submission drawing has been used to purposefully generate information and
ideas about the relationship between the deer hunt to the deer shoot. Composition
shows a depth of ideas about deer shooting through the repeated target motif. Analysis
and clarification of picture making concerns can be seen in some of the more
developed works on panels two and three. Flat repeated circular forms and blocks of
colour have been used to establish and isolate parts of the deer and deer head, to
suggest the ultimate target.
Many printmaking techniques have been used with understanding of their processes.
Formal devices drive the proposition; silhouettes, repetition and line of various deer
profiles, guns and targets. Colour has been well considered with the use of green tones
and reds purposefully linking to the candidate’s proposition.
This submission develops systematically and ideas have been analysed to enable the
movement into new compositions which explore a juxtaposition of flat planes of
colour, contrasting shapes and silhouettes. Pictorial ideas develop through to a more
formal arrangement of interlocking forms and targets to convey ideas about deer
hunting and shooting.
A range of established practice has been researched in-depth to inform techniques and
ideation including Jasper Johns, Shane Cotton and Andy Warhol. The decision making
about pictorial ideas and choice of colour conclude the selection and demonstrate an
understanding of the artistic references.
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Achieved
In this submission drawing studies have generated and developed a range of
information and ideas about nature and butterflies. These have been represented
through juxtapositions of flowers, vases, pattern and butterflies on panel one, using
various techniques such as dry point, frottage and stencilling where imagery and
surface are repeated and overlapped.
There has been a consistent approach employed to print techniques using images and
patterns layered over one another as a compositional device to develop and clarify
ideas in two and three dimensions.
The investigation of ideas centred on the repeated forms of nature has been thought
through and understood and has resulted in a logical and linear development of ideas.
Ideas continue to be re-generated in the final panel through new pictorial devices and
compositions.
The pictorial ideas generated analyse the relationship between the nature of flowers,
their connection with particular forms and repeated patterns that have been clarified
into simple and effective prints. There is knowledge and understanding of specific
conventions, which have been developed into the candidate’s own work.
This portfolio may have benefited from more in-depth drawing on a broader range of
subject matter and research to provide new ideas and options within compositions for
later panels and therefore would not have had to been so heavily reliant on using the
same pictorial devices repeatedly.
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Achieved
In this portfolio the drawing skills used to record information on panel one shows a
variety of compositional arrangements investigating the concept of life and death,
young and old while the generative drawings that follow show sufficient evidence of
clarifying and regenerating ideas. The ideas explored on panels two and three
analyse the concept of ‘aging through the use of repetition’, by the placement of
positive and negative portraits conveying various gestures and expressions. The
journey from youth to old age and eventually death has been demonstrated through
manipulative processes with colour, in particular red and the juxtaposition of various
portraits.
Selected drawing and printmaking methods are appropriate to purpose and
demonstrate knowledge of the characteristics and constraints of the chosen print
processes. The print works clarify and regenerate ideas where there is a limited range
of pictorial devices being investigated, from repetition of portraits through to the
deterioration of the image with experimentation of colour.
All works are related, despite some of the same images being used over and over
again, however there is evidence that ideas have been evaluated with decisions made
to explore the relationships between many pictorial elements.
Ideas have been developed logically through selected forms of established practice,
in particular the work of Kathe Kollwitz and Jim Dine that has informed the
development of ideas and appropriate selection of printmaking methods.
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