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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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ExcellenceThe 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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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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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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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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AchievedIn 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.