a2 truth--fantasy-or-fiction-2016
TRANSCRIPT
A2 Art Exam Theme
TRUTH, FANTASY OR FICTION12 hour exam
EDEXCEL Externally Set Assignment
A210 weeks Preparatory Study
Period12 hours Timed Exam
+ 1 Week of Half Term and 2 Weeks at Easter
Some of you lost easy marks as you did not make the most of the start of your previous project:
- not thinking independently about your ideas- not fully exploring your mind map- not fully exploring your initial artists- not completing a full contact sheet for each idea
It is imperative that you pick a subtheme or subject matter you are happy to explore in more than one way. Then choose the direction you are most keen on and have a variety of ideas for.
Stay up-to-date with all set tasks and make sure you come to each lesson prepared with necessary materials and images (NO MORE SCREEN SHOTS!)You bring the ideas! – the exam unit is far more personal, fast paced, and ambitious than your coursework unit! Be brave!
Learning from before?
You are still responding to the 4 Assessment Objectives• AO1 - Develop your ideas through investigations informed by
contextual and other sources demonstrating analytical and cultural understanding
• AO2 - Refine your ideas through experimenting and selecting appropriate resources, media, materials, techniques and processes.
• AO3 - Record ideas, observations and insights relevant to your intentions in visual and/or other forms.
• AO4 - Present a personal, informed and meaningful response demonstrating analytical and critical understanding, realising intentions and where appropriate, making connections between visual, written, oral or other elements.
40% of final A2 mark
AO1: Developing ideas •Research should never stop. •Always look for new and/or more detail•Make sure you use all resources given
AO2: Experiment and Refine•Confidently use media that is appropriate to the theme/artist•Do it over and over to prove a developing skill in more than just one media. One task a week is not enough! •The more you produce, the better informed you will be in terms of skill, and the more developed your work will be.
What top tips can you think of for each objective?
AO3: Recording and technical skills •Make every contact sheet and enlargement count – think about your formal elements, composition, exposure, camera settings•Every mistake can drag your marks down so make these your strongest photos yet!•Presentation can help hide flaws and weaknesses – enlargements should be your best images, fill blank spaces on your weebly, etc.
AO4: Personal response •Try not to repeat similar ideas to what you have already created. •Be ambitious!•Leave yourself enough time and get organised at least 2 weeks before the exam date.
What top tips can you think of for each objective?
TRUTH, FANTASY OR FICTION
Some sub-categories to help you with your research and brainstorm:
life, death, interrogation, torture, war, intolerance• discovery, dissection, archaeology, astronomy, astrology• magnifying glasses, microscopes, binoculars, computers• mirrors, reflective surfaces, lights• love, trust, marriage, divorce, conciliations• synagogues, churches, mosques, cathedrals• conspiracy, slavery, politics, corruption, money, power• detectives, police, law, justice• science, maths, theories, measuring instruments, calculators, books• folk tales, myths, sagas, poems, tapestries
Truth
Richard Avedon Complex truths beneath the beautiful facade
Jill Greenberg – real emotions
Martin ParrObsessive pursuit of a “truthful” representation of British culture
Jenny Saville
Xu Zhen – “In just a blink of an eye”• Migrants in Manhattan’s China Town trapped in a suspension
between two different societies
Lorenzo Vitturi – “Dalston Anatomy”
Sam Taylor-WoodBorn March 4, 1967
Ansel AdamsMajesty of naturePart of “Group f/64” which was about relishing in the truth of photography
Irving PennExtraordinary in the mundane – changing our expectations and perceptions, Irving Penn’s still life images of cigarette butts and other discarded items, elevating objects from mundane to worthy of admiration.
Fantasy – “Human kind can only bear so much reality” TS Elliot
Perhaps we all eventually retreat towards a fantasy world, especially during times of stress.
Rene Magritte – “This is not a pipe”
Art is not truth. It is a lie that makes us realise truth. It is not reality but instead art models and examines what is real.
Paula Rego - psychological dramas
Filip Dujarden – Impossible Architecture
Anna Schuleit
Chrisse Macdonald
Jerry Ulesmann – surrealism and alternate realities
Erwin Blumenfeld – plays with perception and toys with our expectations
Duane Michals
Childhood Phobias
“The Boogeyman”
Jan Von Holleben – “dream of flying”
What did you dream of being as a child? Has it changed?
Stephen GillBlemises and mistakes, degenerating visual effects rather than photoshopping or airbrushing. There’s a truth to this process.
Jack Deane
Beth Thompson
Yin Yang
Sam Taylor Wood
Unknown
Yowa Yowa
Chris Scarborough
fiction
James Casbere
Fictional landscapes that are built and lit in a studio
Thomas Demand
Aaron SiskindIronic charm in cracked surfaces – inspired by Abstract Expressionism
Roman/ Greek sculptorsDepicting only perfections, ignoring flaws
Body Works Exhibition
Jeff WallThese photos are fake – they are actors that are being staged to represent our everyday lives and key moments that relate to our interactions. They pander to photography’s misleading “reality”
Rita BersteinDistressed weathered surfaces symbolise human relationships
Cornelia ParkerTwenty Years of Tarnish (wedding Presents) – pun to connote failing relationships
Gillian Wearing
John PfahlWhile making my "picture window" photographs, I came to think that every room was like a gigantic camera forever pointed at the same view. In the dictionary, of course, the word camera in Latin means chamber or room. I searched the country for these cameras and their views: the more unusual or picturesque, the better. It was often hard to tell from the outside what could be seen from the inside, so I was usually surprised when I discovered a scene in its new context. Strangers with puzzled looks were amazingly cooperative in letting me into their rooms with my photographic gear. They let me take down the curtains, wash the windows, and rearrange the furniture. Often, too, they expressed their desire to share their view with others, as if it were a nondepletable treasure.I liked the idea that my photographic vantage points were not solely determined by myself. They were predetermined by others, sometimes years earlier, and patiently waited for me to discover them.
William Henry Fox Talbot –Latticed window at Lacock Abbey, August 1835
The oldest photographic image ever found
A recurrent theme in the work of American artist Edward Hopper is the representation of both the inside and outside world in his paintings, perhaps alluding to something about the relationship between our ‘interior’ and ‘exterior’ lives & emotions.