year 9 2011 natural forms boards
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Natural Forms
Year 9
GCSE: Assessment ObjectivesAO1: RESEARCH – IMAGES & ARTISTS
Develop your ideas through investigations informed by contextual and other
sources, demonstrating analytical and cultural understanding.
AO2: EXPERIMENTS WITH MEDIA
Refine your ideas through experimenting and selecting appropriate resources,
media, materials, techniques and processes.
AO3: IDEAS, OBSERVATIONAL DRAWINGS & EXPLANATIONS
Record ideas, observations and insights relevant to your intentions in visual
and/or other forms.
AO4: FINAL IDEA & FINAL PIECE, LINKS WITH ARTISTS
Present a personal, informed and meaningful response demonstrating
analytical and critical understanding, realising intentions and making
connections between visual or other elements.
• Natural forms are objects in nature in their original form.
• Examples:-
What are Natural Forms?
What are Natural Forms?
• Natural forms are objects in nature in their original form.
• Examples:-
• Leaves, flowers, pine cones, seaweed, shells, bones, insects, stones, fossils, crystals, feathers, birds, fish, animals – in fact anything you can find in nature – complete or part of it.
Some key words...
CompositionForm.
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TextureNature
Natural Form Artist BoardsAO1
For your Year 9 project you are going to be creating an Artist board researching Artists that use Natural Forms in their work.
AO2
You are also going to be experimenting with different medias using pencil, paint and print.
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Mono-chrome
The first Artist you need to research should be an Artist that works primarily in Mono-chrome. You are going to create your own transcription in addition to finding out facts and adding your opinions on their work.
Karl Blossfeldt 1865-1932
• Karl Blossfeldt is best known for his beautiful photographs of plant forms.
• Originally, the photographs were intended to be used as teaching aids and making sculptures, but became popular when a selection of his photographs were published in the book Urformen der Kunst (Archetypes of Art) in 1928.
Plate # 56: Aspidium filix mas (magnified 4 times)Photogravure, printed in 1928.
Plate # 76: Eranthis cilicica (magnified 8 times)Photogravure, printed in 1928.
Karl Blossfeldt
Plate # 77: Cephalaria (magnified 10 times)Photogravure, printed in 1928.
Plate # 92: Acanthus mollis (magnified 4 times)Photogravure, printed in 1928.
Karl Blossfeldt
Photogravures Urformen der Kunst 1929
Karl Blossfeldt
Photogravures Urformen der Kunst 1929
Karl Blossfeldt
Edward Weston 1886-1958Weston explored natural form through black and white photography.
Pepper, 1930negative, Cole Weston printShell, 1927 Vintage gelatin silver print
(to the right) Carefully broken pebblesscratched white with another stoneSt. Abbs, Scotland1 June 1985
Andy GoldsworthyAndy Goldsworthy is a British artist who works with nature, natural form and the natural environment to make his creations.
1956 - present
Peter Randall-Page is an extraordinary British sculptor and visual artist whose connection to nature began in the Sussex countryside. For Randall-Page, organic forms are places to begin, shapes that push the artist to explore his own response to them.
Three Fruit , Kilkenny limestone, 1986
Peter Randall-Page 1954 - Present
Three Graces 1994 ,Etching on paper
Peter Randall-Page
Drawings for Overbecks, pen and ink, 1990
Peter Randall-Page
Painting
The second Artist you need to research should be an Artist that works primarily with paint. You are going to create your own transcription in addition to finding out facts and adding your opinions on their work.
Georgia O’Keefe 1887-1986
• O’Keefe was an American artist who lived in the arid Arizona desert.
• She painted still life natural forms of objects found around in her environment.
Red Poppy, Oil Painting, 1927
• O’Keefe’s paintings are beautifully contoured forms, realistically painted but using unusual combinations of objects.
• She expertly painted subtle tones and colours.
Ram's Skull, Oil Painting, 1935
Georgia O’Keefe
Yayoi Kusama 1929 - present
• Kusama is a Japanese American artist who works in a wide variety of media and techniques – prints, sculptures and installations.
• Her starting point is often natural form.
PUMPKIN (TOTW) Acrylic on canvas 2003
Raoul Dufy
Strauß Aronstab 1939
Dufy was a French Fauvist painter. He developed a colourful, decorative style that became fashionable for designs and ceramics.
1877 - 1953
Paul Cezanne Paul Cézanne was a French Post- Impressionist painter. 1839 -1906
Still Life with Apples, Oil Painting 1890
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Henri MatisseHenri Matisse was a French artist, known for his use of colour. He was a draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter.
1869 - 1954
La Gerbe, one of Matisse's latest works (1953).
Henri Matisse
"Irises” Oil Painting 1889
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work has far-reaching influence on 20th Century art due to its vivid colours and emotional impact.
1953 - 1890
Flight of the Magnolia, Oil on Canvas, 1944
Paul Nash Paul Nash was an English landscape painter, surrealist and war artist. Here is one of his ‘natural surrealism’ pieces inspired by found objects
1889 - 1846
Juan Cotan
Born in Orgaz, Spain. He is a painter who is considered one of the pioneers of Baroque realism in Spain. A profoundly religious man, he is best known for his still lifes, which in their visual harmony and illusion of depth convey a feeling of humility and mystic spirituality.
Still Life with Dead Birds, Fruit and Vegetables, Detail, 1602
1561 - 1627
Still life with Game Fowl,Vegetables and Fruit 1602
Juan Cotan
Still life of a tulip, a melon and flowers on a ledge, Oil Painting
Rachel Ruysch
1664 - 1750
Rachel Ruysch was a Dutch artist who specialized in still-life paintings. She was one of three significant female artists in Dutch Golden Age painting.
Psalm 27: Hirst's butterfly and enamel paint on canvas
Damien Hirst
1965 to present
Hirst explores the uncertainty at the core of human experience; love, life, death, loyalty and betrayal through unexpected and unconventional media.
"Happy Head No 7,” gloss household paint on resin skull and wooden base, 9 1/2 by 9 by 9 1/2 inches, 2007
Damien Hirst
'Study of Roses', 1976 Acrylic on canvas
Patrick Caulfield1936 – 2005
Patrick Caulfield was an English painter and printmaker.
In the early 1960s Caulfield’s painting was characterised by flat images and objects paired with angular geometric devices. He adopted the technique of the sign painter simplifying objects to a basic black.
Print-making
The third Artist you need to research should be an Artist that works primarily with print. You are going to create your own transcription in addition to finding out facts and adding your opinions on their work.
Patrick Caulfield
Fruit and Bowl, Print (Screen Print) 1979-1980
1936 – 2005
Patrick Caulfield was an English painter and printmaker.
In the early 1960s Caulfield’s painting was characterised by flat images and objects paired with angular geometric devices. He adopted the technique of the sign painter simplifying objects to a basic black.
Andy Warhol
"Flowers” - 1964 - 1970 printing Serigraph
Warhol used bright flat colours in his images. He changes the colours to create his own individual piece of Art work.
Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as ‘Pop Art’
1928 – 1987
Flower For Tacoma DomeScreenprint on Lenox Museum Board. 1982
Andy Warhol
Kiku, 1983
Andy Warhol
Pivoine, flowers, woodcut print, japanese, butterfly, 1800s, 1900s,
Katsushika Hokusai 1760 –1849
Hukusai was a Japanese painter and printmaker of the Edo period. He was one of Japan’s leading experts on Chinese painting. He his best known for his woodblock print series
The Great Wave Off Kanagawa From "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji"; 1823-29, Color woodcut,
Katsushika Hokusai
Sky & Water I, woodcut, 1938
M.C Esher
Esher was a Dutch graphic artist. He is best known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs and mezzotints.
1898 - 1972
1966 Screenprint
Paul Morrison 1966 - present
Melanie Wickhan - present
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http://www.melaniewickham.co.uk/index.php
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