AQA UNIT 2 EXAMContextual Study Skills

Evidencing high quality skills. Imaginative research skills.

Evidencing high quality skills. Imaginative research skills. Regular gallery visits evident.

Evidencing high quality skills. Imaginative research skills. Regular gallery visits evident. Highly focussed and relevant

analysis.

Evidencing high quality skills. Imaginative research skills. Regular gallery visits evident. Highly focussed and relevant

analysis. Insightful annotation.

Evidencing high quality skills. Imaginative research skills. Regular gallery visits evident. Highly focussed and relevant

analysis. Insightful annotation. Thorough grasp of photographic

conventions.

Evidencing high quality skills. Imaginative research skills. Regular gallery visits evident. Highly focussed and relevant

analysis. Insightful annotation. Thorough grasp of photographic

conventions. Can think conceptually.

Evidencing high quality skills. Imaginative research skills. Regular gallery visits evident. Highly focussed and relevant analysis. Insightful annotation. Thorough grasp of photographic

conventions. Can think conceptually. Self directed, independent

investigations.

Evidencing high quality skills. Imaginative research skills. Regular gallery visits evident. Highly focussed and relevant analysis. Insightful annotation. Thorough grasp of photographic

conventions. Can think conceptually. Self directed, independent

investigations.

Evidencing high quality skills

Evidence of learning from the work of others.

Evidencing high quality skills

Evidence of learning from the work of others.

Ideas/techniques are developed in own practice.

Lewis Baltz

Born 1945 in California His work looks at American suburbia

and in particular industrial parks. His photographs are concerned with

ratios and proportional systems (like architecture).

The compositions are a form of ‘minimalism’ the content of the work is the arrangement of shapes and space.

Reminds us of:-

Sean Scully

Sean Scully

Rut Blees Luxembourg

Describe what you are looking at.............. Genre (documentary, landscape, portrait, still

life, experimental or a mixture?. Format (digital, film, cinema, painting) &

size? Colour – Colour palette? How has

Luxembourg emphasised/selected/altered colour?

Tone – contrasty, tonal? Composition/framing. How are shapes or

object distributed over the frame? Lighting – natural, artificial, harsh, direction?

What can you see?

Scale – is scale used as idea in the work?

Space – is there a sense of space or lack of a sense of space (eg highly cropped)?

Shapes, pattern, ‘rythmn’ within the frame.

Surface/texture – rough, accentuated by side light, smooth, shiney, mixture?

What dos you know?

How is it done photographically?

Camera angle, viewpoint – face on, tilted?

Focal point – central, side, several focal points?

Depth of focus – shallow or deep? Movement – blurred or ‘frozen’

(shutter speed)? Manipulated in darkroom or digitally?

What do you think?

What is it about?

Subject matter? Theme? How does it fit into a genre or type of work? Why this choice of location/subject matter? Why this work selected? Visual idea/suggestion/possibility? What does it remind you of? Who could the work be intended for?

Where might you see this work? Does it link to other artists’ works you can

think of ? How? Why?

Rut Blees Luxembourg

Born 1967 Germany Based in London. Her work is mostly taken at night

using ambient light only. She uses a tripod and will leave the

shutter open for about 10 minutes. This has the effect also of ‘erasing’ any passing people, increasing the sense of space and ‘loneliness’ of the image.

Your contextual study task Select 1 main artist and 2 to 6

supporting artists to research and analyse.

Download images to illustrate your analysis and insights.

If relevant include your own sketches, diagrams and transcriptions (try outs).

Arrange this over 2 x A2 pages minimum.

Follow the guidelines above and in course booklet to analyse. Deadline 29th Feb