Year 13 Exam Project Inside, Outside, In Between

Context or Environment

Louise Bourgeois

How would your perceptions change from looking at the giant spider inside and then outside of Tate Modern?

Damien Hirst

The Virgin MotherAnthony Gormley

Rachel Whiteread

Site specific art

Why was ‘House’ so controversial?

Why did it provoke such hostilities?

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

•Photography of simple images•On billboards to reach a wider audience•To share and communicate ideas•Poetic images•Presence and absence

Borders

Howard Hodgkin

Note how the painting continues onto the frames.

Perspective

Patrick Hughes

Effects of Light

Edward Hopper

Christian Boltanski

Francesca Woodman

Ruined buildings

John PiperAnselm Kiefer

The artist as OutsiderThe notion of the artist as an outsider has fuelled many ideas and narratives in art history.

What made Van Gogh an outsider?

Why was his genius not recognised in his life time?

“….artists careers are largely created and built on social and business connections not talent”

Discuss the above viewpoint.

The Artist as outsiderWhat factors made R.B Kitaj an outsider in Britain?

Why was his last major retrospective savaged by the critics? What were the effects of this?

Read the following article ‘RB Kitaj: an obsession with revenge’ and discuss.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/feb/10/rb-kitaj-obsessions-tate-war?INTCMP=SRCH

Portals

Van Eyck Velasquez

Doorways, windows, and mirrors have all been used by artists as devices to allow the viewer glimpses into secret places.

Self-Portraits

Look at self-portraits by Stanley Spencer and Lucian Freud.

Using a mirror Create self-portraits

showing different viewpoints.

Consider overall composition and mood.

Lucian Freud

Alternative lesson

Explore and experiment with self-portraits through photography and an empty picture frame.

Produce different studies from these in the sketchbook.

Linear and tonal drawing.

Homework

Stanley Spencer

2 pages of artist research and analysis on self-portraits by Stanley Spencer or Lucian Freud.

Complete a detailed self-portrait in your sketchbook as a response to one of these artists.

Drawing Natural objects

Make detailed studies of fruit, focusing on contrast between inner and outer surfaces.

Avigdor Arikha

Draw and paint prawns from direct observation. Focus on showing transparency: internal organs can be seen through their outer skins.

Drawing Natural objects

Alternative LessonCreate clay slabs and make impressions using natural objects.

Make similar impressions made of synthetic objects. Cast in plaster, or fire and glaze.

Link to the Boyle Family

Land art

View and discuss the work of Andy Goldsworthy.

Create work outside in response to this.

Document through photography.

Annotate pages to put the work in context.

Emerging

Rodin George Segal

Casting

Use a ball of clay to record an impression of the inside of closed hands.

Now cast hands closed in mod rock to create the outside.

Photograph both

outcomes.

Gabriel Orozco

George Segal

Gabriel Orozco

Homework•Displacements•Incidental moments•Element of chance•The Found object

2 pages of artist research on Gabriel Orozco.Focus on the meaning and intentions behind his work.Create your own response to his interventions and displacements using photography.

Alternative LessonLook at ‘Altneuland’ the photographs of Amit Sha’al.

Use found images of the school in black and white.

Hold them out and photograph them in perspective to create a similar illusion.

Outdoors

John Virtue

Peter Doig

David Hepher

George Shaw

Homework

2 pages of artist research on George Shaw.Focus on the meaning and intentions behind his work.Create your own response to his paintings inside and outside of your book. Work from photographs you have taken of a location.