GCSE Fine Art Exam2013

1. GCSE Fine Art Exam2013 Question 7 Movement

2. The question You should make connections with appropriate sources when developing your personal response to one of the following suggestions. a) Develop your own interpretation of the starting point movement. b)You could explore the movement of animals or people c) You could create work which actually moves

3. Unpacking the question • Making connections with appropriate sources = artists. • Only do a) or b) you have no experience of c) and you would not be able to demonstrate what you have learnt so far.

4. WHO IS IT GOOD FOR? • Those who enjoy sport/dance • Those who like machines • Those who want to draw animals or people • Those who want to focus on movement in nature- storms, sea, volcanoes etc

5. Possible Artists – The Futurists • It was an Italian movement which spread quickly throughout Europe including Russia • The poet FilippoTommaso Marinetti (1876-1944) ‘invented it’ in 1908 with a Manifesto • Most influential artists Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916), Luigi Russolo (1885-1947) and Carlo Carra (1881-1966), GiacomoBalla (1871-1958) and Gino Severini (1883-1965)

6. Futurist ideas • Celebrated the new technology – car, machinery and science, and war as a means of changing the old order • Idea that new technologies overturned what had gone before and there needed to be new, bolder art forms

7. Futurist ideas • Emphasis on movement and the dynamic - Idea of everything moving and images appearing and disappearing on the retina and capturing that – action passing through the centre of a painting

8. Style • Painting influenced by the ideas of colour divisionism • Also influenced by Cubism and Picasso and the idea of dividing up shapes to show different viewpoints and movement

9. Although Duchamp was not part of the movement his painting showing the movement of a man walking down the stairs was influential. Photography had made it possible to identify each stage of a movement. You could use photography well in this project Duchamp – Nude descending a staircase

10. Balla – Street Light 1909 -New inventions in science were important to the Futurists. -they celebrated scientific developments – from the electric light to the plane.

11. Balla – Abstract speed the car has passed

12. Boccioni – Cyclist – Football player

13. Severini Armoured car in action

14. Severini The Dancer

15. GiacomoBalla • Young Girl Running on a Balcony 1912

16. Other possible artist -Henri Matisse Falling figure Icarus

17. Using collage, colour and shape The Fall of Icarus

18. Danseuse Creole. Colour lithograph after a paper cut-out and gouache, 1950.

19. Skater in Motion - linocut

20. Two dancers - study

21. The swimming pool

22. Roald Bradstock – contemporary British

26. Bill Jacklin RA contemporary Britishhttp://www.bjacklin.com/index.html Concerned with light and movement

32. Maggie Hambling – Contemporary British – sea pictureswww.maggihambling.com

36. Useful sites • Bill Jacklin RA contemporary Britishhttp://www.bjacklin.com/index.html • http://www.fitnessartworks.com • www.maggihambling.com http://www.roaldbradstock.com

37. William Turner’s Clouds – movement in weather

38. Movement in music

40. Movement in nature

41. Creating your own light images

42. What to do this week 1.Decide on what aspect of movement you want to do 2. Select an artist who also focuses on this sort of movement (the artist could be one you choose but check with me first) 3. create a pastiche of your favourite piece by that artist 4. Analyse their work using a prompt sheet 5. Print out pictures of their work and creatively display with your pastiche, analysis on an A2 sheet