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Cami Checa Laviada
Exeter
During my Pre-IB year at Aiglon, I experienced some of the starting points for IGCSE art. I have worked on many of my skills including acrylic paint, responding to the artist Maya Kopitseva, oil paint to help complete my artist studies on ToiletPaperMagazine, collages by getting inspiration from Robert Rauschenberg, and even dark-room photograms by looking at artists such as like Man Ray. I learned a massive amount about surrealist artists and painting techniques by going to the Bern museum and looking at works from Meret Oppenheim. Even though I have personally tried many different techniques, ranging from pencil to photograms, the one I put most to practise into was painting with oil paints. My favourite technique, and the one I'm most confident working with, is pencil, but I wanted to improve and learn how to be able to paint with oils so, I chose to do most of my work with that.
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YEAR 11 ART EXHIBITION BOOK | 2021 - 2022
I firstly start every piece of work by brainstorming from theme ideas, or even artists that remind me of the theme we are looking at. I always try to find artists that I personally like and try to get some of their techniques to be able to apply them onto my own work.
I feel like every individual piece of work is different, but, I believe that they all have the same feel or at least you can tell that they have the same style just by my technique and ideas. I try to gain inspiration from a lot of society's viewpoints and reflections and always try to include that in my artworks. I go by what I think is funky, colourful, or even interesting, and try to see if I can mould it my own by making it have a deeper meaning and reeling it back into the theme of reflections.
There is no specific intention I want to achieve with my works but, I want to have people look at it and relate back to themselves or to society to see the world in a different way and start experiencing it in a different way, not only by what society's standards say. With this final theme that is ‘reflections’, I want to create something with the same feel and something that can be seen as reflections in society.
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