2k15 AS Fine Art Unit2

Towns and cities Richard Estes

Stephen Wiltshire- Autistic artist who draws entire cities in complete accurate detail from memory!

Colourful city scapes - Karl Haglund

Laura Barnard

Reflections Diego Velazquez- Las Meninas The King and Queen (parents) reflected showing their power and influence whilst not taking the limelight.

Pol Bury

M.C Escher

Paul Nash- Landscape of a dream

Reflectionswater

David Hockney- Patterns of light reflecting on water

Georges Seurat

Claude Monet- London paintings

Richard Wilson Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Reflections- the artist including their own reflection Manet- Bar at the Folies Bergere

MC Escher

Jan Van Eyck- Arnolfini portrait.

Grayson Perry- The tomb of the unknown craftsman.

A ship made using imprints and recreations of objects from the British Museum.

Tony Cragg- Making art from thrown away plastic items

Objects and artefacts

John Chamberlainmaking sculptures from crushed metal objects such as old car doors

Totem poles play a key role in Native American culture and ritual and could be a starting point for your investigation.

Celtic crossesthese intricately patterned crosses play a significant role in Celtic ritual and tradition

African tribal masks used for ritual and ceremony

Illuminated manuscripts- in medieval times Bibles- the most precious of objectswere often intricately decorated.

Objects and artefacts

Barbara Kruger - social commentator and political aggrivator

Significant events Shephard Faery- Political

Banksy -Political and social Diego Rivera- Mexican Revolution murals

Jose Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros

Light, weather and landscape JMW Turner Andre Derain Claude Monet

Light, weather and landscape Vincent Van Gogh

Thomas Cole

Emil Nolde- Watercolours Graham Sutherland

Aert van der Neer

Light, weather and landscape Andy Goldsworthy- makes temporary land art, in the full knowledge the effects of weather will soon destroy it.

Childe Hassam- focused on rainy scenes Albert Bierstadt