GCSE Art & Design exam Qs 2016

EXAM QUESTIONS- 2016

GCSE ART & DESIGN

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THE EXAM! YOU WILL HAVE 6/7 WEEKS TO PREPARE. THE EXAM WILL BE 10 HOURS LONG. LISTEN CAREFULLY TO THE FOLLOWING STARTING POINTS AND MAKE NOTES IN THE FRONT OF YOUR SKETCHBOOKS (LOTS OF LITTLE MIND-MAPS) http://goo.gl/mksDQO

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1.LANDMARKS - INVESTIGATE APPROPRIATE SOURCES, USE SUITABLE TECHNIQUES AND CREATE YOUR OWN TEXTILE INSPIRED BY LANDMARKS Meaning: An object or feature of a landscape or town that is easily seen and recognized from a distance, especially one that enables someone to establish their location.

Can you think of any landmarks around you? Write them down now in your books. Your ideas are all important.

Paul Nash WW1 Artist and famous for landscapes

A great starting point for inspiration. You could relate this to the modern military. How about the military bases and landmarks around here? War memorials might inspire you? You might explore mixed media, painting or drawing? Lots of potential!

Denise Labadie Quilts and mixed media pieces based on ancient landmarks Ideas: You could visit old churches or monuments near you and take photographs. You could focus in on the texture and create a mixed media piece like this on the left.

You might like to create more of a scene like the image on the right.

Perhaps you could visit Stonehenge and take photos that could inspire a collage?

John Piper printmaker and designer of stained-glass windows and theatre sets Find a cool church, town hall, old building or monument near you.

Take some photos!!

Mixed media, prints, image transfer...lots of ideas that you could explore. You could make a series of prints or lovely textured mixed media creations?

Eleri Mills

Where is your favourite place from your childhood? Why not photograph the area where you grew up/are growing up now or Welsh Artist that uses the special places that mean something to you? The lines that childhood landscapes to Eleri uses might inspire you to do some lino-printing or monomake textile panels and printing. There's a lovely contrast of soft and bold in her work.

How could you recreate this? mixed media paintings

1. LANDMARKS

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2. OUTLINE - OUTLINE AS WELL AS OTHER LINEAR QUALITIES, IS SOMETIMES USED AS A DESIGN ELEMENT BY ARTISTS, DESIGNERS AND CRAFTSPEOPLE

• Meaning: A line or set of lines enclosing or indicating the shape of an object in a sketch or diagram. OR draw, trace, or define the outer edge or shape of.

Patrick Caulfield

Bright, flat colours and simple shapes.

Bold and simple lines make these striking images. How could you recreate something like this? What could you use to inspire you?

Maltius Hoch Perhaps you have an eye for photography? Hock likes interesting lines and viewpoints. Take some photos and see where it takes you.

Franco Grigani Lots of precise and repetitive lines. Optical illusions and limited colours.

How could you something like this inspire your own work?

Backgrounds?

Lucie Rie

Anni Albers Textile designer who creates geometric designs on things such as rugs

Perhaps ceramics is your 'thing'. The striking lines on these pieces are really lovely. Maybe this could be worth exploring for you?

2. OUTLINE

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3.From Above: Sometimes designers and artists are inspired by aerial views. Where could you get up high for some interesting viewpoints? Close ups perhaps? http://goo.gl/mksDQO

Carolyn Genders

Maybe maps and aerial views could inspire some ceramic pieces like these?

Carol Rhodes

Your inspiration might come from aerial views of the area around you?

You might want to explore flat and light colour like Rhodes does to make the images more modern

Boyle Family Maybe you like the idea of closer 'aerial' views like the Boyle Family?

Everyday things can become much more interesting from unusual viewpoints.

Alicia Merett Perhaps Alicia Merett's abstract aerial views might inspire you? Bright, bold colours and simple shapes make striking images. How could these images inspire your own work?

Jazzberry Blue Club

Another simplified version of an aerial view. Limited colour palette and simple bold lines make this effective. Is there anywhere that you fid really interesting that could inspire you?

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4. DIARY - CREATE A PIECE INSPIRED BY EITHER: A DAILY DIARY, A DIARY OF A JOURNAL OR TEXT RECORDED IN A DIARY • This could be taken in many different ways. Here are a few ideas to get you started...

• The diary could be the final outcome...you could re-create a personal diary or imagine the diary of someone else?

• Thoughts that you've written in a diary or journal could then be used to inspire your work.

• You might take inspiration from other artists who've explored working with diaries and choose to re-create.

• You could make links to the military...perhaps look at world wars and the diaries/letters home. This might then be linked to the modern day wars.

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Frida Kahlo Frida Kahlo kept visual diaries religiously.

You could do something similar. Perhaps you could use these to inspire your work? Maybe your final piece could be a fabric book or diary? What kind of things would you write? Lots of scope for a wide range of techniques and media.

Sandra makes notes in her diary and uses photos from her travels for composition ideas. You could take a photo every day on your phone and then use it to create a wonderful composition like these. Perhaps an instagram snap or yourself everyday? collage and print could work really nicely to make an interesting and personal mixed media piece.

Sandra Meech

Tilleke Schwarz Tilleke uses snippets of overheard conversations and stitches it into her work. You could go on bus-rides, walk around supermarkets or listen around school and make note of converstaions. They might inspire a story or you might notice a pattern.

Get some first hand images involved too and this could be a really interesting embroidery piece!

Tracie Murchison

Perhaps you might like the idea of sculpture or re-cycling old magazines and newspapers? You could create objects with a focus on text like this artist?

Juliana Coles

Perhaps you like the idea of pouring all of your thoughts and feelings onto paper.

Your final piece might be a mixed media painting like this one? A mixture of text and dreamlike images.

This might inspire a really personal piece.

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5. 'WISH YOU WERE HERE' • A popular phrase on postcards. It has a personal connection to particular places.

• Some artists have used postcards as their inspiration and some create work on postcards.

• There is the opportunity here for digital, photographic, collaged, stitched or mixed media responses here. This could be a great choice.

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Julie Cockburn

If you feel that you have a strength or interest in photography, this might be a really useful artist to start with.

Postcard sized images could be created about all kinds of subjects.

A great starting point for some excellent AO3 evidence.

Sarah Fishburn

These artists create mixed media collages that might be an interesting starting point for some of you?

Perhaps you collect lots of letters or pictures or decorative pieces?

Maybe you save tickets from holidays or train journeys. You could have a go at creating some really meaningful and creative collages using things that are personal to you.

Charlie Holt

Eduardo Recife

Shaun Kardinal

Perhaps you could take existing postcards and then alter them a bit like this artist? The bold shapes and use of threads are quite striking. How could you recreate something similar?

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CLOTHING - USE ANY MEDIA TO CREATE YOUR OWN RESPONSE. • Artists have often explored clothing to create a sense of identity.

• We all wear clothes that represent who we are as people. Tastes in clothes often change.

• This could be a really interesting topic to explore and link with things like identity, recycling, shape and form. http://goo.gl/mksDQO

Jasso Collado Maybe you could be inspired by the intersting shapes and textures of this designers work?

Maybe the work of this fashion photographer might inspire you to set up your own fantasy photoshoot? You could create your own set and costumes. It could be an interesting starting point

Tim Walker

Maybe you're interested in created a sculptural piece?

Perhaps you could make your own recycled clothing like Gary Harvey?

Lots of interesting shapes and textures.

Gary Harvey

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GROUPS - VERY OPEN ENDED OPTION! • Develop own interpretation of the starting point 'groups' • You can respond to this in a variety of ways. Either: • a) Your own interpretation of the word 'groups'.

• b) Groups of people being connected • c) Groups of objects. (this could be arrangements of objects) http://goo.gl/mksDQO

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Mon 29th Feb & Last Tues 1st March day of your

course: FRIDAY 20th MAY.

Wed 2nd & Thurs 3rd March

You will have 11 (inc break) weeks to complete ALL coursework (Unit 1)

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