SA1Music

A1: MUSIC

For this assignment your challenge is to create a painting, in direct response to an item of music.

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Example of A1: Music

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A1: MUSIC OVERVIEW: AIMS: ● The aim of the project is to help you understand the connection between feelings/ emotion/ expression and art.

DEVELOPMENT: ● A series of tasks will help you understand the concept of how feelings/ emotions can be illustrated as art, using a variety of methods including the listening to/of music.

● The study, investigation and research of Wassily Kandinsky and the paintings that he created will inspire your own work.

● The development studies will help prepare you for your own response to music through feelings/ emotion and line, shape and colour.

OUTCOME: ● The main/ final outcome (A1: Music) will be painting based on your personal response to music that you choose to use as inspiration. This should be created outside of your sketchbook on large (A3/A2 size paper).

Guidance:

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Prior to starting this assignment, you should have completed a series of development tasks inside sketchbooks which you should try and use to help you develop your own painting: ○ ○ ○ ○

Representations of feelings as line.

Explorations of line, shape and colour Compositions and juxtapositions of line, shape and colour Investigations and study of the work by Wassily Kandinsky

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Your painting should reflect, and incorporate the style of Kandinsky (the artist used

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A1: MUSIC throughout this project for inspiration).

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It is important that you produce a 'prep' piece of work using a full page in your sketchbook, before attempting the final work/ painting. This will help you practice and refine your final work/idea and can be used to work from during the process of developing your main painting/outcome.

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The subject matter of your final painting will be based on a 'response' to a piece or pieces of music. While listening to music, you should take notes on how the music makes you feel, illustrate these feelings/emotions with a variety of shapes, patterns and lines that may come to mind, and use colours which reflect mood and atmosphere.

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The final painting should look 'Abstract' and 'Expressive'. It should be your own composition of line, shape and colour in direct response to an item of music that you choose.

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A1: MUSIC

Do you have a smart phone?

If so you can use the camera on your phone to access online resources to help you with this assignment.

All you need is a QR code reader app, point your phone web browser to one of readers below:

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http://reader.kaywa.com http://get.beetagg.com http://www.quickmark.com.tw/En/basic/download.asp http://europe.nokia.com/support/product­support/nokia­n80/phone­software/smartphone For iPhone users. Go to iTunes and search for: QR Code reader

Once you have a reader/ app on your smart phone. Simply take a quick snap of the code below, and you will be redirected to the required resource, directly on your phone.

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