GCSE Fine Art Exam2013

Question 7 Movement

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 peoplec) You could create work which actually moves

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.

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

Possible Artists – The Futurists

• It was an Italian movement which spread quickly throughout Europe including Russia

• The poet Filippo Tommaso 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), Giacomo Balla (1871-1958) and Gino Severini (1883-1965)

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

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

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

Duchamp – Nude descending a staircase

• 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

Balla – Street Light 1909

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

Balla – Abstract speed the car has passed

Boccioni – Cyclist – Football player

Severini Armoured car in action

Severini The Dancer

Giacomo Balla

• Young Girl Running on a Balcony 1912

Other possible artist -Henri Matisse

Falling figure Icarus

Using collage, colour and shape

The Fall of Icarus

Danseuse Creole. Colour lithograph after a paper cut-out and

gouache, 1950.

Skater in Motion - linocut

Two dancers - study

The swimming pool

Roald Bradstock – contemporary British

Bill Jacklin RA contemporary Britishhttp://www.bjacklin.com/index.html

Concerned with light and movement

Maggie Hambling – Contemporary British – sea pictures

www.maggihambling.com

Useful sites

• Bill Jacklin RA contemporary Britishhttp://www.bjacklin.com/index.html

• http://www.fitnessartworks.com

• www.maggihambling.com

http://www.roaldbradstock.com

William Turner’s Clouds – movement in weather

Movement in music

Movement in nature

Creating your own light images

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 artist4. Analyse their work using a prompt sheet5. Print out pictures of their work and creatively display with your pastiche, analysis on an A2 sheet