Force GCSE Independent Project

Ideas

• Strength Constrain Control• Energy Influence Convince• Effort Resist Stress• Speed Push Friction• Power Tension Exerton

PeoplePotential Ideas:Distort images of powerful people, make them grotesque.Draw people who are important to you but not necessarily anyone else.Combine the styles of two artists. (see Glenn Brown- not in the PP but worth a look anyway).Digitally manipulate a portrait to age the person in the image.Create portraits in the style of Jenny Saville using the thick, impasto paint technique.Create work that defies gravity- use powerful magnets. (see the artist Takis- not in the PP)Create distorted portraits. Eg Tado Cern.

Bill Viola

Emotional force / Visual art / Life and Death

Bill Viola

Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon-Explores the “Human Condition” in his work. -Paintings portray an existentialist outlook on life. Graphic and emotionally raw style of painting

Edvard Munch

Andy Warhol

Lucian Freud

Jenny Saville

Shepard FaireyForceful/Powerful imagery

Sam Taylor Wood Natural/unnatural forces/gravity

Tado Cern

Henrietta Harris

Ives Klein

Propaganda/Political responses

Potential Ideas:Juxtapose political pictures with quotes that support or contradict the image.Create your own images of propaganda about an issue of your choice.Collage images together in a way that contradicts their original meaning.Contradiction of violent extremism and religion.Paint a portrait in a traditional style ( including the gold frame) of someone with an extreme, even unpleasant appearance.Create work that illustrates Heaven and Hell, the forces of good and evil.Use problems you encounter as inspiration for your work- what do you find difficult or challenging?

Force of influence

Barbara Kruger

Alexander Rodchenko

Shirin Neshat

MovementPotential Ideas:Translate Lichtenstein’s work into three dimensions.Take photographs of different parts of a movement and layer them together. Use the strobe in photography…?Inspired by Muybridge’s sequence of movement images but incorporate mechanical objects.Represent a sequence of movements in a series of more cartoon like images.Create work from Music- think carefully about colour, shape and mark making.Photograph and object smashing. If the object was filled with paint it would also make it’s own painting.Spinning disc paintings: Damian Hirst & Alfons SchillingDirk Skreber inspired images on skateboards.

Edward MuybridgeDirk Skreber

Dirk Skreber

Sculptures based upon the theme of FORCE, speed, gravity, exertion, energy and strength

Roy Lichtenstein

Pablo Picasso

Balla

Gino Severini

Jackson Pollock

Brice Marden

Energy and movement in painting

Places/EnvironmentPotential Ideas:View from windows- like Pericoli but blurred like Barnes.Create abstract paintings / drawings combining locations from around the world.Create lego buildings or more realistic buildings, photograph them from a low perspective so that they appear bigger.Create paintings of the new architecture in London in a traditional way. Eg. The Gherkin in the style of Constable.Put old elements on modern buildings eg thatched roof, slatted windows etc.Create work based on the busy streets of London.Recreate Boyle Family project in Muswell Hill.Combine two very different buildings or environments.Like Borja Bonaque but incorporating trees- an opposite type of place.Make a model of a building that has the qualities of Feng Dakang’s paintings out of fragile, translucent materials. Make it appear fragile and precarious.

Power plants, dams, wind turbines represent physical force and strength created within them.

Visit the Thames barriers or windmill farms

Jeanette Barnes

Feng Dakang

Boyle Family

Borja Bonaque

John Piper

Charles Sheeler

Sarah Morris

Matteo Pericoli

NaturePotential Ideas:Recreate Hokusai’ wave by painting with hand prints / fingers etc.Work from awe inspiring locations- include figures that illustrate the enormity of the chosen places.Respond to the work of Fay Goodwin and photograph stages of deforestation. Have as a sequence or layer.In response to Gabriel Dawe- make images of nature from string and smaller objects.In response to Jen Stark, layer coloured translucent materials to create a similar effect.Look at the patterns that appear in nature (spirals, tessellations, helixes etc) recreate theses in man-made materials.Create work that illustrates the damage man inflicts on the environment.Crack through a wall or floor in north wing. (Use trompe l’oiel rather than actually doing it!)Bring Nature inside…? Moss on walls, watercress, grass seed…. Alter a dolls house with growing things!

Doris SalcedoForce of nature Earthquakes, stress...Cracks

Fay GodwinForces of nature

Turner

Maggi Hambling

Katsushika Hokusai

Gabriel DaweDawe began creating artwork using techniques that were considered women's work by many of Mexico City's inhabitants. Inspired by the creations of Anish Kapoor and Victor Vasarely, Dawe's work developed into huge, viewer absorbing installations made from thousands upon thousands of different colour threads and taking up to 140 hours and four to five weeks to create

Irene AntonInstallations are often inspired by nature and natural shapes and structures,

like for example this network made of tights

Jen StarkJen Stark is a contemporary artist whose majority of work involves creating paper sculptures. She also works with drawing and animation. Her work draws inspiration from microscopic patterns in nature

Objects/use of found objectsPotential Ideas:Cut into or paint each page of a newspaper or magazine. (Like Georgia Russell and Mimmo Rotello)Cut into book covers so that the illustrations come to life and ‘act out’ the story.Shred materials, Eg. Plastic bags, knit, weave or combine them to make a completely different object.Upside down cash register- based on Rebecca Horn. Create sculpture that falls out of itself!Response to Ai Wei Wei- break beautiful objects, piece them back together in a new configuration or paint a slogan or known brand across them.Spray paint a plant giving it a fake appearance, create drawings from this.Suspend an object or several to make it appear as if they have exploded.Recreate a natural object in a different scale and media.

Cornelia Parker

floating objects,defying force of gravity

Jean Blackburn

Jean Blackburn creates ingenious sculptures by deconstructing everyday household items: chairs, tables, chests of drawers, beds and related objects. Using the materials from the deconstructed objects, Blackburns makes elaborate constructions that undermine the basic utilitarian nature of the object. In addition to the deconstructed household objects, Blackburn fabricates ceramic pieces with her signature holes.

Suzy Lelievre

Cara Barer

Georgia Russell

Bill Woodrow

Rebecca Horn

Jean Tingueley

Robert Rauschenberg

Mimmo Rotella

Nnenna Okore

Karla Black

Ernesto Neto