1. Contextual Study Skills
AQA UNIT 2 EXAM

2. Evidencing high quality
skills.
 Imaginative research skills.

3. Evidencing high quality
skills.
 Imaginative research skills.
 Regular gallery visits evident.

4. Evidencing high quality
skills.
 Imaginative research skills.
 Regular gallery visits evident.
 Highly focussed and relevant analysis.

5. Evidencing high quality
skills.
 Imaginative research skills.
 Regular gallery visits evident.
 Highly focussed and relevant analysis.
 Insightful annotation.

6. Evidencing high quality
skills.
 Imaginative research skills.
 Regular gallery visits evident.
 Highly focussed and relevant analysis.
 Insightful annotation.
 Thorough grasp of photographic
conventions.

7. Evidencing high quality
skills.
 Imaginative research skills.
 Regular gallery visits evident.
 Highly focussed and relevant analysis.
 Insightful annotation.
 Thorough grasp of photographic
conventions.
 Can think conceptually.

8. Evidencing high quality
skills.
 Imaginative research skills.
 Regular gallery visits evident.
 Highly focussed and relevant analysis.
 Insightful annotation.
 Thorough grasp of photographic
conventions.
 Can think conceptually.
 Self directed, independent investigations.

9. Evidencing high quality
skills.
 Imaginative research skills.
 Regular gallery visits evident.
 Highly focussed and relevant analysis.
 Insightful annotation.
 Thorough grasp of photographic
conventions.
 Can think conceptually.
 Self directed, independent investigations.

10. Evidencing high quality
skills
 Evidence of learning from the work of others.

11. Evidencing high quality
skills
 Evidence of learning from the work of others.
 Ideas/techniques are developed in own
practice.

14. Lewis Baltz
 Born 1945 in California
 His work looks at American suburbia and in
particular industrial parks.
 His photographs are concerned with ratios
and proportional systems (like architecture).
 The compositions are a form of ‘minimalism’
the content of the work is the arrangement of
shapes and space.
 Reminds us of:-

15. Sean Scully

16. Sean Scully

17. Rut Blees Luxembourg

18. Describe what you are
looking at..............
 Genre (documentary, landscape, portrait, still
life, experimental or a mixture?.
 Format (digital, film, cinema, painting) & size?
 Colour – Colour palette? How has Luxembourg
emphasised/selected/altered colour?
 Tone – contrasty, tonal?
 Composition/framing. How are shapes or object
distributed over the frame?
 Lighting – natural, artificial, harsh, direction?

19. What can you see?

20.  Scale – is scale used as idea in the work?
 Space – is there a sense of space or lack of a
sense of space (eg highly cropped)?
 Shapes, pattern, ‘rythmn’ within the frame.
 Surface/texture – rough, accentuated by side
light, smooth, shiney, mixture?

21. What dos you know?

22. How is it done
photographically?
 Camera angle, viewpoint – face on, tilted?
 Focal point – central, side, several focal
points?
 Depth of focus – shallow or deep?
 Movement – blurred or ‘frozen’ (shutter
speed)?
 Manipulated in darkroom or digitally?

23. What do you think?

24. What is it about?
 Subject matter? Theme?
 How does it fit into a genre or type of work?
 Why this choice of location/subject matter?
 Why this work selected?
 Visual idea/suggestion/possibility?
 What does it remind you of?
 Who could the work be intended for? Where
might you see this work?
 Does it link to other artists’ works you can think
of ? How? Why?

25. Rut Blees Luxembourg
 Born 1967 Germany
 Based in London.
 Her work is mostly taken at night using
ambient light only.
 She uses a tripod and will leave the shutter
open for about 10 minutes. This has the
effect also of ‘erasing’ any passing people,
increasing the sense of space and ‘loneliness’
of the image.

26. Your contextual study task
 Select 1 main artist and 2 to 6 supporting
artists to research and analyse.
 Download images to illustrate your analysis
and insights.
 If relevant include your own sketches,
diagrams and transcriptions (try outs).
 Arrange this over 2 x A2 pages minimum.
 Follow the guidelines above and in course
booklet to analyse. Deadline 29th Feb