AS, Fine Art, Exam Project, 2017 Edexcel, Structure

1. STRUCTURE

2. To pay attention
is our endless
and proper
work.
Mary Oliver
(American poet b 1935 - )

3. Brainstorm/Blue Sky Thinking/Mindmap
Call it what you like or what ever
someone else says we should call
it… Ideas come when
you are actively
thinking about
stuff… it’s your job to think.
Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from
Watch Steve Johnson guide you
through the origins of ideas.
You can cultivate ideas
Ideas are put together
from thinking about
stuff, thinking again and
then joining up your
thinking and acting on it.

4. VERY BRILLIANT IDEAS
Steal Like An Artist: Austin
Kleon at TEDxKC
This is the bit were your teacher asks you to look at other artists work and make
connections. You don’t need to reinvent the art wheel, you can take ideas and build
on them, push ideas in other drections. It’s your job to do this and make things that
are visually interesting. If someone else has already done it how are you going to
move the idea on.
Blackout Poetry

5. Vladimir Tatlin
Monument to the 3rd International.
Vladimir Tatlin - Russia's legendary
dreamer
Pneumatic Tatlin
For Tatlin And the
Hopes of All the
Ages
Watch this film to find our about
Tatlin. Watch the links below to see
how artists are still inspired by this
work over 100 years after it was
made.

6. TOP TIP… What the expectations are
*
i) Who? ii) What?
A) Why are artists, 100 years later still drawn to this work?
B) What was the wider context in which this work was made?
C) What kind of resonance does this monument have in the 21st
century?
iii) Why?
Good practice would be to find
out about Vladimir Tatlin and
what he was up to with his
Monument to The Third
International.
iv) MAKE
YOUR
OWN
VERSION
OF
TATLIN’S
TOWER

7. Alastair Mackinven
ET SIC IN INFINITUM
Et Sick In Infinitum, 2008.
Oil on canvas.
Et Sick In Infinitum, 2008.
Oil on canvas.

8. Penrose Stairs/Steps
The Penrose stairs or Penrose steps, also dubbed the impossible staircase, is an
impossible object created by Lionel Penrose and his son Roger Penrose. A
variation on the Penrose triangle, it is a two-dimensional depiction of a staircase
in which the stairs make four 90-degree turns as they ascend or descend yet form
a continuous loop, so that a person could climb them forever and never get any
higher. This is clearly impossible in three dimensions.
Penrose stairs
M.C. Escher
Ascending and
Descending.
Alastair MacKinven,
Andway Isthay Oreverfay
2008, Oil on canvas. 205 x 205 cm
An idea taken from
mathematics made visual via
an etching reinterpreted by a
painter

9. Rachel Whiteread
Charity box, cast object
Rachel Whiteread, Embankment.
TASK 1
Take cardboard boxes and make a
structure from them out in the
corridor space. Use take to stick
boxes together.

10. Ai Weiwei
TASK 1a
Look over Tatlin’s
Monument to the 3rd
International again.
Vladimir Tatlin
Dan Flavin
A version of the
sculpture in the
courtyard of the
Royal Academy.
Take the boxes provided and make your own homage to Tatlin’s Monument The 3rd
International. Make a structure that gives you height as well as volume.
Vladimir Tatlin
Retrospective

11. TASK 1b Look over Tatlin’s Monument to the 3rd
International again.
Make an interesting structure with the boxes. Use tape to attach them together.
How will you make them balance. How will your structure be a homage to Tatlin’s
Monument to the 3rd International

12. TASK 1c
Make
*
Choose other kinds of materials to
make your own structures/stacks…
and document them via drawing.

13. Martin Creed makes structures
(stacks using cardboard boxes
as well as other objects).
MARTIN CREED BOXES

14. Cardboard boxes are pretty much at the bottom of
the totem pole in terms of possible art materials.
They are cheap, disposable containers for other
things. Rauschenberg has said he tries “to act in
that gap between” art and life, and there's
probably nothing more everyday than a cardboard
box. He uses them “as is,” with their stains, tears,
marks and worn labels revealing their history and
creating a patina of wear and age.
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG BOXES

15. Damien Hirst
Damien Hirst, Mother and Child (Divided), 1993,
Glass, painted steel, silicone, acrylic, monofilament,
stainless steel, cow, calf and formaldehyde solution.
207 x 322 x 109cm

16. Let’s borrow from Damien

17. Rachel Whiteread, Embankment.
TASK 2a
.
Lets cut up cabbages and drawing them interior
structure, paying extremely close attention to
nuances and colour.

18. Take the drawing you made last week
i) Take your Red Cabbage
drawing/painting/photos from last week
and use them to create prints
ii) Poly tile iii) Etching iii) Monoprints
iii) HOW CAN YOU MAKE THIS INTEESTING? Your job is to think
about this bit.
TASK 2b
.

19. Juan Sánchez Cotán
ca. 1602, oil on canvas
68.9 cm x 84.5 cm
Laura Letinsky
Untitled #54,
Hardly More Than Ever series,
2002
31″ x 26.4″
Archival Ink Print
Making an art historical reference. 1602 to 2002.
Separated by 400 years. However both artists use the
sliced melon and reveal its structure.
Look at Juan Sánchez Cotán work and
think about how you might use it as a
starting point, a stepping off point to
also make a work that includes a cut
vegetables.

20. Half Term Homework
The Lloyds
Building
St Paul’s
City Hall Battersea Power
Station
Banqueting
House
British Museum Admiralty Arch St Bartholomew-
the-Great

21. Half Term Homework
You are to look at important and interesting buildings in London.
i) Make a selection of 3 buildings.
ii) Research the buildings. Does the building have a history worth telling? If
you building is an old building can you point to a more contemporary
version of it?
iii) Can you make other links to your building visually?
iv) Visit the buildings and make drawings of them.
Full pages in your sketchbook. Three buildings = 3 double page spreads
Use different media to make your drawings.
v) Look at the work of Jeanette Barnes and let it be the permission you need
to make more expressive drawings.
Mark making is king/queen

22. John Virtue
London cityscape
Lesson 03 - John Virtue
Bourne IdenTV at Towner: British
Artist John Virtue and The Sea
Watch

23. Jeanette Barnes

24. Sean Hillen
'IRELANTIS'
collages 1994-2005

25. Half Term Homework
Ask yourself “what if”?
Recognise, evaluate
and reflect. What is
worth pursuing and
further developing?

26. Artists to look at and consider

27. Katie Paterson
Earth Moon Earth
In Moon Earth Moon Katie Paterson sent a digital
signal of Beethoven’s Moon Light Sonata to the
moon and reflected it off the moon back to earth.
The returning signal was then played by a piano in
a gallery. What the piano played back was based
on Beethoven’s original music , but because of lost
data the structure was changed.
Watch Katie Paterson on Moon Transmission
Katie Paterson, documentation of “Earth Moon Earth”

28. Nina Katchadourian
Spider web repair kit.
Nina Katchadourian, “GIFT/GIFT” (1998)
Nina Katchadourain made a series of works in which she repair
spiders webs. She worked with an existing structure and added to it
in a way that re-established the original structure.
Watch

29. Vija Celmins tate shots in the studio
Untitled (Web 1), 2001, Mezzotint on paper 17.78 x 19.69 cm
Charcoal on paper

30. James Casebere
James Casebere makes the sets for all his
photographs. Simple paper structure that
are transformed in the process of
documenting them via photographs.

31. Jeremy Deller
Jeremy Deller, Sacrilege, 2012, mixed media
Watch these clips to see how people interact with thi s work
Sacrilege Part 1 The Making Of
Sacrilege Part 2 Glasgow Launch

32. tehching hsieh
Look here
Tehching Hsieh made an exceptional
series of artworks; five separate one
year long performances that were
unprecedented in the use of
physical difficulty over extreme
durations and in the absolute
conception of art and life as
simultaneous processes.
He formalised a structure of ideas
and rules that he applied to himself
in order to produce his
performances. He stuck to his
structure each time for a period of
1 year.

33. “The way we approach the
work is that it’s meant to be
fun for us, but, on the other
hand, the audience has to be
having fun with us. I think
there’s more room for humour
and fun in activism and I think
there’s more room for humour
in the arts.”
Evan Roth
Evan Roth Presentation,
Storytelling, Kitchen Budapest
Artists are Hackers: Evan Roth
at TEDx Pantheon Sorbonne
Look at and take from Roths
work. How could you introduce
his ideas of hacking into
systems you experience?
(Look at it all the work but
ignore the phone swipe works.
They’re the least interesting
works in a body of challenging
and funny works.
WATCH.
Learn from the way he
describes ideas in a
simple way and consice
way,

34. Anish Kapoor
1000 Names, 1979 - 1980

35. Charlotte Nash

36. Advice to Young Artists
David Shrigley
Lydia Davis
Olafur Eliasson
Hans-Peter Feldmann
Mamma Andersson
David Byrne
Marina Abramović
Joshua Oppenheimer
David