This document discusses themes of flaws, perfection, ideals and compromise in artworks through brief descriptions of various artists and their processes. It explores how artists approach imperfections, modifications and revisions in their work through techniques like painting over parts of pieces, incorporating materials or marks from the natural world, using digital distortions, and moving between photographic representation and abstraction. The artists find different balances between striving for ideals while accepting flaws and compromises.

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2. Your journey might begin with these ideas.
Stepping stones. Places to start from, but not the
final destinations, that’s somewhere else.
Geological faults, gemstone inclusions...
Forest fires, landslips, quarries, gorges, ruins, urban decay...
Stains, cracks, blots, accidents, spills, rips, patches...
Make-up, disguises, masks, clothing, artificial fur, plastic surgery...
Politics, deceit, trickery, concealment...
Selective breeding, genetic modification, cloning...
Shows, competition, pageants...
Mutation, bacteria, viruses, scars...
Families, relationships, communities...

3. The Artists ask all manner of questions. Some
questions match your exam titles.
Sometimes through the materials they use,
sometimes by the questions they ask of
themselves or political systems, Artists make
their own idiosyncratic investigations
The surface of a painting is often a place of
decision making. A pursuit and exploration of
perfection. A palimpsest process of making and
remaking. Intuitive decision making, flawed,
compromised, perfect and idealised.

4. Mind Map ideas after the PP FPIC presentation.
i) Include words, pictures, observational drawings X5.
ii) Use a double page spread.
5hr hwk- Produce a mood sheet, collecting images linked to ideas
within the theme (take photos) + produce 6-8 sketches with notes
explaining ideas and areas of focus
This is the bit you have to do.

5. Jean-Michel Basquiat
In his drawings and
paintings Basquiat
often paints over
and erases parts of
his work.
1984
Interview Basquiat painting DOwntown 1981 Gagosian show
Warhol/Basquiat Busted at Gagosian

6. Susan Collis
Susan Collis takes materials thought
to be perfect and precious and
places then contexts thought
worthless
Enter, us (2009). 18-carat white gold (hallmarked),
white sapphire, turquoise
What’s yours is mine, 2012. Section of 12mm plasterboard from
gallery wall (London, W1) inserted into gallery wall (London, E2)
Jimmy, 2010
Coloured biro inks and
graphite on paper construction
Susan Collis explaining her work.

7. Kour Pour
Old worn carpets, the Silk Road, merchants, trade,
the history of an object, the object as the record
of itself and its treatment.
Kour Pour at Untitled
Heavenly Horses, 2013
Acrylic on canvas over panel

8. Richard Tuttle
Old worn carpets, the Silk Road, merchants, trade,
the history of an object, the object as the record
of itself and its treatment.
Artists are like clouds
Tuttle in conversation at the Basel Art Fair
Richard Tuttle at work

9. Cy Twombly
Cy Twombly grafitti gesture
describes both satisfaction and
unrest. A continous reflection of
process and final image.
Night Watch, 1996
John Squire discusses Cy Twombly Works on Paper

10. Georg Baelitz
Cy Twombly grafitti gesture
describes both satisfaction and
unrest. A continous reflection of
process and final image.
Only in Art the World is Whole

11. Ingrid Calame
Ingrid Calame traces the evidence of marks left in public places, such as race tracks and car
parks and then layers her paintings with the shapes she has collected on location.
At the Fruitmakers Gallery In Process Explain process Ingrid Calame discussing process

12. Nina Cannel
Nina Cannel takes processes, often scientific and creates her own actions
and sculptural experiments. Between language and visual representation.
Mist Mouth
A Model Where Things Merge,
2011
Strays, 2012
Soft Corner, 2013
MId Sentence - Moderna Museet Near Here

13. Elizabeth McLellan
Elizabeth McLellan buries her drawings for
a period of time and then digs them back
up.

14. Colin Chillag
Colin Chillag’s
paintings show the
process of painting
and how the build up
and process of
making unfold in a
work.

15. J M Culver
Colin Chillag’s paintings show the process of painting and
how the build up and process of making unfold in a work.
JM Culver discussing her work

16. Brian Cyther
Brian Cyther like many artists makes value judgments and changes to his paintings as
they develop. Striving for a balance of compromise and ideals.

17. Enda O Donaghue
Enda O Donaghue compromises the descriptive nature of his
paintings by adding abstract devices.
Enda O Donaghue discussing his work
Fuzzy Memory, 2012. Oil on Canvas

18. Tauba Auerbach
Tauba Auerbach ingeniously analytical work has a manic
precision that is the perfect foil for languid beauty.
Fuzzy Memory, 2002 C-printUntitled (Fold) 2011 Acrylic on canvas
Untitled (Fold) 2011 Acrylic on canvas
A description of Tauba Auerbach's Fold paintings

19. Laura Splan
One aspect of Laura Splan’s work are these
these traditional looking doilies. However they take their
design from infectious viruses and are made from facial
chemical peals.
Laura Splan talks about her work
Laura Splan Watching Hands

20. Jens Hesse
Jens Hesse uses digital distortion such as
satellite signals, datamoshed videos and
other mechanical malfunctions as sources
for her paintings.
man in the box 2010 oil on corduroy

21. Wade Guyton
Wade Guyton takes digital files and pushes then to
the very limits of printing technologies.
Untitled (Fold) 2011 Acrylic on canvas
Wade Guyton at Portikus
Untitled, 2006, inkjet on canvas

22. Jenny Holzer
Jenny Holzer’s return to painting.
Government edited documents, CIA, FBI.
TOP SECRET 32 2010 oil on linen

23. Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei Artist, Activist often questions the involvement of authority on the everyday. The hold the past has on
the present. He questions the actions of the Chinese government at great personal risk.
Sun Flower Seeds Tate Modern
Without Fear of Favour Conversation at Tate Modern
Artists, Advocate and Dissident Never Say Sorry
Art, China and Censirship According to Ai Weiwei
Tea House

24. Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter moves effortlessly between photorealist representation and abstraction. One genre fixed in the
perfect mechanical reproduction the other full of ideals and the other endless change and compromise.
Betty 1988. Oil on Canvas. 102 cm x 72 cm Show Bank Show - Gerhard Richter (2006)
Gerhard Richter Painting (Extract)
Abstract Painting (726) 1990 Oil on canvas

25. Jaybo Monk
Transformations and changes each of
presented with equal importance
Jaybo Monk discusses his work.

26. To your next lesson
bring an object that is
relevent to the
development of your
Ideas regarding the
exam theme