This document provides instructions for a Secondary Two mid-year art exam. Students will create an artwork adapting elements of post-impressionist and cubist paintings, without using specific works. They must complete preliminary studies and a final piece on A3 paper. The second question involves designing logos for a new restaurant, including typographic, initial, combination, and symbol logos applied to products. The third question asks students to depict a personal experience in a grotesque manner using elements like mixing categories and exaggeration. Preliminary studies are required to develop ideas from provided source images in a surreal or grotesque style.

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MID YEAR EXAM ART PAPER
SECONDARY TWO

2. • Your name, register number, class and question number
must be written on the top-right hand corner of the
front of each sheet of paper
• Only one piece of A3 size (297 mm x 420 mm) drawing
paper will be provided.
• You must bring your own media (e.g., acrylic paint,
paintbrushes, small container to fill water, rag, newspaper,
palette, pencils,).
• ART RAP must appoint 2 people to bring hair dryers.
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

3. • You are required to hand in THREE pieces of
preliminary studies (A3 size) together with final
art piece
• Time yourself during the examination. Drying
time must be within the examination duration
• Work to the full-size of the A3-size drawing
paper. Entire surface of drawing paper should be
used and in colour. Do not leave white
background
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

4. SECONDARY TWO

5. CREATE AN ARTWORK
ADAPTING FROM BOTH
POST-IMPRESSIONIST AND
CUBIST’S PAINTINGS. (YOU ARE NOT
ALLOWED TO USE ‘THE SCREAM’ AND ‘STARRY NIGHT’).
Question 1

6. POST-IMPRESSIONISTS USE VIVID COLOURS, THICK
APPLICATION OF PAINT, DISTINCTIVE BRUSH
STROKES. THEY USE REAL-LIFE SUBJECT MATTER, AND
OFTEN EMPHASIZE GEOMETRIC FORMS AND DISTORT
FORM FOR EXPRESSIVE EFFECT.
THEY USE UNNATURAL OR ARBITRARY COLOURS (NOT
REALISTIC COLOURS OF THE OBJECT).
CUBISM IS USING OBJECTS THAT ARE BROKEN UP,
ANALYZED, AND RE-ASSEMBLED IN AN ABSTRACTED
FORM.
Question 1

7. Preliminary studies
• Preliminary studies are to be done on A3 size
Drawing paper
• Each Preliminary study paper need to have at
least 2 drawings and 1 printed Original
Artwork
• Give short explanation of why you choose to
draw that image

8. Preparatory Work 1
Look for 3 paintings by Post-impressionism
1 COLOURED
PRINTED ARTWORK BY
VAN GOGH
2 DRAWN IMAGES BY
YOURSELVES

9. Preparatory Work 2
Look for 3 paintings by Cubism
1 COLOURED PRINTED
ARTWORK BY PICASSO
2 DRAWN IMAGES BY
YOURSELVES

10. Preparatory Work 3
Combine images from Post-Impressionism (Prep work 1)
and Cubism (Prep work 2) into your own FINAL ARTWORK.
You need to do 2 Final Artworks in COLOUR!

11. GORDON RAMSAY HAS ENGAGED
YOU AS HIS GRAPHIC DESIGNER
TO DESIGN HIS NEW
RESTAURANT WHICH WILL OPEN
AT VIVO CITY IN DECEMBER.
YOU ARE REQUIRED TO COME UP WITH 4 TYPES OF
LOGO DESIGN. (SYMBOL, INITIAL, TYPOGRAPHIC AND
COMBINATION)
Question 2

12. YOU ARE TO DRAW THE 4 TYPES OF LOGOS
ON 4 DIFFERENT PRODUCTS. E.G.:
SIGNBOARD, NAPKIN, MENU, CUPS,
SAUCERS, PLATES, PAPER BAG, CAKE
BOX…ETC.
Question 2

13. TYPOGRAPHY LOGO
INITIAL LOGO
COMBINATION LOGO
SYMBOL LOGO

14. Preparatory Work 1
Print 5 Restaurant Logos and paste them.
Create at least 5 different LOGOs.
5 Printed LOGOS
5 Drawn LOGOS

15. Preparatory Work 2

16. Preparatory Work 3
TYPOGRAPHY
INITIAL COMBINATION
SYMBOL

17. THE GROTESQUE IN ART
Question 3

18. Question 3
Think of a personal experience which is
normal or ritualistic in your life. Take this
experience and turn it into a grotesque
scene by adding the Elements of the
Grotesque.
You can make your scene as funny, as
scary, as beautiful, as ugly, or as weird as
you want. It can be SURREAL, ABSTRACT
OR REALISTIC. It can be LANDSCAPE, STILL
LIFE, or PORTRAITURE.

19. USE YOUR PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND IMAGINATION TO
COMPOSE THE ARTWORK. KEEP IN MIND THAT YOU MUST
USE AT LEAST ONE OF THE FIVE ELEMENTS OF THE
GROTESQUE, BUT FEEL FREE TO USE MORE.
(THE FIVE ELEMENTS OF GROTESQUE ARE:
MIXING OF CATEGORIES, EXCESS/MULTIPLICITY,
EXAGGERATION, OMISSION AND MISREPRESENTATION/THE
UNCANNY)
Question 3

20. Grotesque adjective
1. unnatural, bizarre, weird, odd, strange, fantastic, distorted, fanciful,
deformed, outlandish, whimsical, freakish, misshapen, malformed
statues of grotesque mythical creatures
unnatural natural, normal
2. absurd, ridiculous, ludicrous, preposterous, incongruous the
grotesque disparities between the rich and the poor
absurd natural, normal

21. A Grotesque Old Woman

22. Rene Magritte,
Weekend Miscellany III

23. Rene Magritte,
Personal Values

24. Rene Magritte, Not to be Reproduced

25. Siamese Orphan Sculpture

26. Rubix Cube

27. Leonardo da Vinci, "Lady
with Ermine”

28. Preparatory Work 1 (SURREALISM)
Print maximum 2 images of surrealism paintings from
Salvador Dali or Rene Magritte

29. Preparatory Work 2
Draw individual images which you want to substitute from
the images in Prep Work 1.
Change the clock to watch, coke can…etc
Change the comb, bed to something else

30. Preparatory Work 3
2 FINAL LAYOUTS in COLOUR
LAYOUT 1
LAYOUT 2

31. Preparatory Work 1 (GROTESQUE)
Print maximum 2 images of any portrait painting from and
Artists

32. Preparatory Work 2
Draw individual images which you want to substitute from
the images in Prep Work 1.

33. Preparatory Work 3
2 FINAL LAYOUTS in COLOUR