The document provides information on various artists and their works related to different themes: activities, the natural world, imagination, and timeline. It includes brief biographies of artists like Martha Rosler, Richard Hamilton, Zaha Hadid, Georgia O'Keefe, Yayoi Kusama, Henri Matisse, Vincent Van Gogh, Luke Jerram, Carl Warner, David Hockney, Damien Hirst, Tacita Dean, Manus Walsh, Arthur Rackham, Paula Rego, Brian Froud, Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Carel Weight, Anthony Green, William Blake, M.C. Escher, Alberto Schommer, and Rafal Olbinski.

1. ACTIVITIES

2. Martha Rosler– ‘Cleaning the
Drapes’
Ben Shahn. 1946. captured
scenes of ordinary
life, poverty, and protest
inManhattan with his camera.
His photographs were an
inspiration for
hisdrawings, paintings and
prints that were a kind of
social commentary.
Richard Hamilton

3. John Salt – photorealist painting
Laura Knight - painting
Duane Hanson – Tourists. 1988 Gregory Crewdson- photographer

4. ZahaHadid– unusual buildings and structures. This is a
performing arts centre in Abu Dhabi.
And a civil court building in Madrid.

5. Robert Delaunay – The Runners
Nestor Kirchner - paintings

6. Edgar Degas
"Three Studies of A Dancer," by Edgar Degas,
The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer
- (Bronze) cast in 1922

7. “I’ve spent the last 25 years of my
Lois Greenfield photographic career investigating
movement and its expressive
http://www.loisgreenfield.com/gal potential. My inspiration has always
leries/index.html been photography’s ability to stop
time and reveal what the naked eye
cannot see. My interest in
photography is not to capture an
image I see or even have in my
mind, but to explore the potential of
moments

8. NATURAL WORLD

9. Jean Arp- Feuille se Reposant
(RestingLeaf) 1959
Angie Lewin - Printmaking

10. Sam Taylor-Wood

11. Elizabeth Blackadder – botanical drawing and
painting.
Carol Sims – acrylic on canvas

12. Sophie Ryder

13. Karl Blossfeldt
Monochrome photography of natural forms such as flowers, seed
pods.

14. Edward Weston
Weston explored natural form through black and white photography.
Shell, 1927 Vintage gelatin silver print

15. Andy Goldsworthy 1956 - present
Andy Goldsworthy
is a British artist
who works with
nature, natural
form and the
natural
environment to
make his creations.
(to the right) Carefully
broken
pebbles scratched
white with another
stone St.
Abbs, Scotland 1 June
1985

16. Georgia O’Keefe
• O’Keefe’s
paintings are
beautifully
contoured
forms, realistica
lly painted but
using unusual
combinations
of objects.
• She expertly
painted subtle
tones and
colours.
Ram's Skull, Oil Painting, 1935

17. Yayoi Kusama 1929 - present
PUMPKIN (TOTW) Acrylic on canvas
2003
Kusama is a Japanese American artist who works in a wide variety of media
and techniques – prints, sculptures and installations.
Her starting point is often natural form.

18. Henri Matisse
La Gerbe, one of Matisse's latest works
(1953).

19. Vincent Van Gogh 1953 - 1890
Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work has far-reaching
influence on 20th Century art due to its vivid colours and emotional impact.
"Irises” Oil
Painting 1889

20. Luke Jerram
Flu virus
Glass sculptures of viruses

21. Extraordinary
colours and forms
in nature –
volcano, ash cloud
and the Northern
Lights

22. Carl Warner
Everything you see in these images
can be found in the kitchen.
Photographer Carl Warner has
painstakingly captured all kinds of
food in a series of still lifes.
Below is a useful website about his work
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7186989.stm

23. David Hockney
Hockney’s recent work
has been created on his
ipad and his iphone this
one is considering the
Natural World
Below is the Royal Academy
website
http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/h
ockney/
Exhibition at the Royal Academy London -21 January - 9 April 2012

24. Damien
Hirst
1965 to present
Hirst explores
the uncertainty
at the core of
human
experience;
love, life, death,
loyalty and
betrayal through
unexpected and
unconventional
media.
Psalm 27: Hirst's butterfly and enamel paint on
canvas

25. IMAGINATION

26. Tacita Dean
Tacita Dean trained as a painter and
now works in a variety of media,
including drawing, photography
and sound but is best known for
her compelling 16mm films.
Dean's work finds connections
between past and present, fact
and fiction.

27. Manus Walsh
Manus Walsh’s work
has been described
as
cubist, abstract, imp
ressionist, surreal, n
aturalistic and
romantic.

28. Arthur Rackham Arthur Rackham was an illustrator in the late 19th and early
20th century.
Rackham’s work depicts mythology, folklore and fable

29. Paula Rego
A number of her prints relate
specifically to children's
literature, to fairy tales,
nursery rhymes and longer
fictional works which have a
wide popular appeal.
Below.. a good link about the Artist and
LITTLE MISS MUFFET 1989
her work
http://collection.britishcouncil.org/collection/a
rtist/5/18742/object/40023/

30. Brian Froud- Magical Creatures

31. Alice in
Wonderland
Fairy tales
Fables
Mythology
Storytelling
and narrative

32. Salvador Dali – The Persistence Of Memory. 1931.

33. Swans Reflecting Elephants 1937

34. Rene Magritte and the Surrealist art
movement.

35. Carel Weight – Paintings that
seem to communicate ordinary
and extraordinary at the same
time...

36. Anthony
Green –
watercolour
painting

37. William Blake – poet
and painter. A lot of
his work was about
religion and
mythology.

38. M C Escher – graphic artist who
made repeating patterns into artwork and
impossible structures.
Alberto Schommer–
photography. 1990.

39. RafalOlbinski
Ana Maria Pacheco,
'An Ancient Dark Night
Descended Upon My Soul',
2010.

40. Every group has a large sheet of paper
and some pens.
TALK to people in your group.
LISTEN to people in your group.
WORK together.
You have 5 minutes to make a MIND MAP of as
many thoughts and ideas as you can.
After 5 minutes we will swap over. Everybody gets
to discuss each idea.

41. Timeline
Week beginning >>>>>> 2012:
Initial introduction to Exam theme
Group brainstorming / discussion
Mind map / brainstorm on areas of interest (1 page)
Initial response- drawing or collecting of imagery (2 pages)
Chosen 1st artist info page (title, images and annotations 2 pages)
Homework will be gathering of images / making drawings for this theme.