This document provides guidance for a GCSE Art exam focusing on interpreting the theme of "Force" through looking at artists, experimenting with media, developing ideas, and creating a final piece. It outlines the assessment criteria, suggests starting points like people, places, nature, objects, activities, and imagination, and shares examples of artists that could inspire ideas related to these starting points. Students are encouraged to begin working straight away on the exam in order to meet the submission deadlines in early May.

1. This is your GCSE Art Exam
question.
Force

2. There are many different
meanings of the word FORCE
and how it can be interpreted in
Art.

3. Today we will:
THINK about what the different meanings of the word
LOOK at many starting points for this question
DISCOVER artists and designers who could inspire us
on this topic
SHARE ideas with each other

4. EXAM = 40%

5. Everybody knows... the four
AOs
For the exam you have to show evidence of:
ALL 4 of the AOs (Assessment Objectives)
AO1: Looking at other artists = 10%
AO2: Experimenting with media = 10%
AO3: Recording your ideas = 10%
AO4: Making a final piece = 10%

6. It is important that you begin working on the EXAM
Paper straight away.
START TODAY!
Exam dates….
Thursday 2nd May and Friday
3rd May

7. Where to begin?

9. There are 6 main starting points.
PEOPLE
PLACES
NATURAL WORLD
OBJECTS
ACTIVITIES
IMAGINATION

10. Contextual references
The artists on the next few pages
are suggestions to help you think
about possible ideas. You may
already have ideas of your own.
Keep an open mind at this
point...

11. PEOPLE

12. Francis Bacon
-Explores the “Human Condition”
-Graphic and emotionally raw style of
painting.

13. Shepard Fairey
Popular and influential
street artist and graphic
designer Fairey’s work
has had a brute cultural
impact on contemporary
society. His work
combines elements of
graffiti and advertising
and is often politically-
charged.

14. Pablo Picasso
Picasso created this piece in response to the bombing of Guernica, a country village in Spain during the
Spanish Civil War. Guernica shows the tragedies of war and it’s effect on innocent people.
The painting helped bring the world’s attention to the Spanish Civil War and was displayed around the world
as a symbol of peace.
‘Guernice’ 1937

15. Tom Lea
Thomas Calloway "Tom"
Lea III was a
muralist, illustrator, artist,
war correspondent, novelist
and historian. The bulk of
his art and literary works
were about Texas, north-
central Mexico and his
World War II experience in
the South Pacific and Asia.

16. Karoline Hjorth
From the Series: ‘In Your Face’

17. Barbara Kruger
Kruger is a conceptual artist who uses
juxtaposing images and aggressive text.
She explores the themes of consumerism,
identity and feminism. Her style is
influenced by mainstream advertising.

18. Andy Warhol
Fame infatuated Warhol. His art
reflects an ongoing fascination
with Hollywood and celebrity
culture. In the 1960s, Warhol
achieved his own celebrity status.

19. PLACES

20. Feng Dakang
Feng Dakang is a contemporary
Chinese artist who is obsessed with
architecture, decay and destruction.
Dakang paints man-made structures,
with many details of their beauty, in a
state of semi-decay or destruction.
In China many beautiful buildings are
being destroyed at a fast pace in the
name of development and progress.
Dakang aims to record this tragedy in
his paintings, in an effort to show the
marvel of past human construction.

21. Anselm Kiefer
Kiefer is a German sculptor and painter who explores the
themes of depression and the effects of Nazi rule. He often
incorporates natural materials in his work such as straw,
ash, clay and lead.

22. Walter Martin & Paloma
Muñoz
Snow globes are designed to be
turned upside down. Martin and
Muñoz, though, really turned them
upside down. Where traditional
snow globes are intended to evoke a
pleasant memory, the snow globes of
Martin and Muñoz seem to portend
an anxious future event.
These orbs seem to anticipate
terrible events that might happen, or
might be happening right now to
somebody else.
Where traditional snow globes
depict cheerful scenes, Martin and
Muñoz give us eerie scenes, scenes
rife with anxiety and uncertainty,
scenes that reside in the darker parts
of the human psyche.

23. Jeanette Barnes
Barnes draws the energy within a city, things being
built, speeding cars, people. She uses trial and error
to make several sketches. The drawing have
raw, unfinished quality to them.

24. Mimmo Rotella
Rotella was an Italian
artist and poet, best
known for his works of
decollage and
psychogeographics, made
from torn advertising
posters

25. NATURAL
WORLD

26. Ando Hiroshige
Hiroshige was a Japanese painter and printmaker who was known
especially for his landscape prints. He often explores the force of nature in
his Art.

27. Joseph Mallord William
Turner
Turner was
a British
Romantic
landscape
painter, wat
er colourist
and
printmaker
Snow Storm – Steam- Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth

28. Simon Heijdens Simon Heijdens work investigates the
relationship between nature and new
technologies. The branches of these trees
blow in response to the wind.

29. Doris Salcedo
Doris Salcedo
is a
Colombian
born Sculptor
who addresses
the question of
forgetting and
memory in her
installation
artwork.

30. Roni Horn You are the Weather (1994-1996)
Horn's first photographic
installation, You Are The
Weather (1994-1996), a
photographic cycle
featuring 100 close-up
shots of the same woman,
Margret (aged 15) in a
variety of Icelandic
geothermal pools, deals
with the enigma of
identity captured through
a series of facial
expressions dictated by
imperceptible weather
changes.

31. David Hockney
Hockney is a British
painter, draughtsman, printmaker, photographer and
designer. Some of his most recent work uses film, painting
and the ipad to create Art work which explores the changes
seasons have on the landscape.
(images from Woldgate Woods)

32. Sam Taylor-Wood
‚Still Life‛ (2001)
This time-lapse
film of peaches
ripening and
then rotting
draws upon the
conventions of
still life
painting, as its
title suggests.

33. OBJECTS

34. Shelly Goldsmith
Goldsmith’s work uses textile
‘No Escape’ -images of flood scenes materials and processes as a metaphor
had been transfer printed onto for imagining how psychological
children's dresses. states, emotions and memories
associated with human fragility and
loss can be made visible in cloth.

35. Bill Woodrow Woodrow is an English sculptor. In
1980 he first devised his characteristic
method of making sculpture, forming
a new object or objects from the skin of
found domestic appliances.
Woodrow worked in such a way as to
leave evident the original identities of
the constituent items as well as the
mode of transformation.

36. Alexander McQueen
Alexander McQueen was a British fashion
designer and couturier best known for his in-
depth knowledge of British tailoring.
He often juxtaposes strength with fragility in
his collection as well as the emotional power
and raw energy of his provocative fashion
shows

37. Clare Twomey
Clare Twomey's Specimen, 2009

38. Cornelia Parker
Cornelia Parker creates large-scale installations to
transform common objects and investigate the nature
of matter.

39. Jean Tinguley
Jean Tiguley is a Swiss painter and sculptor well
known for his kinetic art (moving sculptures).
Tinguely's art is in response to the overproduction of
material goods in advanced industrial society.

40. ACTIVITIES

41. Yukinori Yanagi
Yukinori Yanagi's work explores
themes relating to his position
as a Japanese artist living and
working in an international
context, as well as broader
issues about identity within
social or national constructs.

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

43. ‚I’ve spent the last 25 years of
Lois Greenfield my photographic career
investigating movement and its
expressive potential. My
inspiration has always 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
http://www.loisgreenfield.com/
galleries/index.html

44. Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard
Muybridge was an
English
photographer
important for his
pioneering work in
photographic
studies of motion
and in motion –
picture projection.

45. Sam Taylor Wood

46. Brice Marden

47. Jackson Pollock
Pollock was an American painter, the
chief pioneer of Abstract
Expressionism.
He created enormous drip paintings.
He painted in a tool shed where he
could lay his canvas on the floor, and
drip and splatter paint across it
without worrying about ruining the
walls or floor.
Rather than paint a landscape or a
portrait, Pollock wanted to paint
action. When you look at one of his
drip paintings, your eye wanders
across the entire canvas in constant
motion.

48. Wassily Kandinsky
Kandinsky used colour in a highly
theoretical way associating tone
with timbre (the sound's
character), hue with pitch, and
saturation with the volume of
sound. He even claimed that when
he saw colour he heard music.

49. Roy Lichtenstein
Beginning in 1962 Lichtenstein borrowed
images of explosions from popular war
comics for use in his paintings. The subject
embodies the revolutionary nature of Pop Art
and suggests the very real threat of
annihilation by nuclear explosion that was
prevalent at that time (the Cuban Missile
Crisis occurred in 1962). But Lichtenstein was
also interested in the way dynamic events like
explosions were depicted in the stylised
format of comic book illustration.

50. IMAGINATION

51. Cindy Sherman
Sherman’s photographs are portraits of
herself in various scenarios that parody
stereotypes of women. A panoply of
characters and settings are drawn from
sources of popular culture, old movies,
television soaps and pulp fiction.

52. Gregory Crewdson
Gregory Crewdson
is an American
photographer who
is best known for
elaborately staged
scenes of American
homes and
neighborhoods

53. Jessica Tremp
'When I was little I used to dream about
being a dancer or that I could fly and that I
would learn to speak the language of the
animals in the forest or that of the most
dramatic actor. With the click of a finger
I’ve found a way to make these things
come true'

54. Rene Magritte
Rene Magritte was part of the
Surrealist art movement.