4. Site specific art
Why was ‘House’ so controversial?
Why did it provoke such hostilities?
Rachel Whiteread
5. •Photography of simple images
•On billboards to reach a wider audience
•To share and communicate ideas
•Poetic images
•Presence and absence
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
12. The artist as Outsider
The notion of the artist as an outsider
has fuelled many ideas and narratives
in art history.
What made Van Gogh an outsider?
Why was his genius not recognised in
his life time?
“….artists careers are largely created and built
on social and business connections not talent”
Discuss the above viewpoint.
13. The Artist as outsider
What factors made R.B Kitaj an
outsider in Britain?
Why was his last major
retrospective savaged by the
critics? What were the effects of
this?
Read the following article ‘RB
Kitaj: an obsession with
revenge’ and discuss.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/fe
14. Portals
Doorways, windows, and mirrors have all been used by artists as
devices to allow the viewer glimpses into secret places.
Van Eyck Velasquez
15. Self-Portraits
Look at self-portraits by
Stanley Spencer and
Lucian Freud.
Using a mirror
Create self-portraits
showing different
viewpoints.
Consider overall
composition and mood.
Lucian Freud
16. Alternative lesson
Explore and experiment
with self-portraits through
photography and an
empty picture frame.
Produce different studies
from these in the
sketchbook.
Linear and tonal drawing.
17. Homework
2 pages of artist
research and analysis on
self-portraits by Stanley
Spencer or Lucian Freud.
Complete a detailed self-
portrait in your
sketchbook as a
response to one of these
artists.
Stanley Spencer
18. Drawing Natural objects
Make detailed studies
of fruit, focusing on
contrast between
inner and outer
surfaces.
Avigdor Arikha
19. Drawing Natural objects
Draw and paint prawns
from direct observation.
Focus on showing
transparency: internal
organs can be seen
through their outer
skins.
20. Alternative Lesson
Create clay slabs
and make
impressions using
natural objects.
Make similar
impressions made
of synthetic objects.
Cast in plaster, or
fire and glaze.
Link to the Boyle Family
21. Land art
View and discuss
the work of Andy
Goldsworthy.
Create work
outside in response
to this.
Document through
photography. Annotate pages to put the work in context.
23. Casting
Use a ball of clay to
record an impression
of the inside of
closed hands.
Now cast hands
closed in mod rock to Gabriel Orozco
create the outside.
Photograph both
outcomes.
George Segal
24. •Displacements
Homework •Incidental moments
•Element of chance
•The Found object
Gabriel Orozco
2 pages of artist research on Gabriel Orozco.
Focus on the meaning and intentions behind his work.
Create your own response to his interventions and displacements
using photography.
25. Alternative Lesson
Look at ‘Altneuland’ the
photographs of Amit Sha’al.
Use found images of the
school in black and white.
Hold them out and
photograph them in
perspective to create a
similar illusion.
30. Homework
2 pages of artist research on George Shaw.
Focus on the meaning and intentions behind his work.
Create your own response to his paintings inside and outside of your book.
Work from photographs you have taken of a location.
