Observe Seek Challenge A Level 2024 - Guerrilla Girls

 

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Do Women Have to be Naked to get into Boston Museums 2012

2015

Guerrilla Girls are an anonymous group of female Artists who use their Art works to challenge Sexism and Racism

Lots of other Artist challenge assumptions in their Art

Marcel Duchamp 1917 Fountain

Marcel Duchamp used a toilet as a found object which he signed and placed in a gallery to make it into a work of Art. He said everyday objects were "raised to the dignity of a work of art by the artist's act of choice".

Tracey Emin My Bed 1988

Tracey Emin said if she was an Artist then everything she did was part of a creative process and Art

Observe Seek Challenge A Level Exam 2024 - Kirsty Whitlock

 Kirsty is a Textiles Artist whose work is all about looking at everyday throw away and disposable objects. She is interested in Consumerism as a basis for embroidered pieces

Kirsty Whitlock interview: Embroidery transforms - TextileArtist.org

Observe Seek Challenge - Richard Long - A Line Made By Walking 1967 / Andy Goldsworthy

 This photograph shows a straight line of trampled grass receding towards tall bushes or trees at the far side of what appears to be a field. 

Below the photograph, on the off-white paper mount, are the words ‘A LINE MADE BY WALKING’ (handwritten in red pencil) and, below this, ‘ENGLAND 1967’

The Photograph shows an action or the evidence of a process or action. 

Richard Long says 

"Nature has always been recorded by artists, from prehistoric cave paintings to twentieth-century landscape photography. I too wanted to make nature the subject of my work, but in new ways. I started working outside using natural materials like grass and water, and this evolved into the idea of making a sculpture by walking … My first work made by walking, in 1967, was a straight line in a grass field, which was also my own path, going ‘nowhere’. In the subsequent early map works, recording very simple but precise walks on Exmoor and Dartmoor, my intention was to make a new art which was also a new way of walking: walking as art."

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Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy (1956 -    ) 

British Sculptor

Andy works mostly in the landscape using materials found in the location to make a sculpture he leaves where he made it. Often, as he can sculpt using ice, snow or leaves, the photograph he takes is the only record

If while he is scouting for a location or walking it rains then he will lie down on an interesting piece of ground to create what he calls a rain shadow a dty patch

Rain shadow

St. Abbs, Scotland

June 1984

Leaf horn

Penpont, Dumfriesshire

15 November 1986

Like a Nature based street artist, Andy Goldsworthy leaves the sculptures he has made in location once they are completed and photographed

Sticks and stalks/pushed into muddy lake bottom, Yorkshire, Sculpture Park. 29 April and 8 May 1987

In the Spring and Early Summer of 1987 Andy Goldsworthy was Artist In Residence at The Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Bretton Hall and made a series of natural material sculptural pieces in the Park. As a 1st Year Leeds University Art Student based and living at Bretton Hall, Mr Higgins would have been less than a mile away doing a Drawing, Painting and Printmaking Landscape Project and drawing from the Henry Moore sculptures that were sited around this lake.

A Level Exam 2024 Observe Seek Challenge - Observe - Anthony Green

 

Anthony Green 1939 - 2023 British Painter 

Anthony painted remembered moments ( some times more than one moment in one painting) from his and his families life as if we are looking down into them from above. Using his parents London flat as a painting studio a lot of the older memory paintings contain elements painted directly from real life. 

2024 A Level Art Graphics Photography and Textiles Exam Observe Seek Challenge

  Hokusai produced a series of 36 Woodcut prints between 1830 -  1832 showing views of Mount Fuji in Japan. The Prints were so successful and popular that he produced a further 10 prints on the same theme

Some, like the Great Wave, a symbol of the power of nature with a view point that puts us in a choppy sea far off the coast of Japan are famous. Some use very interesting compositions with use of negative shapes and the Mountain in the background almost like a Wheres Wally.

Mount Fuji seen from a range of different viewpoints is an interesting visual device to connect together the series of prints as well as showing how central the large mountain is in that part of Japan