GCSE Art Exam Lock / Unlocked Photos of Open Doors and Doorways

 

Lock or Locked - GCSE Edexcel Chess Games

 

Honore Daumier 1863 The Chess Players

John Lavery 1929 The Chess Players

Thomas Eakins 1876 The Chess Players

The Lewis or Uig Chess Pieces

made in 12th Centry

carved from Walrus Ivory or Whale's teeth

“The King Playing With the Queen,” Max Ernst, 1944 (cast 1954).

Edexcel GCSE Art Exam 2023 Interlocking or Interlocked Figures

 

Luca Cambiaso 1545 Composition Sketch for Painting

George Luks The Wrestlers 1905

The Wrestlers (Luks) - Wikipedia

Gustave Courbet 1853

The Wrestlers (Courbet) - Wikipedia

Fernand Leger - The Acrobat and his partner 1948

‘The Acrobat and his Partner‘, Fernand Léger, 1948 | Tate

Edexcel GCSE Art Exam 2023 Interlocking or Interlocked Figures George Bellows

 George Bellows 1882 - 1925

 George Bellows 1882 - 1925

 George Bellows 1882 - 1925

 George Bellows 1882 - 1925

George Bellows | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org)

Edexcel GCSE Art Exam 2023 Locks, Lock Gates and Canals

 

Twyford Lock

Bertram Priestman (1868 -  1951)

Lock Gates 

Bertram Priestman (1868 -  1951)

John Atkinson Grimshaw 1836 - 1893

Leeds Bridge 

GCSE Art Exam 2023 Confined and contained - Illustrator Gustav Dore

 

London - By Rail Illustration by Gustav Dore for 'London' by Douglas Jerrold.

The framing of the railway arch is keyhole or frame like and links to the theme also the confined and packed in yards behind the houses seem confined and locked in.

GCSE Art Exam 2023 Prisoners, Captives and People Locked up

 

This is a well known painting by Vincent Van Gogh. Van Gogh painted it in 1890 while in The Saint Paul Asylum. Less well known is the fact that as he couldn't paint from real life Van Gogh copied from reproductions of others work and book illustrations. This is a copy of an 1872 Book Illustration by Illustrator and Artist Gustav Dore

This is Gustav Dore's illustration from 1872 showing prisoners exercising in a yard at Newgate Prison in London

In the 1970 dystopian film A Clockwork Orange loosely based on the book by Anthony Burgess director Stanley Kubrick took inspiration from the painting for a scene in a detention centre.

Francesco De Goya produced a series of three drypoint prints between 1810 and 1815 showing confined prisoners in leg irons. The faces are shadowed or left indistinct

Link to online exhibition on 'Instruments of Slavery'

Blind Curve (2010) Felix Lucero

Inmate Artist San Quentin Prison

Article link

GCSE Exam 2023 David Olere -Auschwitz Survivor and Artist

 

Olere's first assignment at Auschwitz was as a grave digger. His prisoner number 106144 is seen here both on his shirt and as a tattoo on his left arm.

David Olere waa forced to a member of the Sonderkommando who collected up corpses after gassing. 

 

This is a self portrait 

David Olere (1902 -  1985) was held in Auschwitz Concentration Camp from March 1943 until the end of the War. David began drawing what he saw in the camp towards the end of the war when the guards were more relaxed. Other Artists have produced art works as a record of what they witnesses, but Olere is one of a small number who were able to record their experiences will still in a Concentration Camp

Gassing 

more information David Olère (usf.edu)