Saturday, 7 January 2017

Edexcel GCSE Art Exam 2017 Beginning And Or End Construction Stanley Spencer Shipbuilding On The Clyde 1941


In 1941 Stanley Spencer was comissioned to produce a mural of Shipbuilders on the River Clyde in Scotland. The images below are sections from the huge painting 








Edexcel GCSE Art Exam 2017 Beginning And Or End Buildings and Builders Fernand Leger


Fernand Leger Manufacturers With Aloe 1951


The Builders 1951


Constructors 1950


Constructors 1950


Friday, 6 January 2017

Edexcel GCSE Art Exam 2017 Beginning And Or End Funerary Art




Photograph of Phillippe Pot governor of Burgundy during reign of King Louis XI of France 




Painted sarcophagus of Seianti Hanunia Tiesnasa approx 150 BC Italy 



Edexcel GCSE Art Exam 2017 Beginning And Or End Tom Hussey Photographs

Tom Hussey is an American Photographer who produced a series of staged photographs as part of a promotional campaign for a medication that was being promoted as slowing down the development of dimentia.

The photos are not representative of Tom Husseys work but they are powerful images that explore the different ways that we view people and how they view themselves





Edexcel GCSE Art Exam 2017 Beginning And Or End

John Martin 1789 - 1854

John Martin was an English Landscape Painter and a deeply religious man. He painted a triptych of paintings depicting the end of the world titled  The Last Judgement.


The Plains of Heaven


The last Judgement


The Great Day Of His Wrath

These paintings are huge approx 2 x 3 m and dominate the viewer. We are left feeling small compared to the size and power of the landscape and the forces being displayed.

John Martin was a Romantic Painter and like Turner and Constable and the American Hudson River School (Hudson River School Link)  created paintings where Man was small and Nature, Creationn and by suggestion God was mighty and powerful


John Martin The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, 1852

Another Biblically inspired painting by John Martin that shows the power of landscape and creation compared to puny mankind




Sunday, 2 October 2016

Drawing And Painting on Prepared Surfaces



Ben Nicholson 
1934 Reliefs
White painted wood relief






Tom Phillips 
Painting over prepared book pages from a victorian novel



1973 version

2003 version


Loui Jover


Loui Jover


Loui Jover


Georges Braque Still Life with Gillette 1914



Julian Schnabels 
St Francis at Ecstasy 1980


Julian Schnabels Australia 1986 


Julian Schnabels Australia 1986



Ed Fairburn drawing on maps