Sunday, 31 January 2016

Edexcel A2 Art Exam 2016 Truth Fantasy And Fiction - Impossible Artwork changing scale


Ron Mueck In Bed 2005


Ron Mueck Boy 2000


Rene Magriette Personal Values 1952


Rene Magriette The Listening Room 1958



Rene Magritte / Le château des Pyrénées


A2 Art Edexcel Exam 2016 Truth Fantasy and Fiction : Impossible Drawings



You can make the impossible look possible by combining high quality observational drawing 





A2 Photography Art Edexcel 2016 Exam Truth Fantasy & And Fiction




Leandro Erlich


Leandro Erlich


Leandro Erlich


Leandro Erlich





Staircase

AS Art Energy Power Dynamism Muybridge





Eadweard Muybridge was an English Landscape photographer who while in America in 1872 was asked by American Horse Breeder to settle an arguement about Horse movement. Using a bank of 12 cameras Muybridge produced series of photos that showed the stages in a movement.

Muybridges series of photos freezing movement were meant as an means of analysing movement, though he quickly realised the prints could be fixed in a zootrope to create a simulated moving image. By 1878-1880 technogy enabled the beginning of moving film,


Salle Gardner at a Gallop animated photos by Muybridge



Edexcel Art Exam 2016 Energy Power And Dynamism Sally McKay Moving Figures





English Artist who draws and paints from dancers

Monday, 11 January 2016

Edexcel GCSE 2016 Past Present And Or Future Photos that change through time

Photos produced to commemorate the 70ths anniversary of the D Day Landings. Contemporary photos of holiday makers have been blended with war time photos taken at the same location during the 1944 landings 


German Bunker at Omaha Landing Beach



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Tourists walk by where the body of a dead German soldier once lay in the main square of Place Du Marche in Trevieres after the town was taken by US troops who landed at nearby Omaha Beach in 1944.

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Blending of two photos produced by the History TV Channel blending wartime Adolf Hitler in Paris with 21st century tourists apparently unaware of just who else had stood years earlier where they now relaxed

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Tom Hussey Photographer

Photographer who prodiced a series of images for a campaign to raise awareness of Alzheimer's. His photos show people who remember the past clearly but are forgetting the present. The reflections are showing what the person is thinking



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Tom Philips

Tom Philips is an artist not a photographer. The shots in his ongoing project 20 Sites n Years are just snapshots, badly cropped passers by, badly parked cars that block the views and even a passing tank appear in his shots of London locations. What is impressive is the fact that for the last 38 years he has taken 20 shots at the same time on the same day each year - and it is the slow change over time that is impressive






Edexcel GCSE Art Exam 2016 Past Present And Or Future - portraits through time

Zed Nelson - Portrait Photography
Zed has taken the same portrait of the same family each year for the last 25 years to show the changes and the process


1991


2012

click here to see web article and the photos from the years inbetween

website showing all photos click here




Nicholas Nixon
The US photographer has taken a portrait of his wife BeBe and her three siblings every year since 1974, making us confront the passing of time, family ties and our own mortality


The Brown Sisters 1975

1975

The Brown Sisters 2014

2015

Web Article with explanation and more photos