This document provides information about ordinary and extraordinary starting points for an art exam question. It discusses ordinary and extraordinary definitions and gives examples of artists such as Andy Warhol, Chris Ofili, and Elizabeth Peyton who have worked with ordinary subjects of people. It also provides starting point categories of objects, places, and the natural world, with examples of artists such as Joseph Cornell, Rachel Whiteread, and Faith Ringgold who have incorporated these elements into their work in extraordinary ways. Students are encouraged to consider these starting points and artists as inspiration for the exam.
3. This is your GCSE Art Exam question.
ordinary
and / or
EXTRAORDINARY...
4. Ordinary Definition:
not different or special or unexpected in any way; usual
Typical, common, customary, routine, familiar
‘Readers of the magazine said they wanted more stories about
ordinary people and fewer stories about the rich and famous.’
Extraordinary Definition
very unusual, special, unexpected or strange
Exceptional, remarkable, unfamiliar, curious
‘He told the extraordinary story of his escape.’
5. Today we will:
THINK about what these words ACTUALLY mean
LOOK at many starting points for this question
DISCOVER artists and designers who could
inspire us on this topic
SHARE ideas with each other
7. Everybody knows... the four AO’s
For the exam you have to show evidence of:
ALL 4 of the AO’s (Assessment Objectives)
AO1: Looking at other artists = 25%
AO2: Experimenting with media = 25%
AO3: Recording your ideas = 25%
AO4: Making a final piece = 25%
8. It is important that you begin working on the
EXAM paper straight away.
START TODAY!
Exam dates….
Tuesday 8th and Wednesday 9th May
10. There are 6 main starting points.
PEOPLE, PLACES, IMAGINATION, O
BJECTS, ACTIVITIES and NATURAL
WORLD.
11. Contextual references
The artists on the next few pages are
suggestions to help you think about possible
ideas.
You may already have ideas of your own.
Keep an open mind at this point...
13. Marc Quinn Robert Bosch
Portrait of Martin Luther King
made out of dominoes.
Quinn is inspired to work with physical deformity.
Looking at fragmented sculptures in the British
Museum, he wondered how viewers would respond
to bodies that had been damaged during their
lifetime rather than after being transformed into
objects through artistic representation.
15. Andy Warhol
‘Elvis. 1962’. Screenprinting on silk. At that time Elvis was seen everywhere-
on TV, magazines, newspapers. The way his image is repeated over and over
seems like a comment on that. The fact that the image of Elvis seems to be
fading away could be significant...
16. Celebrity paintings
Malcolm Farley – ‘Ali’
MaggiHambling– ‘Jackie Laughing’
2005. Oil on canvas.
Elizabeth Peyton – ‘Flower Liam’ 1996. Oil on board.
17. Elizabeth Peyton Peyton painted numerous celebrities in her
distinct style which renders each of her models
with the same red lips, defined eyes and pale
skin.
To the right a good
weblink for MOMA http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?a
gallery for this artist rtist_id=8042
19. Richard Billingham Richard Billingham's photographs of his
family in their Birmingham flat, published
in the book Ray's a Laugh 1996, are a
stark, painful and often humorous study of
the relationships within his own family.
They encapsulate many of the critical
questions relating to the position of the
observer in relation to the observed.
20. YinkaShonibare
Fashion designer and sculpture
artist. These pieces of work
show a very surreal
representation of the human
form.
Scramble For Africa.
The Swing. 2001.
22. John Hedgecoe- Arnold Machin– created the plaster cast of the
Took the photo of the Queen that is used on postage Queen that is used on postage stamps
stamps
This is now a very ordinary sight as we see
it all the time on coins and stamps.
24. Gustav Klimt
Adele Bloch-Bauer 1907. Oil and gold on
canvas. She is clasping her hands (she had a
deformed finger). Dressed in
gold, surrounded by gold. Lots of gold
suggests she is wealthy and important.
The Kiss
26. Cindy Sheerman
Sherman’s photographs are portraits of herself
in various scenarios that parody stereotypes of
women. A panoply of characters and settings
are drawn from sources of popular culture, old
movies, television soaps and pulp fiction.
27. Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian
Renaissance Artist among many other talents. He is
widely considered to be one of the greatest painters
of all time.
28. 'I've always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint
Lucin Freud people. It's people who have brought drama to pictures from the beginning.
The simplest human gestures tell stories.'
Reflection (Self-portrait), 1985
Current exhibition on at the National Portrait Gallery
http://www.npg.org.uk/freudsite/
London 9th Feb – 27th May
31. Shelly Goldsmith
‘No Escape’ -images of flood scenes
had been transfer printed onto Goldsmith’s work uses textile materials
children's dresses. and processes as a metaphor for
imagining how psychological
states, emotions and memories
associated with human fragility and loss
can be made visible in cloth.
35. ‘Five Lipsticks’ Oil on panel.
Kim Kibby
Oil paintings of everyday objects
Tinker
Toy Still
Life - Oil
on
canvas
Summer Delight #2: Flip Flops – Oil on panel
Guitar Headstock -Oil on panel. Little Clay Pots -Oil on panel.
37. Joseph Cornell
Joseph Cornell’s Art
work are collections of
bought and found
objects in boxes.
Cornell collected
source material for his
work, which became
artistic creations about
his inner thoughts,
desires, and ‘Untitled’ (Cocatoo and Corks),
imagination. 1948, 4 3/8 x 13 1/2 x 5 5/8 inchs.
38. Susan Hiller Assembling lots of the same type of object together in groups.
39. William Michael Harnett
Harnett was a very skilled painter. He
wanted to make objects look as realistic
as possible.
He used an assorted collection of
everyday objects to create interesting
compositions for his Art.
To the right: ‘Old
Models’ 1892 Oil on
Canvas
‘A Man's Table Reversed’ 1877 Oil
on Canvas
40. This is a contemporary installation and sculpture. The artist uses
Doris Salcedo familiar objects in ways that become strange and unsettling.
The wardrobe and the clothing inside were filled with concrete so
they became sealed up and unable to be used.
The space between two buildings was filled with chairs, with a
startling effect.
41. Georgiou Morandi Guan Gris
‘NaturaMorta’ (Still Life in Italian) ‘Book, Pipe and Glasses’.
These objects are familiar, yet they are A Cubist style still life painting.
purposely stripped of any identifying
marks such as labels. They are
anonymous. These objects could easily
come from anyone's kitchen.
43. KritiArora- Blackened coats and
heavy trousers are like the skins of the
people employed to build the road-sides.
Hung out to dry by the artist, these
fibres, originally coloured and
textured, appear stiff and impossible to
use as they are drenched in tar.
44. Small scale to large scale...
Louise Bourgeois – Maman, 1999.
Bronze. “The Spider is an ode to my mother.
She was my best friend. Like a spider, my
mother was a weaver. Like spiders, my
mother was very clever. Spiders are friendly
presences that eat mosquitoes. We know
that mosquitoes spread diseases and are
therefore unwanted. So, spiders are helpful
and protective, just like my mother.”
Claes
Oldenburg. Pop
artist. Very large
replica sculptures of
everyday
objects, pictured in
unusual places.
47. Maps
Jasper Johns
Sarah Fanelli
‘Map’ 1961 Oil on canvas
‘Map’ combines a kind of representation,
that is, a map of the United States, with
many issues more common to abstract
painting. Johns combines colour, lines, and
readable gestures (brushstrokes), as well “Map of my Day” 1995
as letting paint speak for itself on flat
canvas surfaces.
48. LS Lowry - Market Scene, Northern
Town, 1939
Manus Walsh
Alfred Wallis
49. Anselm Kiefer – ‘Athanor’. Mixed
media textural painting.
Can the materials that you use give
the place you are depicting a certain
mood or feeling?
Ando Hiroshige – Japanese
woodblock prints, exaggerating the
shapes and pattern seen within a
natural landscape. (Ukiyo-e)
50. Site of nuclear disaster –
Chernobyl, Ukraine. 1986. Ordinary
places left derelict and abandoned take on
a ghostly, spooky quality.
51. Rachel Whiteread– ‘House’
1993.
A concrete cast of the inside of an
entire Victorian terraced
house, exhibited at the location of the
original house — 193 Grove Road — in
East London (all the houses in the
street had earlier been knocked down
by the council).
It also won the Turner Prize in 1993.
Tower Hamlets London Borough
Council demolished House on 11
January 1994.
52. Jacques Villegle
Patrick Heron – 1950. The artist has made
this scene surreal with his use of colour and line.
53. Slinkachu is as a London-based artist who creates
Slinkachu- Little worlds very small street-based installations and then
photographs them: from far away and up-close.
55. Gaudi
The most famous of Gaudi’s work, this church in
Barcelona has been in construction for more than
100 years. Gaudi was a devout Catholic and spent
over 10 years working just on this project.
