1. Similarities and/or Differences

2. Evolution
The theory of evolution
how we and all living
creatures have
changed and
developed over the
millennia. Looking at
the similarities and
differences in species,
shape, size and
colour.

3. Twins/family/siblings
Could similarities and differences in your family or
people you know be a starting point for investigation?
Diane Arbus- Twins The Jackson family
(photographer)

4. Change/Time-past/present
Clarisse d'Arcimoles- this
Looking at images of places past and
photographer has recreated a
present can be interesting. You may be
childhood photograph. It makes us
able to create some of your own
play spot the difference.

5. Plastic surgery
Right or wrong its here to stay. You could investigate
humans obsession with perfection by changing their
outer appearance.
Jenny Saville
investigates surgery
in her striking paintings

6. Cultural
• Similarities & Differences in language,
customs, religions etc.. Between various
cultures and nationalities the world
over could provide a starting point for
ideas...
Yinka Shonibare mixes
western Victorian style
dress design with
traditional African fabric.
Raising questions of
differences in culture,
class and identity.

7. Technological Evolution
Kyle Beans – Mobile evolution
Similarities and differences in
technological changes and
developments could be a
theme you choose to explore.
The artist Kyle Beans has
looked at mobiles and
recreated them in card to slot
inside each other like russian
dolls.

8. Repetition/pattern • In nature...
You could create drawings and photographs of natural patterns. Aerial photos of the
Earth, animals, plants, flowers, microscopic close ups, fractal patterns

9. Contrast-visual/ abstract
Frank Stella
Victor
Vasarelly
Chris Wood
Bridget Riley (female)

10. Surreal/ metamorphosis
Sarah Lucas The concept of something
changing into or replaced by
another links well with
similarities and differences.
MC Escher
Rene Magritte
Sarah often changes an object
or recreates it in an unusual or
humorous way. Here she has
made a ‘drag-on’ to represent
her addiction to cigarettes. She
is often highly controversial.

11. Contemporary Painting
Lisa Milroy
Michael Craig-Martin

12. Box art
Sue Blackwell and Joseph Cornell are famous
artists that create their art inside boxes.
Look here for more box art ideas...
http://commonboxproject.blogspot.com/2009/01/inspiration-others-box-art.html

13. Pottery/Ceramics
Dan
Grayson Perry Baldwin
Dan and Grayson mix up classic and contemporary art ideas and imagery. They
both use classic vase shapes that they decorate with modern graphic imagery.
Dan’s paintings often explore death and nightmares.
Grayson’s work is often controversial.

14. Textile/Fabric Art
All of these fabric artists use traditional textile
Techniques such as; patchwork, embroidery
and tapestry. The contrast or difference in their
work is that they use modern imagery, text and
designs, sometimes controversial to make their
work original and interesting.
Tracey Emin
Jenny Hart Grayson Perry

15. Photography
Photography is an excellent medium to
show similarities, differences and change
Muybridge Shirin Neshat
Zhang Huang
Elliot Erwitt Annette Messinger

16. Diane Arbus
Diane was a photographer
who focused on unusual
characters and the similarities
and differences to those
around them. Her photos
make you stop and inspect
them often comparing those
in the image.

17. Banksy
Famous British street artist. Known mostly for his
graffitti stencil art but also an accomplished painter
and social satirist. Every piece has a meaning and
often questions the modern world and the way we
live our lives. The message is usually anti-war, anti-
capitalist, anti-establishment or pro-freedom.

18. Sculpture
Anish Kapoor
Claes Oldenburg
These are all very different
artist/sculptors in their style but can
all be linked well to the Sim’ & dif’
Rachel Whiteread
theme. Looking at scale, change,
negative space and colour Jim Lambie

19. More sculpture....
• Anthony Gormley Andy Goldsworthy

20. Collage
Collage is a
medium of
contrasts and
differences in itself.
Artists here have
used different
images and sources
to create montages
of several images
into one.
Robert Rauschenburg Andrew Barrow
John Stezaker Peter Blake

21. Art of other cultures- Islamic Tiles
The patterns of Ancient Islamic tile
designs have inspired many artists
over the years. These designs are
repetitive (similarities) and yet
change frequently (differences). They
tend to be geometric and often use
symmetry across their designs.
Could link up well with abstract art...

22. African Adrinka symbols
The design of African
Adrinka symbols links to
the theme due to its
repetition, they are also
similar to each other in
that they tend to be
black outline designs. It
can be linked in terms of
cultural differences also.
Could link up well with
Yinka Shonibare...

23. Russian dolls
• A matryoshka doll, or babushka doll
is a Russian nesting doll which is a set
of dolls of decreasing sizes placed
one inside the other. It shows a
recognizable relationship of "object-
within-similar-object" that appears in
the design of many other natural and
man-made objects.

24. Remember the main thing is to have fun
with your art and experiments!