1. Natural Forms
Year 9

2. GCSE: Assessment Objectives
AO1: RESEARCH – IMAGES & ARTISTS
Develop your ideas through investigations informed by contextual and other
sources, demonstrating analytical and cultural understanding.
AO2: EXPERIMENTS WITH MEDIA
Refine your ideas through experimenting and selecting appropriate resources,
media, materials, techniques and processes.
AO3: IDEAS, OBSERVATIONAL DRAWINGS & EXPLANATIONS
Record ideas, observations and insights relevant to your intentions in visual
and/or other forms.
AO4: FINAL IDEA & FINAL PIECE, LINKS WITH ARTISTS
Present a personal, informed and meaningful response demonstrating
analytical and critical understanding, realising intentions and making
connections between visual or other elements.

3. What are Natural Forms?
• Natural forms are objects in nature in their
original form.
• Examples:-

4. What are Natural Forms?
• Natural forms are objects in nature in their
original form.
• Examples:-
• Leaves, flowers, pine cones, seaweed,
shells, bones, insects, stones, fossils,
crystals, feathers, birds, fish, animals – in
fact anything you can find in nature –
complete or part of it.

5. Some key words...
Nature
Texture
Form .
Composition
Tone
Pattern
C o ntra s t

6. Natural Form Artist Boards
AO1
For your Year 9 project you are going to
be creating an Artist board researching
Artists that use Natural Forms in their
work.
AO2
You are also going to be experimenting
with different medias using pencil, paint
and print.

7. Natural Forms
BOARDS

8. Mono-chrome
The first Artist you need to research
should be an Artist that works
primarily in Mono-chrome. You are
going to create your own transcription
in addition to finding out facts and
adding your opinions on their work.

9. Karl Blossfeldt 1865-1932
• Karl Blossfeldt is best
known for his beautiful
photographs of plant
forms.
• Originally, the photographs
were intended to be used
as teaching aids and
making sculptures, but
became popular when a
selection of his
photographs were
published in the book
Urformen der Kunst
(Archetypes of Art) in
1928.

10. Karl Blossfeldt
Plate # 76: Eranthis cilicica (magnified 8
Plate # 56: Aspidium filix mas (magnified 4
times)Photogravure, printed in 1928.
times)Photogravure, printed in 1928.

11. Karl Blossfeldt
Plate # 77: Cephalaria (magnified 10 Plate # 92: Acanthus mollis (magnified 4
times)Photogravure, printed in 1928. times)Photogravure, printed in 1928.

12. Karl Blossfeldt
Photogravures Urformen der Kunst 1929

13. Karl Blossfeldt
Photogravures Urformen der Kunst 1929

14. Edward Weston 1886-1958
Weston explored natural form through black and white photography.
Pepper, 1930negative, Cole Weston print
Shell, 1927 Vintage gelatin silver print

15. Andy Goldsworthy 1956 - present
Andy Goldsworthy
is a British artist
who works with
nature, natural
form and the
natural
environment to
make his
creations.
(to the right)
Carefully broken
pebblesscratched
white with another
stoneSt. Abbs,
Scotland1 June 1985

16. Peter Randall-Page 1954 - Present
Peter Randall-Page is an extraordinary British sculptor and visual artist whose
connection to nature began in the Sussex countryside. For Randall-Page, organic
forms are places to begin, shapes that push the artist to explore his own response to
them.
Three Fruit , Kilkenny limestone, 1986

17. Peter Randall-Page
Three Graces 1994 ,Etching on paper

18. Peter Randall-Page
Drawings for Overbecks, pen and ink, 1990

19. Painting
The second Artist you need to
research should be an Artist that
works primarily with paint. You are
going to create your own transcription
in addition to finding out facts and
adding your opinions on their work.

20. Georgia O’Keefe 1887-1986
• O’Keefe was an
American artist
who lived in the
arid Arizona
desert.
• She painted still
life natural forms
of objects found
around in her
environment.
Red Poppy, Oil Painting, 1927

21. Georgia O’Keefe
• O’Keefe’s
paintings are
beautifully
contoured
forms,
realistically
painted but
using unusual
combinations
of objects.
• She expertly
painted subtle
tones and
colours.
Ram's Skull, Oil Painting, 1935

22. Yayoi Kusama 1929 - present
PUMPKIN (TOTW) Acrylic on
canvas 2003
• Kusama is a Japanese American artist who works
in a wide variety of media and techniques – prints,
sculptures and installations.
• Her starting point is often natural form.

23. Raoul Dufy
1877 - 1953
Dufy was a
French Fauvist
painter. He
developed a
colourful,
decorative style
that became
fashionable for
designs and
ceramics.
Strauß Aronstab 1939

24. Paul Cezanne Paul Cézanne was a French Post- Impressionist
1839 -1906 painter.
Still Life with Apples, Oil Painting 1890

25. Henri Matisse 1869 - 1954
Henri Matisse was a French artist, known for his use of colour. He was a
draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter.
Bouquet of Flowers in a White Vase, Oil Painting
1909

26. Henri Matisse
La Gerbe, one of Matisse's latest works
(1953).

27. Vincent Van Gogh 1953 - 1890
Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work has far-
reaching influence on 20th Century art due to its vivid colours and emotional impact.
"Irises” Oil
Painting
1889

28. Paul Nash Paul Nash was an English landscape
1889 - 1846 painter, surrealist and war artist. Here
is one of his ‘natural surrealism’
pieces inspired by found objects
Flight of the Magnolia, Oil on Canvas, 1944

29. Juan Cotan
1561 - 1627
Born in Orgaz, Spain.
He is a painter who is
considered one of the
pioneers of Baroque
realism in Spain. A
profoundly religious
man, he is best
known for his still
lifes, which in their
visual harmony and
illusion of depth
convey a feeling of
Still Life with Dead Birds, Fruit and
humility and mystic Vegetables, Detail, 1602
spirituality.

30. Juan Cotan
Still life with Game Fowl,Vegetables and Fruit 1602

31. Rachel
Ruysch
1664 - 1750
Rachel Ruysch was a
Dutch artist who
specialized in still-life
paintings. She was
one of three
significant female
artists in Dutch
Golden Age painting.
Still life of a tulip, a melon and flowers on
a ledge, Oil Painting

32. Damien
Hirst
1965 to present
Hirst explores
the uncertainty
at the core of
human
experience;
love, life,
death, loyalty
and betrayal
through
unexpected
and
unconventional Psalm 27: Hirst's butterfly and enamel
paint on canvas
media.

33. Damien Hirst
"Happy Head No 7,” gloss household paint on resin skull
and wooden base, 9 1/2 by 9 by 9 1/2 inches, 2007

34. Patrick
Caulfield
1936 – 2005
Patrick Caulfield was an
English painter and
printmaker.
In the early 1960s
Caulfield’s painting was
characterised by flat
images and objects paired
with angular geometric
devices. He adopted the
technique of the sign
painter simplifying objects
to a basic black.
'Study of Roses', 1976 Acrylic on canvas

35. Print-making
The third Artist you need to research
should be an Artist that works
primarily with print. You are going to
create your own transcription in
addition to finding out facts and
adding your opinions on their work.

36. Patrick Caulfield
1936 – 2005
Patrick Caulfield was an
English painter and
printmaker.
In the early 1960s
Caulfield’s painting was
characterised by flat
images and objects paired
with angular geometric
devices. He adopted the
technique of the sign
painter simplifying objects
to a basic black.
Fruit and Bowl, Print (Screen Print)
1979-1980

37. Andy Warhol
1928 – 1987
Andy Warhol, was an American
painter, printmaker and
filmmaker who was a leading
figure in the visual art
movement known as ‘Pop Art’
Warhol used bright flat colours in
his images. He changes the
colours to create his own
individual piece of Art work.
"Flowers” - 1964 - 1970 printing
Serigraph

38. Andy Warhol
Flower For Tacoma DomeScreenprint on Lenox
Museum Board. 1982

39. Andy Warhol
Kiku, 1983

40. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 –1849
Hukusai was a Japanese painter and printmaker of the Edo period. He was one of
Japan’s leading experts on Chinese painting. He his best known for his woodblock print
series
Pivoine, flowers, woodcut print, japanese, butterfly, 1800s, 1900s,

41. Katsushika Hokusai
The Great Wave Off Kanagawa From "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji";
1823-29, Color woodcut,

42. M.C Esher
1898 - 1972
Esher was a
Dutch graphic
artist. He is best
known for his
often
mathematically
inspired
woodcuts,
lithographs and
mezzotints.
Sky & Water I, woodcut, 1938

43. Paul Morrison 1966 - present
1966 Screenprint

44. Melanie Wickhan - present
The Artist’s website….
http://www.melaniewickham.co.uk/inde
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Pears 9cm x 11cm