pass -Candidates produce a basic health
and safety plan for the studio that
takes into account Health and
Safety regulations and their impact
on hazards and the preventive
measures needed to avoid
accidents in the studio.
merit -Candidates produce a competent
health and safety plan for the studio
which takes into account a range of
hazards in the studio and makes
accurate conclusions as to the
preventive measures required and
the impact on the whole picture by
the over-riding requirements of the
health and safety regulations.
Thursday, 3 March 2011
AO1 artists and designers
Pablo Picasso
1881 - 1973
Pablo picasso was a spanish artist but most of his work was published in france. Pablo is one of the most famous artists of all time.
Subject, themes and issues
Picasso was a rebel as a teenager, in his teenage years Picasso spent alot of time in the Barcelona cafes where alot of people gathered. He soon went to Paris and looked on the works of Manet, Gustave Courbet, and Toulouse-Lautrec, whos sketchy style impressed Picasso. Then he went back to Spain, a return to France, and again back to Spain this happenend in 1899 to 1904. Before he went onto Cubism, Picasso went through a number of styles this include realism, caricature, the Blue Period, and the Rose Period. The Blue Period dates from 1901 to 1904 and where created blue palette and subjects focusing on outcasts, beggars, and prostitutes.
The painting the Weeping Woman is a cubist portrate of picasso's mistres Dora Maar, it is
thematicvally linked the painting Guernica and represents universal suffering, the weeping
woman is a direct development from the earlier painting Guernica, and while Guernica was
inspired by an actual event by the time Picasso came to paint The Weeping woman he was
interested in the general concept of tragedy and suffering. the picture i have chosen of the
crying woman is the last of a series of ever more detailed pictures of a crying woman.
If The Weeping Woman was the starting point Guernica was the starting, it represents the
bombing of Guernica by German and Italian war-planes at the behest of the fascist spanish
goverment of franco. Guernica is about the tragedy of the bombing especially to innocent
civilians, at the same time the picture helped bring the spanish civil war to the worlds attentoin
since then it has become a potent anti war symbol.
The three musicians by picasso is an example of synthetic cubism. The look of the painting
is inspired by cut paper and it is clear from the finished peice that picasso was trying to get
the flat angular look of a collaged picture, this look was somewhat used in Guernica as
picasso has tried to simulate the look of new print in once part of the picture to represent
how he had first heard about the bombing.
Movements, styles
Picasso went throught many different periods in his life, the most well known of his periods are the blue period which contains work making use of dark blues and containing thin sickly looking characters, it is generally the given thought that these images are a reflection of Picasso as a poor artist living in poverty at the begining of his carear. The Rose Period came next and heralds a change in direction with bright colours and warm colours being extensively used in his work, a feature often seen in Picasso's rose period work is the harlequin and other street entertainers. This period of Picassos's work reflects his sucsess in paris and also the start of a new relationship with an artist model.
His African inspired period came next and shows Picasso's interest in african culture and art, his work from this time looks like tribal paintings and sculpture, this eventually lead into his most recongnisable period, Cubism. The Cubist Period saw Picasso collaborate with other artists and push his style in ever more diverse and interesting ways. Cubism attempted to deconstruct how objects are viewed. The easiest way to understand cubism is to think about it as trying to look at an object from all directions and then demonstrate it in one image. What you are left with are slices of different view points reformed and next to each other, In the weeping woman it is clear to see this effect as we see two eyes as if viewed from the front and then the nose as viewed from the side. Picassos's use of cubism merges into the artistic style Surrealism and this was a style that Picasso was an influence on and influenced by Picasso. Guernica is a good example of Picasso's use of surrealism, It contains grey tonal symbolic imagery, the image of the minatour in Guernica is a feature that figures in several surrealist artists work. The hidden symbolism of Guernica is especially representative of the surrealist style, and was something Picasso clearly reveled in, especially as he refused to explain what the images mean't and stated quite clearly that it was his intention that people should come to their own conclusions about the meanings with it.
Materials and processes
Picasso worked in a variety of different mediums during his life and he produced a vast amount of artwork. By the time he died he was estimated to have produced 1,885 paintings; 1,228 sculptures; 2,880 ceramics, roughly 12,000 drawings, many thousands of prints, and numerous tapestries and rugs. Picasso was classically trained by his father who was a painter himself who taught at a variety of art schools in Spain this is refelected in the materials and techniques used by the young Picasso who's materials of choice are charcoals, pencil and oils. As Picasso grew older and began to take an interest in different art work and cultures his processes and materials changed to meet the needs of his ever developing and evolving interests and artistic styles. The examples of Picasso's work I have chosen are all oil on canvass paintings, they would have been first sketched out with charcoal or pencil then painted on with Picasso building up layers of paint and thinning his paint down with turpentine and other thinning agents to get the right effect. The three paintings I have chosen are are influenced by cubism and surrealism, The technique calls for blocks of colours with only limited use of gradients, thick black lines and bold shapes are used to form shapes, the Three Musicians makes use of texture and pattern which is a key feature of cubism. Many of Picasso's other cubist work makes use of cut up newspaper cuttings and fabric, this collage effect is simmulated well in the three musicians and defines it as a typical cubist picture. Guernica and the Weeping woman are very similiar in how they are constructed and I would imagine that the process of constructing them was similiar. Guernica differes from the weeping woman
Events, trends
The Spanish civil war has a large impact on two of the paintings I have selected, it directly inspired Guernica and that in turn and the concepts of loss and suffering resonate in the Weeping woman.
The three musicians represents the Cubist movement that Picasso and Georgee Braque where leading lights of. Its shattered and reformed collage style reflects the Cubist movement among artists of the earliest 20th century
Painting Title: Three Musicians 1921
Oil on canvas
Painting Title: The weeping woman 1937
Oil on canvas
1881 - 1973
Pablo picasso was a spanish artist but most of his work was published in france. Pablo is one of the most famous artists of all time.
Subject, themes and issues
Picasso was a rebel as a teenager, in his teenage years Picasso spent alot of time in the Barcelona cafes where alot of people gathered. He soon went to Paris and looked on the works of Manet, Gustave Courbet, and Toulouse-Lautrec, whos sketchy style impressed Picasso. Then he went back to Spain, a return to France, and again back to Spain this happenend in 1899 to 1904. Before he went onto Cubism, Picasso went through a number of styles this include realism, caricature, the Blue Period, and the Rose Period. The Blue Period dates from 1901 to 1904 and where created blue palette and subjects focusing on outcasts, beggars, and prostitutes.
The painting the Weeping Woman is a cubist portrate of picasso's mistres Dora Maar, it is
thematicvally linked the painting Guernica and represents universal suffering, the weeping
woman is a direct development from the earlier painting Guernica, and while Guernica was
inspired by an actual event by the time Picasso came to paint The Weeping woman he was
interested in the general concept of tragedy and suffering. the picture i have chosen of the
crying woman is the last of a series of ever more detailed pictures of a crying woman.
If The Weeping Woman was the starting point Guernica was the starting, it represents the
bombing of Guernica by German and Italian war-planes at the behest of the fascist spanish
goverment of franco. Guernica is about the tragedy of the bombing especially to innocent
civilians, at the same time the picture helped bring the spanish civil war to the worlds attentoin
since then it has become a potent anti war symbol.
The three musicians by picasso is an example of synthetic cubism. The look of the painting
is inspired by cut paper and it is clear from the finished peice that picasso was trying to get
the flat angular look of a collaged picture, this look was somewhat used in Guernica as
picasso has tried to simulate the look of new print in once part of the picture to represent
how he had first heard about the bombing.
Movements, styles
Picasso went throught many different periods in his life, the most well known of his periods are the blue period which contains work making use of dark blues and containing thin sickly looking characters, it is generally the given thought that these images are a reflection of Picasso as a poor artist living in poverty at the begining of his carear. The Rose Period came next and heralds a change in direction with bright colours and warm colours being extensively used in his work, a feature often seen in Picasso's rose period work is the harlequin and other street entertainers. This period of Picassos's work reflects his sucsess in paris and also the start of a new relationship with an artist model.
His African inspired period came next and shows Picasso's interest in african culture and art, his work from this time looks like tribal paintings and sculpture, this eventually lead into his most recongnisable period, Cubism. The Cubist Period saw Picasso collaborate with other artists and push his style in ever more diverse and interesting ways. Cubism attempted to deconstruct how objects are viewed. The easiest way to understand cubism is to think about it as trying to look at an object from all directions and then demonstrate it in one image. What you are left with are slices of different view points reformed and next to each other, In the weeping woman it is clear to see this effect as we see two eyes as if viewed from the front and then the nose as viewed from the side. Picassos's use of cubism merges into the artistic style Surrealism and this was a style that Picasso was an influence on and influenced by Picasso. Guernica is a good example of Picasso's use of surrealism, It contains grey tonal symbolic imagery, the image of the minatour in Guernica is a feature that figures in several surrealist artists work. The hidden symbolism of Guernica is especially representative of the surrealist style, and was something Picasso clearly reveled in, especially as he refused to explain what the images mean't and stated quite clearly that it was his intention that people should come to their own conclusions about the meanings with it.
Materials and processes
Picasso worked in a variety of different mediums during his life and he produced a vast amount of artwork. By the time he died he was estimated to have produced 1,885 paintings; 1,228 sculptures; 2,880 ceramics, roughly 12,000 drawings, many thousands of prints, and numerous tapestries and rugs. Picasso was classically trained by his father who was a painter himself who taught at a variety of art schools in Spain this is refelected in the materials and techniques used by the young Picasso who's materials of choice are charcoals, pencil and oils. As Picasso grew older and began to take an interest in different art work and cultures his processes and materials changed to meet the needs of his ever developing and evolving interests and artistic styles. The examples of Picasso's work I have chosen are all oil on canvass paintings, they would have been first sketched out with charcoal or pencil then painted on with Picasso building up layers of paint and thinning his paint down with turpentine and other thinning agents to get the right effect. The three paintings I have chosen are are influenced by cubism and surrealism, The technique calls for blocks of colours with only limited use of gradients, thick black lines and bold shapes are used to form shapes, the Three Musicians makes use of texture and pattern which is a key feature of cubism. Many of Picasso's other cubist work makes use of cut up newspaper cuttings and fabric, this collage effect is simmulated well in the three musicians and defines it as a typical cubist picture. Guernica and the Weeping woman are very similiar in how they are constructed and I would imagine that the process of constructing them was similiar. Guernica differes from the weeping woman
Events, trends
The Spanish civil war has a large impact on two of the paintings I have selected, it directly inspired Guernica and that in turn and the concepts of loss and suffering resonate in the Weeping woman.
The three musicians represents the Cubist movement that Picasso and Georgee Braque where leading lights of. Its shattered and reformed collage style reflects the Cubist movement among artists of the earliest 20th century
Painting Title: Three Musicians 1921
Oil on canvas
Painting Title: The weeping woman 1937
Oil on canvas
Painting Title: Guernica 1937
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
How I can use this artists work
Im a big fan of much of Picasso's work, his surrealist influences are ones that appeal to me especially the symbolism represented in Guernica. The look of his characters have real potential for animation and im certain that the Chromaphobia by Raoul Servais is inspired directly from Picasso's work. The cut out look of the three musicians also has great potential for further work. I already animate using electronic cut out characters and the thought of using scanned in textures, newspapers and fabrics within my animation and illustration work is very appealing. I would like to develop a slightly cubist styled idea making use of collage style mixed media and my own drawings.
Henri Rousseau
Im a big fan of much of Picasso's work, his surrealist influences are ones that appeal to me especially the symbolism represented in Guernica. The look of his characters have real potential for animation and im certain that the Chromaphobia by Raoul Servais is inspired directly from Picasso's work. The cut out look of the three musicians also has great potential for further work. I already animate using electronic cut out characters and the thought of using scanned in textures, newspapers and fabrics within my animation and illustration work is very appealing. I would like to develop a slightly cubist styled idea making use of collage style mixed media and my own drawings.
Henri Rousseau
1844 - 1910
Born in France in the city
Rousseau is most famous for his collection of jungle/forest paintings.
Subjects, themes and issues
Henri Julien Félix Rousseau May 21, 1844 – September 2, 1910 was a French Post Impressionist painter in the Naive or Primitive manner. He was also known as the customer officer, a humorous description of his occupation as a tax collector. Ridiculed during his life, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality.
Henri Rousseau was born in Laval, Mayenne in the Loire Valley into the family of a tinsmith.[6] He attended Laval High School as a day student and then as a boarder, after his father became a debtor and his parents had to leave the town upon the seizure of their house. He was mediocre in some subjects at the high school but won prizes for drawing and music.[7] He worked for a lawyer and studied law, but "attempted a small perjury and sought refuge in the army," serving for four years, starting in 1863. With his father's death, Rousseau moved to Paris in 1868 to support his widowed mother as a government employee. In 1868 he married Clémence Boitard, his landlord's 15 year-old daughter, with whom he had six children (only one survived). In 1871, he was appointed as a collector of the octroi tax on goods entering Paris. His wife died in 1888 and he married Josephine Noury in 1898. He started painting seriously in his early forties, and by age 49 he retired from his job to work on his art full time.
His best known paintings depict jungle scenes, even though he never left France or saw a jungle. Stories spread by admirers that his army service included the French expeditionary force to Mexico are unfounded. His inspiration came from illustrated books and the botanical gardens in Paris, as well as tableaux of taxidermied wild animals. He had also met soldiers, during his term of service, who had survived the French expedition to Mexico and listened to their stories of the subtropical country they had encountered. To the critic Arsène Alexandre, he described his frequent visits to the Jardin des Plantes: "When I go into the glass houses and I see the strange plants of exotic lands, it seems to me that I enter into a dream." Along with his exotic scenes there was a concurrent output of smaller topographical images of the city and its suburbs. He claimed to have invented a new genre of portrait landscape, which he achieved by starting a painting with a view such as a favourite part of the city, and then depicting a person in the foreground.
From 1886 he exhibited regularly in the Salon des Indépendants, and, although his work was not placed prominently, it drew an increasing following over the years. Tiger in a Tropical Storm (Surprised!) was exhibited in 1891, and Rousseau received his first serious review, when the young artist Félix Vallotton wrote: "His tiger surprising its prey ought not to be missed; it's the alpha and omega of painting." Yet it was more than a decade before Rousseau returned to depicting his vision of jungles.In 1893, Rousseau moved to a studio in Montparnasse where he lived and worked until his death in 1910. During 1897 he produced one of his most famous paintings, La Bohémienne endormie The Sleeping Gypsy.
During 1905 a large jungle scene The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope was exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants near works by younger leading avant-garde artists such as Henri Matisse in what is now seen as the first showing of The Fauves. Rousseau's painting may even have influenced the naming of the Fauves. In 1907 he was commissioned by artist Robert Delaunay's mother, Berthe, Comtesse de Delaunay, to paint The Snake Charmer. When Pablo Picasso happened upon a painting by Rousseau being sold on the street as a canvas to be painted over, the younger artist instantly recognised Rousseau's genius and went to meet him. In 1908 Picasso held a half serious, half burlesque banquet in his studio in Le Bateau-Lavoir in Rousseau's honour. After Rousseau's retirement in 1893, he supplemented his small pension with part-time jobs and work such as playing a violin in the streets. He also worked briefly at Le petit journal, where he produced a number of its covers. The Dream 1910, MoMA Rousseau exhibited his final painting, The Dream, at the 1910 Salon des Independants a few months before his death on 2 September 1910 in the Hospital Necker in Paris. At his funeral, seven friends stood at his grave in the Cimetière de Bagneux: the painters Paul Signac and Manuel Ortiz de Zárate, the artist couple Robert Delaunay and Sonia Terk, the sculptor Brancusi, Rousseau's landlord Armand Queval and Guillaume Apollinaire who wrote the epitaph Brancusi put on the tombstone: We salute you Gentle Rousseau you can hear us.
Delaunay, his wife, Monsieur Queval and myself.
Henri Julien Félix Rousseau May 21, 1844 – September 2, 1910 was a French Post Impressionist painter in the Naive or Primitive manner. He was also known as the customer officer, a humorous description of his occupation as a tax collector. Ridiculed during his life, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality.
Henri Rousseau was born in Laval, Mayenne in the Loire Valley into the family of a tinsmith.[6] He attended Laval High School as a day student and then as a boarder, after his father became a debtor and his parents had to leave the town upon the seizure of their house. He was mediocre in some subjects at the high school but won prizes for drawing and music.[7] He worked for a lawyer and studied law, but "attempted a small perjury and sought refuge in the army," serving for four years, starting in 1863. With his father's death, Rousseau moved to Paris in 1868 to support his widowed mother as a government employee. In 1868 he married Clémence Boitard, his landlord's 15 year-old daughter, with whom he had six children (only one survived). In 1871, he was appointed as a collector of the octroi tax on goods entering Paris. His wife died in 1888 and he married Josephine Noury in 1898. He started painting seriously in his early forties, and by age 49 he retired from his job to work on his art full time.
His best known paintings depict jungle scenes, even though he never left France or saw a jungle. Stories spread by admirers that his army service included the French expeditionary force to Mexico are unfounded. His inspiration came from illustrated books and the botanical gardens in Paris, as well as tableaux of taxidermied wild animals. He had also met soldiers, during his term of service, who had survived the French expedition to Mexico and listened to their stories of the subtropical country they had encountered. To the critic Arsène Alexandre, he described his frequent visits to the Jardin des Plantes: "When I go into the glass houses and I see the strange plants of exotic lands, it seems to me that I enter into a dream." Along with his exotic scenes there was a concurrent output of smaller topographical images of the city and its suburbs. He claimed to have invented a new genre of portrait landscape, which he achieved by starting a painting with a view such as a favourite part of the city, and then depicting a person in the foreground.
From 1886 he exhibited regularly in the Salon des Indépendants, and, although his work was not placed prominently, it drew an increasing following over the years. Tiger in a Tropical Storm (Surprised!) was exhibited in 1891, and Rousseau received his first serious review, when the young artist Félix Vallotton wrote: "His tiger surprising its prey ought not to be missed; it's the alpha and omega of painting." Yet it was more than a decade before Rousseau returned to depicting his vision of jungles.In 1893, Rousseau moved to a studio in Montparnasse where he lived and worked until his death in 1910. During 1897 he produced one of his most famous paintings, La Bohémienne endormie The Sleeping Gypsy.
During 1905 a large jungle scene The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope was exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants near works by younger leading avant-garde artists such as Henri Matisse in what is now seen as the first showing of The Fauves. Rousseau's painting may even have influenced the naming of the Fauves. In 1907 he was commissioned by artist Robert Delaunay's mother, Berthe, Comtesse de Delaunay, to paint The Snake Charmer. When Pablo Picasso happened upon a painting by Rousseau being sold on the street as a canvas to be painted over, the younger artist instantly recognised Rousseau's genius and went to meet him. In 1908 Picasso held a half serious, half burlesque banquet in his studio in Le Bateau-Lavoir in Rousseau's honour. After Rousseau's retirement in 1893, he supplemented his small pension with part-time jobs and work such as playing a violin in the streets. He also worked briefly at Le petit journal, where he produced a number of its covers. The Dream 1910, MoMA Rousseau exhibited his final painting, The Dream, at the 1910 Salon des Independants a few months before his death on 2 September 1910 in the Hospital Necker in Paris. At his funeral, seven friends stood at his grave in the Cimetière de Bagneux: the painters Paul Signac and Manuel Ortiz de Zárate, the artist couple Robert Delaunay and Sonia Terk, the sculptor Brancusi, Rousseau's landlord Armand Queval and Guillaume Apollinaire who wrote the epitaph Brancusi put on the tombstone: We salute you Gentle Rousseau you can hear us.
Delaunay, his wife, Monsieur Queval and myself.
Let our luggage pass duty free through the gates of heaven.
We will bring you brushes paints and canvas.
That you may spend your sacred leisure in the
light and Truth of Painting.
As you once did my portrait facing the stars, lion and the gypsy
We will bring you brushes paints and canvas.
That you may spend your sacred leisure in the
light and Truth of Painting.
As you once did my portrait facing the stars, lion and the gypsy
Movements and styles
Henri Rousseau saw shape and colour to be very important in his work. other than his jungle paintings he did portrates. many of which have a strange style and desieving look about them. for example Child With Doll, this painting is of a child with a womans face this is strange on its own but the awkward stance of the child makes it hard to see if she is sitting or standing. Also the way Rousseau uses pattens and spots make the textures and dimentions of his paintings look flat or at strange angles. He gets alot of his insperation from nature and his passion of the way nature moves itself.
Materials and processes
Henri Rousseau throughout his life had produced thousands of paintings and drawings. Henri Rousseau mainly used oils to paint his finished work. the way he drew jungle landscaspes oil paints let him acheive the style he wanted.
The Dream 1910
Boy on the rocks - 1895 - 1897
Fight between a tiger and a buffalo - 1908
How i could use his work
Im a big fan of picassos work, mainly his jungle and animal paintings. The awkward ways in which he will possision people, animals and landscape influenses the way i draw things to make it mroe interesting. this would help me develope my skills and versitility in art work of my own.
Henry Moore
Henry Moore
1898 - 1986
Moore was a English artist who specialised in dawing and sculpting
Subjects, themes and issues
Henri Moore is famous for his abstract bronze sluptures that are localised all around the world. from looking at his various sculpings such as oval with points it is obvious the Moore likes smooth, organic shapes of a human nature. Typically depicting mother-and-child or reclining figures. Moore's works are sumtimes surgestive of the female body or human bodies. Many interpreters liken the undulating form of his reclining figures to the landscape and hills of his birthplace. In the a reclining sculpture he scluted in 1951 the smoothe lines and curves of this peice of art work he created is on of his most famous due to its sergestive female form displayed.
Movements and style
Henri Moore has only one main and identifiable style and has been with him throughout his career as a sculpture. the style of smooth and natural curves and shapes is very typical of Henri Moore to include in his work. it is displayed in almost all oh his work apart from his paintings. Although the paintings he produced still had the codes and conventions of Henri Moore's style with smooth lines and curves you can tell some of which have a complete different style to his sculpting'. for example "Tube shelter" you can see the smooth curves almost framing the people laying down on the floor but he has more of a painters style other than his usual female form sculptures.
Oval with points - This is by far my favourite piece of art Henri Moore has produced over his time. It doesn't represent or carry any female or body like shape to it from first glance like some of his other work, This sculpture is inspired by an elephant skull. Moore was struck by the caverns of space, the strength of the bone in contrast to its fine edges and the tension created by the pointed forms.
Large Reclining Figure - This piece of art from Henri Moore's famous collection is one of the most interesting in my opinion. with its suggestive but also obvious female form is captures very well in the sculpting. ETC
Double Oval -
has enormous impact, viewed both at close quarters and from a distance. Looking at it we sense that the visible form is the tip of the iceberg. The two pieces have a steel frame below ground, supporting the mass of bronze. There is a specific footprint for positioning this work, and when moved it has to be carefully dug out of the ground and lifted with a heavy-duty crane. Each new site must be prepared carefully, and footings are made to ensure that the work sits on a solid foundation.Double Oval demonstrates one of the central themes of Moore's work: the simplicity of organic mass. At first sight the two pieces appear the same, but on closer inspection they differ in shape. As we move around the work, the importance of the holes becomes apparent; looking through them we see not only the landscape but a portion of the other form. The surface is smooth in some parts and textured in others, which gives a sensation of depth and shade. As with many of the sculptures on display at Kew, the space between the two forms is critical to the monumentality of the piece. http://www.kew.org/henry-moore/explore/sculpture01.shtml
Materials and process
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