1. This is your GCSE Art Exam question.
ordinary
and / or
EXTRAORDINARY...

2. It is important that you begin working on the
EXAM paper straight away.
START TODAY!
Exam dates….
Tuesday 8th and Wednesday 9th May

3. There are 6 main starting points.
PEOPLE, PLACES, IMAGINATION,
OBJECTS, ACTIVITIES and
NATURAL WORLD.

4. PEOPLE

5. 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.

6. Chris Ofili
No Woman No Cry 1998. Uses mixed media,
including elephant dung!

7. 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...

8. 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

9. Alfred Stieglitz
Artist Georgia O’ Keeffe’s
hands with thimble. An
alternative way to make a
portrait of somebody.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. Jason Freeny – Contemporary sculpture

13. 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.

14. Ana Maria
Pacheco
Wall mounted
wooden
sculptures and
dark, dry-point
etching prints.
2011

15. 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

16. Julian Opi

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. '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

20. Simon Patterson
“The Great Bear” 1992 –links people of popular culture together.

21. OBJECTS

22. 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.

23. Lisa Milroy- collections of ordinary objects

24. ‘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.

25. Andy Warhol- Ordinary Objects

26. 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.

27. 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

28. 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.

29. Su Blackwell – paper cut art

30. PLACES

31. 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.

32. LS Lowry - Market Scene, Northern
Town, 1939
Manus Walsh
Alfred Wallis

33. 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)

34. 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.

35. 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.

36. FaithRinggoldAfric
an American
Tar Beach 2 1990
Silkscreen on silk
66 x 66"

37. 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.

38. ACTIVITIES

39. John Salt – photorealist painting
Laura Knight - painting
Duane Hanson – Tourists. 1988 Gregory Crewdson- photographer

40. Robert Delaunay – The Runners
Nestor Kirchner - paintings

41. Edgar Degas
"Three Studies of A Dancer," by Edgar Degas,
The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer
- (Bronze) cast in 1922

42. “I’ve spent the last 25 years of my
Lois Greenfield photographic career investigating
movement and its expressive
http://www.loisgreenfield.com/gal potential. My inspiration has always
leries/index.html been photography’s ability to stop
time and reveal what the naked eye
cannot see. My interest in
photography is not to capture an
image I see or even have in my
mind, but to explore the potential of
moments

43. NATURAL WORLD

44. Jean Arp- Feuille se Reposant
(RestingLeaf) 1959
Angie Lewin - Printmaking

45. Sam Taylor-Wood

46. Elizabeth Blackadder – botanical drawing and
painting.
Carol Sims – acrylic on canvas

47. Sophie Ryder

48. Karl Blossfeldt
Monochrome photography of natural forms such as flowers, seed
pods.

49. Edward Weston
Weston explored natural form through black and white photography.
Shell, 1927 Vintage gelatin silver print

50. 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
pebbles scratched
white with another
stone St. Abbs,
Scotland 1 June 1985

51. 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

52. 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.

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

54. 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

55. David Hockney
Hockney’s recent work
has been created on his
ipad and his iphone this
one is considering the
Natural World
Below is the Royal Academy
website
http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/h
ockney/
Exhibition at the Royal Academy London -21 January - 9 April 2012

56. 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
media.
Psalm 27: Hirst's butterfly and enamel paint on
canvas

57. IMAGINATION

58. Tacita Dean
Tacita Dean trained as a painter and
now works in a variety of media,
including drawing, photography
and sound but is best known for
her compelling 16mm films.
Dean's work finds connections
between past and present, fact
and fiction.

59. Manus Walsh
Manus Walsh’s work
has been described
as cubist, abstract,
impressionist,
surreal, naturalistic
and romantic.

60. Arthur Rackham Arthur Rackham was an illustrator in the late 19th and early
20th century.
Rackham’s work depicts mythology, folklore and fable

61. Paula Rego
A number of her prints relate
specifically to children's
literature, to fairy tales,
nursery rhymes and longer
fictional works which have a
wide popular appeal.
Below.. a good link about the Artist and
LITTLE MISS MUFFET 1989
her work
http://collection.britishcouncil.org/collection/a
rtist/5/18742/object/40023/

62. Brian Froud- Magical Creatures

63. Salvador Dali – The Persistence Of Memory. 1931.

64. Swans Reflecting Elephants 1937

65. Rene Magritte and the Surrealist art
movement.

66. Carel Weight – Paintings that
seem to communicate ordinary
and extraordinary at the same
time...

67. Anthony
Green –
watercolour
painting

68. William Blake – poet
and painter. A lot of
his work was about
religion and
mythology.

69. M C Escher – graphic artist who
made repeating patterns into artwork and
impossible structures.
Alberto Schommer–
photography. 1990.