These images will help you to start finding starting points for artists research for the GCSE EDEXCEL exam

1. GCSE PHOTOGRAPHY
2013
FORCES

2. INSPIRATION
use the images on the
following slides as starting
points if you get stuck or
need guidance

3. Renoir: nature
Les
parapluie
1880s

4. Andy Goldsworthy:
sculptures in nature
the photos are the evidence

5. Claes Oldenburg: changing the scale of objects
– what does it force the observer to do ?

6. Frances Bacon: emotions

7. http://soundcolourvibration.com/2011/05/28/color-in- Photo by John Deakin
motion-vol-114-francis-bacon/
David Lynch (director) comments on how Bacon inspires
him
“Yet one glance at Francis Bacon’s paintings and I am
immediately sent to a place I feel comfortable in. These
are works of hidden identity & the enigma of man and
his touch”
How could his paintings inspire you – do the photos of
him inspire you?

8. Shepard Fairey: personality and
politics
The Tyrant Boot print was inspired by the Frederick Douglas
quote “The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of
those whom they oppress”. Frederick Douglas, an African
American, was a leader of the Abolitionist Movement. He was
a firm believer in the equality of all people, whether black,
woman, Native American, or recent immigrant. He was fond of
saying, “I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody
to do wrong.”
http://www.obeygiant.com/headlines/revok-tyrants
Shephard

10. Sam taylor-wood: mixed media
http://artpulsemagazine.com/breaking-the-medium-of-
painting-down
http://www.bbc.co.uk/collective/gallery/2/index.sh
tml?collection=samtaylorwood&mode=dynamic

12. Fay Godwin:
the power of nature
http://www.archivemagazine.
org.uk/?p=21

13. Bill Viola: lighting, culture and belief
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embe
dded&v=6-V7in9LObI
Viola explores themes such as religion and war
through video and photography – watch the video (at
home) or look for his installations:

14. http://www.ressupport.org/index.php?id=101
the Exhibition ‘Bill Viola: The Passions@ at the
the J. Paul Getty Museum 2000