AS ART, CRAFT & DESIGN

UNIT 2:
EXTERNALLY SET ASSIGNMENT

2016

Preparation time: 11 weeks of lessons

11th February to 4th May 2016
Exam= 10 hrs
split into 2 x 5hrs (2 Full school days)

AQA GCE AS Art, Craft & Design:ESA

ESA= 40% of your final mark for your GCE AS

AO1 (Develop) 20 marks

Find relevant artists to look at

Produce research pages showing your understanding
Use this work to inspire your own work
Make personal comments and about their work

AO2 (Refine) 20 marks

Explore different media and materials

Use different techniques and processes
Evaluate how successful your experiments have been

AO3 (Record) 20 marks

Collect and present relevant imagery

Produce high quality photographs
Annotate your work thoroughly

AO4 (Present) 20 marks

Produce confident and high quality final piece/s

Ensure your work links to your prep work and artists you
have researched

Starting Points
Insects
Beneath our feet
The eyes
Curves
Rocks, pebbles and
stones

Question 1: Insects
Insects have inspired many artists,
designers and filmmakers. Rene Lalique
designed exquisite jewellery which features
dragonflies and butterflies. MC Esher used
a variety of insect imagery in his work.
Installations by Rafael Gomezbarros used
giant sculptures of ants to symbolise the
plight of refugees. Insects also feature in
computer animated films such as 'Antz'
and A Bugs Life'.
With reference to appropriate examples,
produce a personal response.

Q1 Insects
Rene Lalique
1860-1945
Ren Jules Lalique
was a French glass
designer known
for his creations of
glass art, perfume
bottles, vases,
jewellery,
chandeliers,
clocks and
automobile hood
ornaments

MC Escher
1898-1972
A dutch
graphic artist
who made
mathematicall
y inspired
woodcuts,
lithographs and
mezzotints

Rafael Gomezbarros

Question 2: Beneath our feet

Beneath our feet the ground beneath our
feet to come provide interesting subject
matter for artists and designers. The Boyle
Family produced highly detailed painted
casts to recreate randomly chosen areas
of the earth surface. You might also like to
consider examples include exquisite
Roman floor mosaics, intricately patterned
Persian carpets or Carl Andre's
methodically arranged tiles.
Investigate relevant work by others and
develop a personal response.

Q2Beneath our feet

Roman Mosaics

The Boyle Family

Mark Boyle 1934 - 2005 was a
Scottish artist who began
exhibiting with Joan Hills and their
children Sebastian and Georgia
as the Boyle Family in 1985

Persian Carpets

Carl Andre
1935 American minimalist
artists known for ordered
linear format and grid format
sculptures

Question 3: The eyes

The eyes are striking features of the face
which have been portrayed in different
ways by artists, designers and
photographers. Leonardo da Vinci's 'Mona
Lisa' is renowned for the intriguing and
haunting eyes of the sitter. Tony Tasset
produced a public installation based on his
own eye ball. Siren Manveylan takes
macro photographs that reveal the detail
in animals eyes.
Consider it appropriate work but others and
develop your own response to this theme.

Q3 The eyes
Leonardo Da Vinci

Tony Tasset
American multimedia artist. Mainly works in video, bronze, wax,
sculpture, photography, film and taxidermy

Suren
Manvelyan
Armenian
photographer
who specializes
in animal eye,
human eye,
macro,
landscape,
portrait and
night spirit
photos

Question 4: Curves
The potential of curves has been explored
by many designers, artists and architects.
Jules Cheret created energy and
dynamism in his posters by exploiting
curves. Jean Arp produced sculptures and
paintings in which curves are important
elements. Ron Arad designed architecture
and furniture using utilising curved shapes.
Respond in your own way to this theme,
making reference to relevant work of
others.

Q4 Curves
Jean Arp
1886-1966
GermanFrench
sculptor,
painter, poet,
and abstract
artist in other
media such as
torn and
pasted paper.

Jules Cheret 1836-1932

French painter and lithographer who became a
master of Belle poque poster art. He has been
called the father of the modern poster.

Ron Arad
Born 1951. An Israeli
industrial designer,
artist, and architect.

Question 5: Rocks, pebbles

and stones
Many artists and designers have been
inspired by rocks, pebbles and stones.
Rene Magritte painted many surreal
images featuring stone. The sculptor
Barbara Hepworth responded to the form
and surface of qualities of stones and
pebbles. Coloured pebbles are used in
Maggie Howarth's mosaics. Chris Booth
create site-specific installations from
stones.
Refer to relevant work by others and
produce your own response

Q5 Rocks, Pebbles & Stones

Chris Booth
Born 1948
Environmental
artist

Maggie
Howarth
known for
her original
designs
which
encompass
intricate
geometry,
abstract
patterns and
natural
imagery, all
meticulously
woven into
decorative
floor-scapes

Rene Magritte
1898-1967 Belgian
surrealist artist. He
became well known
for a number of witty
and thoughtprovoking images that
fall under the umbrella
of surrealism.

Barbara Hepworth 1903-1975

English artist and sculptor. Her work exemplifies
Modernism and in particular modern sculpture.