Identity and the

Human Form
 Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter known for her many self-portraits, she painted
about gender, class, and race, her paintings often symbolised her own feelings.
Florian Nicole
Kehinde Wiley
Lucian Freud
Naum Gabo
David Theron
Henri Matisse
The Fauves, meaning “Wild Beasts” in
French, were a short lived and loose
grouping of early century modern artists
whose work emphasized painterly
qualities and strong colors.
Francoise
Nielly
 Picasso – Guernica 1937
Pablo Picasso 25th October 1881 – 8th April 1973 was a Spanish Painter,

draughtsman, and sculptor .

Henry Moore
Kathe Kollwitz

Self portrait

Widows and Orphans

‘Death’
BANKSY
 The Theraputist

The lovers

Rene Magritte
M C Escher
Ron Mueck
Leonardo De Vinci
Edward Hopper

Night Hawks
 Figurative Sculpture
Antony Gormley
Asian Field
Chuck Close, Phillip
Glass
‘If you impose a limit not to
do something you’ve done
before, it will push you
where you haven't gone
before.’
Design Your Project Brief
What is your approach as an artist, or what would you like your art to achieve?
To inspire, inform, question, document, tell a story..

What are you most interested in or inspired by within our ‘human form’ project.
Events, Non events. Family, places, close up observation, emotions, movement, identity,
journeys, big issues (e.g. Global warming)Big events...

Would you like your work to focus on one figure or a group?

Figures can be used to suggest..
Issues - such as Global Warming like Gormley’s clay figures, or religion or faith like Attia’s
woman praying, relationship bonds - family bonds shown with physical closeness, Power
struggles - Emotion - like Francis Bacon’s work, Time and the aging process - like in
Andrew Wyeth’s ‘marriage’
What artist is your main inspiration for this part of your project? Why have you
chosen them?
Can you suggest any ways in which you’d like to develop on their work?