Critical Studies: Collage Illustration artists, designers and craftsperson's

Lauren Child

Lauren Child says she has always loved to draw.

Her Father was an Art teacher and she says he was a great inspiration on her life as he made drawing fun.

Lauren Child really likes the fun scribble like illustrations of Quentin Blake.

Lauren Child uses computers a lot in her work. She scans in images and then creates the background.

Child draws all her characters out in pencil. She then scans them into computer. Cleans them up and then prints them out to work over the top of them in paints and collage.

Critical Studies: Collage Illustration artists, designers and craftsperson's

Sara Fanelli

Sara Fanelli is one of the most admired artists working in children’s book illustration today.

Originally from Florence, Italy. Sara studied at Camberwell School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London.

She developed an interest in collage because she felt painting looked flat and dull.

When Fanelli makes a collage illustration she starts with a drawing of the composition (layout). Once this is completed she adds bits of interesting old sweet wrappers and papers.

Identity Vocabulary

Learn the definition of the words below to help you to describe artwork and artefacts in both your critical studies and class work.

Assemblage Usually 3-D work built from found or recycled materials.
   
Identity The individual characteristics by which a person or thing is recognised.

Characteristics A distinguishing quality, attribute, or trait.     

Design Preliminary sketch or idea for a larger work.


Emotional Describing the artist’s personal response to an event.
      
Humorous Works which express some exaggerated action or unlikely expression, often seen in caricatures.

Typography The art of setting and arranging letters and words.
     
Construct To build or form by putting parts together in a careful way.

Image A picture, carving or likeness of something.   

Background The part of a picture furthest away from you.

Critical Studies: Identity artists, designers and craftsperson's

Peter Davies

Contemporary artist Peter Davies believes that a person’s taste can represent his or her identity.

As part of his Art, Peter Davies uses lists and charts to create large scale canvases filled with bright colours and imperfect patterns.

He then fills these charts and patterns with the names of his friends, colleagues, and art heroes and their artworks.

Usually these are all listed from Numbers One through to One Hundred with the friend or artist at Number One being the person who at that point in Davies’ mind is seen to be the most important.

What will I be learning in Art & Design?

This unit will provide you with the opportunity to explore, investigate and learn about your own identity. You will investigate how you can represent yourself through a visual outcome and how other objects/imagery used in picture, such as personal items and found objects, can also give information us about who you are and how you feel. You will learn that artworks can express something about the person that cannot be recorded by camera. Throughout the unit you will gain skills in observing, recording and manipulating materials through the creation of a series of observational drawings of emotionally inspired portraits. You will build on your knowledge of appropriate artists, designers and craftsperson’s through critical studies research on a chosen artist, designer or craftsperson that uses Identity as inspiration when creating their own artwork. You will also be expected to continue to develop evaluation skills by peer and self assessing your own and other class members progress throughout this unit making constructive comments on each others work using specific art and design vocabulary.

From this unit you will develop the following skills in Art and Design.

Explore You will be use a variety of artistic approaches in order to develop your ideas for your final piece taking some creative risks when exploring, experimenting and responding to ideas in order to develop your work. You may also be able to select information and resources from your observational and critical studies in order to develop your final identity artefact.

Investigate You will be able to investigate and develop a range of practical skills using the qualities of materials decisively to suit your design intentions. You may also be able to manipulate the qualities of materials and formal elements in order to produce your individual final identity artefact.

Analyse You will be able to compare and comment on different ideas, methods and approaches used by artists, craftspersons and designers, making specific comments about the environment in which the artwork was made. I may also be able to relate these comments to the artworks context and purpose.

Evaluate You will be able to discuss and evaluate your own work and that of others and consider how you may adapt and refine your ideas, skills and processes. Giving my own opinion on the artworks purpose and meaning and refining my ideas and processes so that I can fulfil my design intentions.

Unit Evaluation

Please complete and glue in your sketchbook.

Portrait Vocabulary

Learn the definition of the words below to help you to describe artwork and artefacts in both your critical studies and class work.

Expressive Where the subject, colour and/or material application create an emotional impact.

Model The person posing for the artist.

Natural Colour that looks like the actual object, place, surface.

Scale Real distance, shown as smaller, to fit on a piece of paper.

Portrait A painting, drawing or photograph of a person, often just the face.

Shape The outline of an object and the way in which we recognise it.

Proportion The relationship of one thing to another in terms of size.

Shading Techniques using lines or marks to make an object look 3-D or shadowy or partly lit.

Critical Studies: Portrait artists, designers and craftsperson's

 Stanley Spencer

Spencer was born and lived in the village of Cookham in Berkshire.

After studies at the Slade School of Art, he returned to his birthplace, which he already regarded as ‘a kind of earthly paradise’.

During the First World War he served with the Medical Corps in Macedonia and as an Official War Artist.

After the war he began to depict religious subjects in the everyday setting of Cookham. In the 1920s, inspired by the frescos of Giotto, and drawing on his wartime experiences, he painted cycles of religious murals in memorial chapels at Burghclere and Sandham.

In the Second World War he was again an Official War Artist, and painted a series of large pictures depicting ship building on the Clyde.

By the 1950s, Stanley Spencer had gained recognition for his contribution to the British figurative and portrait tradition.

Critical Studies: Portrait artists, designers and craftsperson's

Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud is the grandson of Sigmund Freud.

He studied at the Central School of Art in London then, with greater success, at Cedric Morris’ East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in Dedham.

He is best known for his paintings and etchings of people.

Freud’s subjects are often the people in his life; friends, family, fellow painters, lovers, children.

Freud works and reworks his paintings over time, using thick oil paint And the skills and methods of old masters to create contemporary works of art.

Critical Studies: Portrait artists, designers and craftsperson's

Jenny Saville

Jenny Saville was born in 1970 in Cambridge, England.

In 1988, aged 18, she went to study Glasgow School of Art.

Saville is best known for her paintings and images of women or herself.

She is very interested in the flesh of the human form and has observed many plastic surgery operations to help her in creating her artworks.

Jenny Saville also uses older paintings and artists as inspirations for her work, especially artists known for pushing the human figure to its limits of stress and decomposition.
   
Saville says that paint, particularly oil paint, is her language and the way she communicates is through the artwork she creates.

Proportions of the Face

What will I be learning in Art & Design?

This unit will give you the opportunity to explore, investigate and learn about portraiture. You will be looking at the proportions of the face in detail, recording the faces unique structure and features using observational drawing techniques and a range of art materials including pencil and watercolour. You will be asked to research artists, designers and craftsperson’s, who use the human body as inspiration when creating their own artwork. You will then use these visual investigations to help you to transform your own artwork into an individual self-portrait which draws on your investigations into observational drawing and your critical studies. You will also be expected to evaluate your own and other class members progress through this unit making constructive comments on each others work using specific art and design vocabulary.
 
From this unit you will develop the following skills in Art and Design.

Explore     You will be use a variety of artistic approaches in order to develop your ideas for your final piece. You may also be able to select information and resources from your observational and critical studies in order to develop your final self-portrait.

Investigate    You will be able to investigate and develop a range of practical skills using the qualities of materials decisively to suit your design intentions. You may also be able to manipulate the qualities of materials and formal elements in order to produce your individual final self-portrait.

Analyse    You will be able to compare and comment on different ideas, methods and approaches used by artists, craftsperson’s and designers, making specific comments about the environment in which the artwork was made.

Evaluate    You will be able to discuss your own work and that of others and consider how you may adapt and refine your ideas, skills and processes. Giving my own opinion on the artworks purpose and meaning.

What level are you working at in Art & Design?