Critical Studies: Patrick Caulfield

Born in London on the 29th of January 1936, Patrick Caulfield was an English painter and printmaker.

Caulfield began his studies in 1956 at Chelsea School of Art, London, continuing at the Royal College of Art (1960-63),

He became associated with Pop art mainly because of his participation in the New Generation exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, in 1964.

Caulfield's paintings are figurative, often showing a few simple objects in an interior. Typically, he used flat areas of simple colour surrounded by black outlines.

In 1987 Caulfield was nominated for the Turner Prize and in 1996 he was made a CBE.

He died in London in 2005 and is buried in Highgate Cemetery.

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.