Movement

MOVEMENT

Aims and Objectives

This term’s work will focus on the theme of

MOVEMENT

We will try out different ways of exploring the theme through activities and discussion.

We will think and look in different ways and experiment with new methods and outcomes.

You will make your own piece of work on this theme, so think about ideas and methods that

particularly interest them this term as a means of developing your own work.

Lessons this term will be grouped around different

ideas in art on the theme of

MOVEMENT

Each section examines an artist or group of artists

and students are asked to consider questions

about these aspects of art.

An understanding of these will help the

development of individual work in class.

We are also going to think about the way we look

at art…….!

ASSESSMENT OBJECTIVES

• AO1 Develop their ideas through investigations informed by contextual and other sources demonstrating analytical and cultural understanding

(Look at the work of other artists and think about how they work, show that you have really thought about this and use this to give you ideas about ways to develop your own work)

• AO2 Refine their ideas through experimenting and selecting appropriate resources, media, materials, techniques and processes (When you collect images, show that you can select the best and experiment with different ways to develop your ideas to find the one that works best! We should be able to see evidence of this in your sketchbook)

• AO3 Record ideas, observations and insights relevant to their intentions in visual and/or other forms (Think carefully about the images you collect for projects, if you start off with lots of good material then you give your self a chance to do your very best!)

• AO4 Present a personal, informed and meaningful response demonstrating analytical and critical understanding, realising intentions and where appropriate, making connections between visual, written, oral or other elements. (This brings everything together – if you have worked hard on Assessment Objectives 1-3 then you will be able to develop some exciting final work, you will also be asked to evaluate your work when you have finished)

Quality of Written Communication (QWC)

In GCSE specifications which require candidates to produce written material in English, candidates must:

• ensure that text is legible and that spelling, punctuation and grammar are accurate so that meaning is clear

• select and use a form and style of writing appropriate to purpose and to complex subject matter

• organise information clearly and coherently, using specialist vocabulary when appropriate.

Who is the artist?

What is the title?

When was this made?

What is the main focus in this piece?

What is the artist aiming at?

Is there an underlying theme or meaning?

What are the significant factors in the painting?

Compare these two pictures….

List the similarities between the two pictures

List the differences between the two pictures

What sort of situation might have prompted the making of the

painting on the right?

How might the artist have

been feeling?

Lola the Artist’s sister 1902 Weeping woman 1937

Evaluation

Decide which you think more powerfully expresses the artist’s mood?

Section 1

CUBISMThere are a number of artists such as Picasso (below)

Braque and Leger who are famous for developing this style

of painting it CUBISM had it’s beginnings in art work done

before the 20th century……

Cezanne developed his painting in a very original way. He was often

linked to the ‘Impressionist’ painters, although his work is quite

different.

He uses colour to describe form, however his style almost seems to

break the form apart…..

Left Cezanne ‘Corner of a Quarry’ 1902

Right Cezanne ‘Portrait of Monsieur Choquet’ (detail)

Cezanne’s painting influenced the work of Picasso and other artists such as

Braque. They took the idea much further, they intentionally broke up the form

and created images from several viewpoints at the same time.

This developed in France and is known as ‘Cubism’. Two early examples are

shown below.

Left Picasso Ambrose Vollard 1910 Right Braque – ‘Man with a Guitar’ 1911

Picasso – Still Life

Cubism was an art movement with an

intellectual purpose, but it was also for a

way for Picasso to express some complex

and difficult personal feelings.

This is particularly evident in his famous

painting about the Spanish Civil War about

the bombing of Guernica….

Picasso – ‘Guernica’ 1937

above: Robert Capa ‘Falling Soldier’1936

below: Picasso ‘Guernica’

1937

These two pictures both depict

dramatic moments in the Spanish

Civil War..

What is similar about these two pictures?

What is different?

What sort of situation prompted the

making of these two images?

Which is more powerful? Why?

Are there any aspects of either of these

images that you might use in your own

work?........

Homework

• A drawing from direct observation in a

‘CUBIST’ style. Think about overlapping

images and drawing from different angles.

• Find some examples of CUBISM and stick

in your book (record the artist’s name and

title).

• EXPLAIN HOW THIS FITS OUR THEME

OF ‘MOVEMENT’

Section 2

FUTURISM

In 1909 an Italian named Marinetti launched a FUTURIST ‘manifesto’ on the front page of one of the big Paris newspapers ‘Le Figaro’ in which he set out his ideas about a new philosophy for the twentieth century!...

He thought that the many technological changes he could see around him would change society and the way that people thought about the arts.

Futurist painting fits easily into our theme of ‘Movement’as much of the work that the Futurist painters did was trying to describe movement. They lived and worked in mainly in Italy.

They were possibly influenced a little by Cubism, but probably other developments in European painting too which put more emphasis on colour and markmaking…

Picasso Ambrose Vollard 1910 (left, detail)

‘Balla – ‘Dynamism of a Man’s Head’ 1914 (right)

Balla – ‘Street Light’ 1909 and ‘Dynamism of Dog on a Leash’ 1912 and

Umberto Boccioni– ‘The City Rises’ 1910

Carra ‘The Red Horseman’ 1915

What is the main focus in both of these pictures?

What would you like to ask the artist?

Compare these two pictures –

What are the similarities?

What are the differences?

Can you find a way of describing movement…..

Boccioni – ‘The States of Mind – The Farewells’ 1910

Boccioni ‘The Dynamism of a Cyclist’ 1913

Boccioni ‘The Dynamism of a Soccer Player’ 1913

Balla – ‘A car has passed’ 1910

Balla – ‘The speed of a motor car’ 1913

Luigi Russolo ‘The Dynamism of an Automobile’ 1914

Homework


‘FUTURIST’ style. Think about overlapping


• Find some examples of FUTURISM and

stick in your book (record the artist’s name

and title).


OF ‘MOVEMENT’

Section 3

VORTICISM

In the UK 1912 Lewis became the founder of Vorticism, a literary and artistic movement.

Members of the group include painters Christopher Nevinson and William Roberts, and Henri Gaudier Brzeska sculptor.

In his journal, Blast (1914-15), Lewis attacked the sentimentality of 19th century art and emphasized the value of violence, energy and the machine. In the visual arts Vorticism was expressed in abstract compositions of bold lines, sharp angles and planes

Wyndham Lewis

Wyndham Lewis wanted to show the war

in terms of energy –

‘A Battery Shelled’ 1919 - the men lose

their human form in action; chimneys wave

and bend, and the very shells zigzag in

lumps and masses across the sky.

From 1916 to 1918 Lewis served on the

Western Front as a battery officer.

Wyndham Lewis – ‘A Battery Shelled’ 1919

Nevinson – ‘French Troops Resting’

Nevinson ‘Machine Gun’1915

At the outbreak of the First World War, Nevinson, as a pacifist, refused to become involved in combat duties, and volunteered instead to work for the Red Cross

Sent to France in 1914, Nevinson joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and helped look after injured soldiers

Nevinson painted a series of paintings based on his experiences in France.

• What is the main focus in both of these pictures?

What would you like to ask the artist?

Compare these two pictures – What are the similarities? What are the differences? How might you depict war?

• Left Nevinson ‘Machine Gun’ Right First World War Recruitment Poster

Nevinson

‘Returning Soldiers’ 1914

He uses the ideas of

‘Vorticism’ to make the

soldiers look mechanical

as if they had no

individual personality, but

had become part of

machine.

He introduces the idea

that perhaps it is the

machine that operates

the man rather than the

man that operates the

machine.

Homework


‘CUBIST’ style. Think about overlapping


• Find some examples of CUBISM and stick

in your book (record the artist’s name and

title).


OF ‘MOVEMENT’

SECTION 4

OTHER ARTISTS THAT MIGHT RELATE

TO THE THEME OF MOVEMENT

DEGAS

Edgar DegasEdgar Degas lived and worked in Paris at the end of the nineteenth century. He is often thought of as part of the Impressionist movement because the way he applies colour is sometimes similar to the ways his contemporaries in the Impressionist movement applied colour, however his subject matter and methods were often quite different.

He was one of the first artists to use photography, though this was only to do research for a few pictures (it was a costly and difficult medium to use in those days).

He also used to do quick drawings using tracing paper…..! He would work directly from life and do fast linear drawings, then he would overlay one drawing over another to add or move the figures in his final composition. The picture that you see on the other side of this sheet was probably made in this way and would have been part of a series. He would then experiment with colours using pastels to see which worked best.

He explored different compositions by using the MOVEMENT of the figures, there is also MOVEMENT in the way that he applies colour using lively marks and mixing the colours.

Degas Drawings (probably done in 1880s)

Degas was a keen photographer, however photography was still in the early

stages of development and the subject had to stand very still as in this picture

that he took of Julie Manet in 1895. He therefore had to make lively use of

colours and marks to depict MOVEMENT

Degas often

worked on tracing

paper so that he

could use images

more than once

and combine

different figures.

This also allowed

him to experiment

easily with lots of

different

compositions….

Perhaps some of the work we have looked at

already will give you some ideas for your

own work

Some other ideas to get you thinking about

the theme of

MOVEMENT….

Movement could be a very ordinary event,

perhaps something you see happen in the street…Michael Andrews – ‘A Man Who Suddenly Fell Over’ 1952

Movement in the playground…..

Oliver Bevanleft ‘Escape’ right ‘In Full Swing’ (1990s)

MOVEMENT might relate to

movement around the world, and

or the movement between

different cultures. Sonia Boyce

explores in her work both the rich

cultural background of her

Caribbean heritage, and some of

her other work she has

sometimes explored some of the

difficulties and prejudice that she

has encountered.

Movement from your own countryMarc Chagall was exiled from his native Russia and lived in Paris, but

he never forgot his Russian heritage.

Movement could be about the movement of

light changing the appearance of a scene…Monet painted many scenes in series as in the paintings below of

Rouen Cathedral done in the 1890s

Movement in time showing change…..Mark Gilbert documents the work of plastic surgeons operating on

patients with facial deformities. His paintings are done with the

permission of the patients and help to raise money for surgery as in the

two pictures ‘before’ and ‘after’ surgery below (approx 2001)

MOVEMENT could be inspired by something you

have seen on the news and feel strongly about.

The artist below has depicted the difficulty of life in

a part of the world where there is a dispute over

land and many innocent people have been killedJohn Keane

Left – ‘The Road to the Settlement’

Right – ‘Security, Impunity, Geometry

and Terror’

Your piece of work on MOVEMENT could be two pieces meant to be

seen together, perhaps you may want to make some kind of

statement… Lalia al-Shawa’s two pieces ‘Children of Peace’ (top

picture) and ‘Children of War’ (bottom picture) are designed to make us

think…..

MOVEMENT could be a picture that tells a story – perhaps

there is more going on than we first think….as in Paula

Rego’s ‘The Dance’ 1988

Remember -

• There are many different ways of researching this theme. It is very important that you gather your own information quickly so that you can discuss your idea easily with your teacher

• You will need to do some drawings from direct observation first. The quality of these drawings is very important so do your best!

• You could also take photographs, make collages and scan images into the computer and distort them as a means of further developing your ideas

• You should think carefully about the work of other artists that could help you to develop your ideas – you will be asked to show this research demonstrate how you have made use of them.

Previous examples of year 11

work on the theme of

MOVEMENT

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Fun with Materials

Learning different painting techniques

Abstract Painting

Draw on your own experiences

Movement

Education

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