Unit 2 Research - Initial stages

For Wednesday the 24th of Feburary you should have addressed the inital stages of research for your Controlled Assesment:

Unit 2 - Post Presentation class discussion

Katie - Title - Surfaces
Key Issues investigated -

• Surfaces
• Land
• Landscapes
• Emotion
• Mood
• Texture
• Graffiti
  
• Vandalised surfaces
  
• Man-Made surfaces
• Medical Surfaces
  

Class discussed action / Investigation

• The Boyle Family
• Jenny Saville
• Damien Hirst - Split Cow, Pharmacy (Currently at the Baltic till 7th March- Primary source)
  
• Knit 2 - Crafts Council
• Guerrilla Knitting
• Skin grafts, Stitches, bruises, anesthetic, Plastic Surgery
• Autopsy, Operation
• Mummification, Embalming
• Designers - Helmut Lang, Alexander Mcqueen

Daniel - Title - Surfaces
Key Issues investigated -

• Cristo - Wrapping buildings
• World surfaces
• Claire Coyles
• Kathleen & Mcflarlen
  
• WW2 - Make do and mend
• Growth and decay
• Weaving, crochet, knitting, stitching
  
• Yuayana Wantabe

Class discussed action / Investigation

• Issey Miyake
• Natural Dyeing
• Skin & bones
• Animal, vegetable, mineral
• Take for granted - wrapping - makes inquisitive
  
• Wrapping up electrical
• Visual response to wrapping / constraint
  
• Shadows
  
• Resources - coal, oil, gas, what would life be like without
• Dark colours - future bleak if we continue as we are in the surface of our life / world
  

Kat - Title - Organic
Key issues investigated -

• Georgia Okeefe
• Laura Ashley
  
• Worms eye view
• Baby
  
• fetus

Class discussed progression / investigation

• Fetal development - Organic at birth?
• Innocence
• How a child sees the world
• Black and White
• Small
• Life cycle of organic forms

Emma - Title - Organic
Key issues investigated -

• New life
• Green
• Farms
• Recycling
• World - we need to look after it
• Richard Long - Sculptor - works with nature
• Going Nowhere
• Claudia & Monica Araujo - Textiles
  

Class discussed progression / investigation

• Farm animals
• Going nowhere...
• Non machinery - Organic sewing, production
• Find alternative methods
• "Walked in a straight line in a grassy field following his own path, made his own unique route"
• Hand print / moulds
• Mud huts
• House - organic life
• Pestle and mortar
  

• Erin - Title - Surfaces
  Key issues investigated -
  

• The changing surface of our world with seasons
  
• Seasons
• Rebecca Potts - Climate change
• Carolyn Saxby - Distressing
• Global warming

• Class discussed progression / investigation

• Nature during seasonal changes
• Life affected by climate change / seasons
• Floods
• Skin
  
• Body changes
• Covering man-made surfaces with nature - vegetables, herbs etc
  

Rebecka - Title - Embellishment

Key Issues investigated -

• Theatre
• Art Deco
• Coco Channel
• Jazz
• Flappers

Class discussed progression / investigation

• Silent films
• Moulin Rouge
• Books - The Great Gatsby
• Russian Ballet / Gymnastics
• Madame Pompadour
• Can Can
• 1920 dances
• Charleston
• Look at Designers / Textile Artists

Emily - Title - Embellishment

• Italy
• Masquerade ball
• Venice
• Pompeii
• Mafia
• Religion
• Saints
• Artists - Botticelli - Michaelangelo - Donatello
• Designers - Cavalli, Missoni, Pucci

Class discussed action / Investigation

• Venice - Connection of Islands
• Tapestries
• Laing Art Gallery
• Mafia / Religion
• Burned Cities
• Masks - Religion / Hide
• Response to 'hiding / masking' yourself
• Masquerade / religion

Jess M - Title - Organic

• Chloe / Hussain Chalyan
• Georgia O'Keefe
• White
• Natural
• Natural printing

Class discussed action / Investigation

• Define organic and extend visually
• Source 'organic' primary research
• Processes
• Recycle
• Investigate Contemporary Textile designers

Chloe - Title - Embellishment

• Restoration
• Rome - Culture & Fashion
• Divinci
• Alexander Mcqueen

Class discussed action / Investigation

• Roman / Greek Mythology
• Myths
• Lanchester
• Religion
• Investigate Textile Artists

Unit 2 Assignment

You have been provided with your Unit 2 assignment topics. You must Select one of the questions from below to commence your investigations for this Unit.

Initial tasks

1. Produce a spiderdiagram of initial thoughts processes for the questions that you find worth pursuing
2. Selecting a maximum of two questions, produce a short visual presentation that investigates the following:

• Theme exploration
• Influences
• Key issues and trends
• Traditional or contemporary Artists and Designers that have explored the theme you are considering
• Fashion / Textiles Artists that have explored / been inspired by the theme you hare considering
• End Products that may have been influenced by the theme you are considering
• Any other areas that you feel are relevant to the theme you are considering

Quick think - Which Question may have inspired the following works?