Exam evaluation: Word and Image -- A* - page 3
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By georgie1 on 31/12/2009
Level: GCSE Key Stage 4 (Years 10-11)
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subject into her work, about controversial matters. I selected her portrait of Kate Moss with the speech ‘I only make love to Jesus’. This links with my subject of femininity in the sense that it is a sexual statement that is ironically innocent. I liked the irony of the statement and used this technique in my final piece. I also liked the painting techniques that use thick brush strokes and bold colour, like pop art, to express the mood, yet use tone to deepen the meaning, give more emotion to the image and to make the piece even more believable. The second artist that I studied was Tom Phillips, and looked at his work of ‘A Humument’. This work involved pages from a book that he has drawn over using a wide variety of media (ranging from paints, pencil, pastels, collage) and left words exposed that could be perceived differently. The image on the page that I focussed on was very abstract yet I felt told a story, and he split it up into sections using thick dark lines. I liked how he did this, so that each section could almost ‘speak for itself’. This influenced me in my final piece because I split my work into sections using lace. The third artist that I looked at was Roy Lichtenstein, an extremely famous pop artist renowned for his sexist series about a couple, and how a wife depends on her husband. I was influenced by this work by having an image of a seemingly perfect person, with an expression on their face that portrayed a slight uneasiness or unhappiness. I also used his compositional technique of having a woman filling the middle of the page and having words at either the top of the bottom of the image. The final artist that I studied was Barbara Kruger, a feminist artist that focuses primarily on portraiture combined with statements promoting feminism and human rights. Again, several pieces of her work use ironic words and I felt extremely influenced by her. My final piece similarly used two portraits and two statements: one questioning female expectations and one ironically contrasting with the images. I also used similar colours to that of the majority of Kruger’s work, with a greyscale image (that I drew in pencil) and red and white text.
Following my primary research, I developed my idea and looked at the promotion
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