Organic vs. None Organic STRUCTURES Organic vs. None Organic Year 10 The William Allitt School

ORGANIC STRUCTURES Unusual ways of seeing… and viewing the world around you. Structures that cannot be seen by the naked eye. Bodily form – both of humans and animals Structures in the environment, e.g. plants, crops and flowers Creatures and things found in the sea Wildlife Material and textiles

Experimenting with printing techniques? Particles & Crystals Experimenting with printing techniques? Large and small scale observational drawing? DNA, X-rays

Microscopic hair

Artist Influence – Land Art and Structures in the Environment Unusual materials, ephemeral artworks, simple shapes and patterns… Changing the landscape, altering the environment. …drawing and painting with sticks, using dirt or recycled materials, adding sand to paint?

Satellite Images

Colour, size, shape, texture, brightness Mixed media technique: build relief with polyfila, sand, glue, paint?

Artist Influence - Shapes & Patterns in Bodily Structures Online Artist Materials - wood, leather, velvet, wire, string, fur

Using dust, unusual materials, burning, shredding, ripping, tearing? Artist Influence: Cai Guo-Qiang "Drawing for Transient Rainbow“ (2003) Gunpowder on paper, 198 x 157 inches

Mixed Media Techniques Mix printmaking & painting with textiles http://dragonfragments.blogspot.com/2006/08/art-quilts_17.html

Mixed Media Techniques Use a macro lens to take photos & manipulate images in Photoshop using variety of special effects

Mixed Media Techniques Print directly from structures (leaves, skin etc.) Hair or fur to form structures, overlaid onto photographs of skin. Rhythmic drawing process that responds to and works against the photographic information. Jon Mahnke blog.lib.umn.edu/clyne003/mfa/

Mechanical Structures Car engine parts Robots Technology Circuit board Engineering Design Cogs

Technology Using grids, CAD and digital formats? Collecting old mechanical bits and bobs?

New Medias ‘Povesti’ Digital Artist Online blogs, sites, digital imagery, photocopying, editing, cropping? Photoshop Elements

Artist Influence: H R Giger Computer games, films and fantasy images. Horror, mystery, imagination? Artist Influence: H R Giger

Bernd and Hiller Repetition, pattern, series, etc. Industry, building, architecture? Pitheads 1974" © Bernd & Hilla Becher

Andreas Gursky Editing photographs and digital imagery to create an impact Looking at mass media, technology and Post Modern society.

Contrasting Structures

When do organic and mechanical meet in the middle? Organic or None Organic Veins, circuits, electricity, heart rate, pulse Robots, clones, people Satellite images of the Earth appear mechanical Google Earth – technology and the environment Scale & distance Beauty vs. horror Maps and coordinates of the world Mother nature vs. disaster Hand drawn vs. digital image

Sharp or Smooth? Hard or Soft? Loud or Quiet? Straight or Curved? Robotic or Human?

Artist Influence – Beauty & Horror in Organic Structures Helen Chadwick – British Artist (1953 -1996) Her work often reflected her sometimes uneasy relationship with her own body, using organic materials, such as meat, flowers and chocolate

Artist Influence Damien Hirst – British Artist Glass tanks containing animal carcasses suspended in formaldehyde, suspended between life and death

Develop ideas which are informed by your varied forms of research, writing about the decisions you are making along the way. Refine ideas by experimenting with a wide range of materials, techniques and processes. Record ideas, observations and the process in visual and/ or other forms. Present a thoughtful response that sums up your journey