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

2. 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

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

4. Microscopic hair

5. 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?

6. Satellite Images

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

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

9. 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

10. Mixed Media Techniques
Mix printmaking & painting with textiles

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

12. 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/

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

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

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

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

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

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

19. Contrasting Structures

20. 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

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

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

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

24. 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