Pat SteirArtist model

1.3 Generate and develop ideas in making art works

Visual Arts 1.3Generate and develop ideas in making

art works

• This achievement standard involves decision making and use of a range of media and techniques to record information, generate and develop ideas from subject matter, and showing how these are based on established practice.

Achievement CriteriaAchievement Achievement with Merit Achievement with Excellence

1. Show evidence of decision making and appropriate use of a range of media and techniques in recording information and developing ideas from subject matter.

1. Show evidence of purposeful decision making and control of a range of media and techniques in recording information and developing ideas from subject matter.

1. Show evidence of purposeful decision making and fluent control of a range of media and techniques in recording information, and developing and clarifying ideas from subject matter.

1. Show that ideas, techniques or conventions from established practice have been used in own work.

1. Show that ideas, techniques or conventions from established practice have been developed in own work.

1. Show that ideas, techniques or conventions from established practice have been developed and integrated into own work.

Explanatory Notes

• Evidence of ability to generate and develop ideas will be identified in a range of work within or across selected fields.

– This may involve different processes, procedures, materials and techniques, all of which can be understood as drawing.

– In effect, being able to make paintings, photographs, prints or sculpture, or to develop design ideas, is dependent upon recognising and using drawing as a thinking and working process.

– Drawing is an ongoing decision making process that enables a continuum to be established and maintained. Aspects of drawing are also identifiable in finished work. For example:

• Painting drawing may include drawing notes, sketches, monochromatic and colour studies, collage, small works and finished works.

• Photography drawing may include sketches, compositional notes, proof sheets, working prints, photograms, collage, montage and digital processes, and photographs.

• Printmaking drawing may include sketches, drawing notes, monochromatic and/or colour studies, collage, proof and developmental prints and finished prints.

• Sculpture drawing will include drawing in 2-dimensions and 3-dimensions. Sketches, drawing notes, worksheets, plans, models, maquettes, photocollage and digital processes, and finished sculpture may also be included. Similarly, the investigation of materials and techniques to understand their formal and expressive properties may also be considered as drawing and can be an appropriate way to begin generating ideas.

• Design drawing may include research, analysis, recording, concept and visualisation, worksheets, roughs, mock-ups, models and evaluative notes, refinements and solutions in response to the brief or design situation.

• Computer, digital and static photographic processes are evidence of drawing when used to plan, test and refine ideas. For 3-dimensional design, investigation of materials and techniques to understand their formal and expressive properties may also be considered drawing.

• Students must explore artistic conventions in the generation and development of their own work.

• Works presented should be related and must involve a range of media and techniques as these apply across different art fields.

• Range of media involves students clearly showing evidence of working with more than one media. For example media can include: paint, pencil, ink, collage, charcoal, pastel, photographic or digital media.

• Established practice refers to work by artists that is recognised as belonging to a particular genre, style or way of working. Learning from established practice is often referred to as ‘learning by example’. Students may investigate solutions found in past and contemporary practice. In this context, it would not be necessary to identify individual artists. A range of examples of art works could be studied and selected because of the style, issue or problem they address. Students should study the work of more than one artist.

The Breughel Series ( a Vanitas of Style) Polychrome. 1982-4 oil on canvas, 64 panels each 67x53cm

Artist

Pat Steir

The Night Chant Series No 3 Dawn 1973 oil crayon and pencil on canvas 213 x 213

The Night Chant Series No 1 Beauty Way for JB 1973 oil on canvas 182 x 182

Or 1973 oil on canvas 182 x 486

Border Lord 1972 oil and pencil on canvas 182 x274

Looking For The Mountain 1971 oil crayon pencil & ink on linen 234 x 191cm

Bird 1969

Nabaye Tabastan for L T & R 1974 oil pencil and metallic paint on canvas 213 x 213cm

As I Am Forgotton 1974 oil on canvas 213 x 213cm

Artist: Nicky Foreman

Unitled 2001 oil on canvas

Unitled 2001

oil on canvas

Unitled 2001 oil on canvas

Excellence• This portfolio shows evidence of purposeful decision making and fluent control of a range of media and techniques• in recording, and developing and resolving ideas from subject matter. It shows that ideas, techniques, or

conventions• from artists’ works have been developed and integrated into the candidate’s own work.• • Fluent control of a range of media and techniques begins with the highly accurate observational painting of• flowers in the first panel, and continues through each successive work in all media. The work shows sophisticated• control of tonal range within a limited palette of earthy colours. Surfaces and textures are handled with skill.• • Evidence of purposeful decision making has been shown in the choice and integration of media in compositions• throughout the submission. The woodblock print of insects from the top of panel one has been successfully• linked into compositions in panels two and three.• • Resolving ideas from subject matter is demonstrated in the work on the bottom of panel three. The candidate• has used ideas developed throughout the panels, but has used overlapping of objects, texture and changes of• scale to create a composition that shows their understanding of the ideas they have studied.• • Ideas, techniques or conventions from artists’ works have been developed and integrated into own work. The• candidate has explored a range of ideas such as the grid, observational drawing, scale, surfaces and linear• drawing in their work. The candidate has not tried to follow the style of the artists studied, but has carefully• integrated ideas to create their own work. This is particularly evident in panel three.

Merit• This portfolio shows evidence of purposeful decision making and control of a range of media and techniques in• recording information and developing ideas from subject matter. It also shows that ideas, techniques or conventions• from artists’ works have been developed in the candidate’s own work.• • Purposeful decision making can be seen in the choice of colours that have been used throughout the portfolio,• as well as in differences in each successive work. This candidate introduces the idea of objects having• different scales, and makes purposeful decisions to overlap objects, especially at the bottom of panel two.• • Control of a range of media is shown in the way wet and dry media is used fairly consistently to show• observed details in the plant in the top left of panel one, and in describing texture and surface throughout the• portfolio, by blending and layering of paint. Textured surfaces have been successfully built up under the• paintings on panels two and three.• • Ideas, techniques or conventions from artists’ works have been developed by the candidate by integrating• their own subject matter and determining what aspects of the artists’ works to develop in their own work. The• last work on panel three shows that the candidate has begun to break away a little more from the ideas of the• artist.

Achieved• This portfolio shows evidence of decision making in the use of a range of media and techniques

in recording• information and developing ideas from subject matter. It also shows that ideas, techniques or

conventions from• artists’ works have been used in the candidate’s own work.• • Evidence of decision making can be seen in the way objects have been selected, placed and

rearranged• within each composition. The choices of colour and media the candidate has used for this body of

work show• more decision making has occurred.• • Use of a range of media and techniques has been shown in the variety of dry and wet media

that has been• included in this portfolio. Many of the compositions use a combination of textural media to assist

the exploration• of surface.• • Recording information can be seen in the relatively accurate drawings of insects and plants in

the first panel.• The drawings show careful observation and detail.• • Developing ideas can be seen in the way the grid, the use of linear drawing across

compositions, and the reuse• of particular artist conventions (like paint runs and colour test patches) are explored and linked

cross the• panels. In this case the artist model is quite closely reflected in the candidate’s work.