Natural Formsin Art

MYP Visual Art

Assessment ObjectivesCriterion A-Knowledge and Understanding

RESEARCH – IMAGES & ARTISTS

Develop your ideas through investigations informed by contextual and other

sources, demonstrating analytical and cultural understanding.

EXPERIMENTS WITH MEDIA

Refine your ideas through experimenting and selecting appropriate resources,

media, materials, techniques and processes.

IDEAS, OBSERVATIONAL DRAWINGS & EXPLANATIONS

Record ideas, observations and insights relevant to your intentions in visual

and/or other forms.

FINAL IDEA & FINAL PIECE, LINKS WITH ARTISTS

Present a personal, informed and meaningful response demonstrating

analytical and critical understanding, realizing intentions and making

connections between visual or other elements.

• Natural forms are objects in nature in their original form.

• Examples:-

What are Natural Forms?

What are Natural Forms?

• Natural forms are objects in nature in their original form.

• Examples:-

• Leaves, flowers, pine cones, seaweed, shells, bones, insects, stones, fossils, crystals, feathers, birds, fish, animals – in fact anything you can find in nature – complete or part of it.

Some key words...

CompositionForm.

Pattern Tone

Contrast

TextureNature

Natural Forms ResearchFor your Developmental Workbook pages

you are going to be creating a 2-page spread researching Artists that use Natural Forms in their work.

You are also going to be experimenting with different medias using pencil, paint and print.

Mono-chrome

The first Artist you need to research should be an Artist that works primarily in Mono-chrome. You are going to create your own illustration in addition to finding out facts and adding your opinions on their work.

Karl Blossfeldt 1865-1932

• Karl Blossfeldt is best known for his beautiful photographs of plant forms.

• Originally, the photographs were intended to be used as teaching aids and making sculptures, but became popular when a selection of his photographs were published in the book Urformen der Kunst (Archetypes of Art) in 1928.

Plate # 56: Aspidium filix mas (magnified 4 times)Photogravure, printed in 1928.

Plate # 76: Eranthis cilicica (magnified 8 times)Photogravure, printed in 1928.

Karl Blossfeldt

Plate # 77: Cephalaria (magnified 10 times)Photogravure, printed in 1928.

Plate # 92: Acanthus mollis (magnified 4 times)Photogravure, printed in 1928.

Karl Blossfeldt

Photogravures Urformen der Kunst 1929

Karl Blossfeldt

Photogravures Urformen der Kunst 1929

Karl Blossfeldt

Edward Weston 1886-1958Weston explored natural form through black and white photography.

Pepper, 1930negative, Cole Weston printShell, 1927 Vintage gelatin silver print

(to the right) Carefully broken pebblesscratched white with another stoneSt. Abbs, Scotland1 June 1985

Andy GoldsworthyAndy Goldsworthy is a British artist who works with nature, natural form and the natural environment to make his creations.

1956 - present

Peter Randall-Page is an extraordinary British sculptor and visual artist whose connection to nature began in the Sussex countryside. For Randall-Page, organic forms are places to begin, shapes that push the artist to explore his own response to them.

Three Fruit , Kilkenny limestone, 1986

Peter Randall-Page 1954 - Present

Three Graces  1994 ,Etching on paper

Peter Randall-Page

Drawings for Overbecks, pen and ink, 1990

Peter Randall-Page

Painting

The second Artist you need to research should be an Artist that works primarily with paint. You are going to create your own illustration in addition to finding out facts and adding your opinions on their work.

Georgia O’Keefe 1887-1986

• O’Keefe was an American artist who lived in the arid Arizona desert.

• She painted still life natural forms of objects found around in her environment.

Red Poppy, Oil Painting, 1927

• O’Keefe’s paintings are beautifully contoured forms, realistically painted but using unusual combinations of objects.

• She expertly painted subtle tones and colours.

Ram's Skull, Oil Painting, 1935

Georgia O’Keefe

Yayoi Kusama 1929 - present

• Kusama is a Japanese American artist who works in a wide variety of media and techniques – prints, sculptures and installations.

• Her starting point is often natural form.

PUMPKIN (TOTW) Acrylic on canvas 2003

Raoul Dufy

Strauß Aronstab 1939

Dufy was a French Fauvist painter. He developed a colourful, decorative style that became fashionable for designs and ceramics.

1877 - 1953

Paul Cezanne Paul Cézanne was a French Post- Impressionist painter.  1839 -1906

Still Life with Apples, Oil Painting 1890

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Henri MatisseHenri Matisse was a French artist, known for his use of colour. He was a draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter.

1869 - 1954

La Gerbe, one of Matisse's latest works (1953).

Henri Matisse

"Irises” Oil Painting 1889

Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work has far-reaching influence on 20th Century art due to its vivid colours and emotional impact.

1953 - 1890

Flight of the Magnolia, Oil on Canvas, 1944

Paul Nash Paul Nash was an English landscape painter, surrealist and war artist. Here is one of his ‘natural surrealism’ pieces inspired by found objects

1889 - 1846

Juan Cotan

Born in Orgaz, Spain. He is a painter who is considered one of the pioneers of Baroque realism in Spain. A profoundly religious man, he is best known for his still lifes, which in their visual harmony and illusion of depth convey a feeling of humility and mystic spirituality.

Still Life with Dead Birds, Fruit and Vegetables, Detail, 1602

 1561 - 1627

Still life with Game Fowl,Vegetables and Fruit 1602

Juan Cotan

Still life of a tulip, a melon and flowers on a ledge, Oil Painting

Rachel Ruysch

1664 - 1750

Rachel Ruysch was a Dutch artist who specialized in still-life paintings. She was one of three significant female artists in Dutch Golden Age painting.

Psalm 27: Hirst's butterfly and enamel paint on canvas

Damien Hirst

1965 to present

Hirst explores the uncertainty at the core of human experience; love, life, death, loyalty and betrayal through unexpected and unconventional media.

"Happy Head No 7,” gloss household paint on resin skull and wooden base, 9 1/2 by 9 by 9 1/2 inches, 2007

Damien Hirst

'Study of Roses', 1976 Acrylic on canvas

Patrick Caulfield1936 – 2005

Patrick Caulfield was an English painter and printmaker.

In the early 1960s Caulfield’s painting was characterised by flat images and objects paired with angular geometric devices. He adopted the technique of the sign painter simplifying objects to a basic black.

Print-making

The third Artist you need to research should be an Artist that works primarily with print. You are going to create your own illustration in addition to finding out facts and adding your opinions on their work.

Patrick Caulfield

Fruit and Bowl, Print (Screen Print) 1979-1980

1936 – 2005

Patrick Caulfield was an English painter and printmaker.

In the early 1960s Caulfield’s painting was characterised by flat images and objects paired with angular geometric devices. He adopted the technique of the sign painter simplifying objects to a basic black.

Andy Warhol

"Flowers” - 1964 - 1970 printing Serigraph

Warhol used bright flat colours in his images. He changes the colours to create his own individual piece of Art work.

Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as ‘Pop Art’

1928 – 1987

Flower For Tacoma DomeScreenprint on Lenox Museum Board. 1982

Andy Warhol

Kiku, 1983

Andy Warhol

Pivoine, flowers, woodcut print, japanese, butterfly, 1800s, 1900s,

Katsushika Hokusai 1760 –1849

Hukusai was a Japanese painter and printmaker of the Edo period. He was one of Japan’s leading experts on Chinese painting. He his best known for his woodblock print series

The Great Wave Off Kanagawa From "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji"; 1823-29, Color woodcut,

Katsushika Hokusai

Sky & Water I, woodcut, 1938

M.C Esher

Esher was a Dutch graphic artist. He is best known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs and mezzotints.

1898 - 1972

1966 Screenprint

Paul Morrison 1966 - present

Melanie Wickhan - present

Pears 9cm x 11cm

The Artist’s website….http://www.melaniewickham.co.uk/index.php