Practical PortfolioIn year 13 you will take more responsibility for the direction of your own artistic practice than in year 12. Led by the research for your Curatorship Task, you will devise your own practical brief and framework to follow.
This is an opportunity to really explore an area that interests you and produce a highly personal outcome. |
Writing your own brief
What is a brief?
A brief is a planning document that specifies an area of interest, what a project has to achieve and by what means.
Your practical work this term is based upon the area you have started to investigate for your Curatorship Task. It should be based upon themes, styles, issues or concerns of the artists you have been studying.
Past briefs include:
To help you begin the practical element and to ensure you are meeting AO1 (Develop- includes artist research) and AO3 (Record) we suggest that you set yourself 4 observational tasks and 4 research and / or collecting tasks to be completed during the next two weeks. These should be specific and detailed.
Example observational starting points (numbers correlate with the briefs above):
A brief is a planning document that specifies an area of interest, what a project has to achieve and by what means.
Your practical work this term is based upon the area you have started to investigate for your Curatorship Task. It should be based upon themes, styles, issues or concerns of the artists you have been studying.
Past briefs include:
- Explore how artists have used text within their work. Examine the intentions of the work, whether it is autobiographical, issue based or scientific etc. Use this research to create your own text based work.
- “Allegory is a form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral, social, religious, or political significance, and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas as charity, greed, or envy.” Source: www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/allegory.html
- Create a piece of work where you personify abstract emotions eg. vulnerability, deceit etc. You may wish to consider animation or film.
- David Royle creates “…complex, challenging works that deliberately attract and repel…They take us in and out of the mind, through familiar and hallucinatory interiors and exteriors, and leave us on the edge of space.” Create a piece or series of pieces that build upon the intentions of the work by David Royle. Consider the varied points of perspective that he uses in his work and the intense feeling of claustrophobia.
- Use the experiences of women during the war to inspire a piece or series of pieces. These may have been women near the front or women coping at home. The experiences may be fictional (for example developed from the book ‘Atonement”, or maybe from real life stories (look at www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWwomen.htm).
To help you begin the practical element and to ensure you are meeting AO1 (Develop- includes artist research) and AO3 (Record) we suggest that you set yourself 4 observational tasks and 4 research and / or collecting tasks to be completed during the next two weeks. These should be specific and detailed.
Example observational starting points (numbers correlate with the briefs above):
- Word association with objects, issues, places and people.
- Drawings of the figure in poses that personify emotions or particular character traits.
- Drawings of interiors and objects within a domestic setting.
- Eg. Drawings of the figure in poses that illustrates aspects of the stories you discover.
- Read the essay at www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue3/butisitinstallationart.htm This will give you several artists’ names and starting points.
- Eg. Look at the work: ‘The Calumny of Apelles’ by Sandro Botticelli,1490. Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calumny_of_Apelles_(Botticelli) to help you understand the image.
- Eg. Go to the website www.beardsmoregallery.com/show_roy.htm and bullet point five points about David Royle’s intentions and five points about his technique.
- Collate personal stories from www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWwomen.htm and other sources.
Brief proforma
Once your brief has been approved by your teachers you must present it clearly in your book.
A copy of this document must be given to your teacher during your first lesson of the week beginning 19th September. You should be prepared to continue with the tasks you have set yourself during each lesson. If you are not prepared with objects, images or research you will be sent away.
All Research and Observational tasks must be complete by the Week beginning 3rd October when your sketchbooks will be taken in for assessment.
A copy of this document must be given to your teacher during your first lesson of the week beginning 19th September. You should be prepared to continue with the tasks you have set yourself during each lesson. If you are not prepared with objects, images or research you will be sent away.
All Research and Observational tasks must be complete by the Week beginning 3rd October when your sketchbooks will be taken in for assessment.
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