The Fantastical World of ART!

We have been incredibly busy in the Art department this year!

Semester 1 included Year 7 completing line drawings of fruit while also creating 3D reliefs using string and tissue. Year 8 looked at anatomy, concentrating on skulls and muscles, again, focussing on those all-important observational skills!

Year 9 spent the whole of the term looking at Architecture - focussing on the Italian Rennaissance while using Artists such as Hundertwasser and Gillian Ayres for inspiration.

Ali and Rikkardo printing Isometric tiles.

Semester 2 saw Year 7 looking at Henna patterns and Arican masks as we looked at the range of cultures in our community. Year 8 looked at Leonardo da Vinci's designs for a flying machine and we attempted to create our own flying machine by looking at animals for inspiration - just as da Vinci did hundreds of years ago!

Semester 3 was the wire-fish semester as we looked at fish to inspire our own fish mobiles - looking briefly at the mobiles by Alexander Calder. Year 8 on the other hand looked at Eastern Art - specifically Japanese Manga structure and design and Chinese scrolls towards the end of the semester.

A few fish

Year 9 began a new project - focussing on portraiture, looking at Francis Bacon, Giacometti and Picasso. A fantastic term culminating in a cubist mix of materials and artistic styles.

Semester 4 was all flowers and films as Year 7 looked at the close-up, flower studies of Georgia O'Keeffe, while Year 8 designed costumes for a 19th Century film and design Western sets using perspective. Semester 5 was explosive - as Year 8's looked at War & Peace - specifially the prints by Otto Dix and 'Guernica' by Picasso. Year 7 throughout the entire term built up a landscape with a volcano - from planning out the 'plot' of land through to priming the surface, to then painting the landscape and then creating texture with sawdust and PVA  glue.

Osi studying the late, great Otto Dix!

Year 9's began looking at culture, creating 3D egyptian Scarab beetles and making multi-cultural works of art during their Mock Exam.

This final semester for Year 7's is all about Van Gogh and Impressionism - know how to apply paint and choose paintbrushes to create their own 'Starry Night'. But for the Year 8's, it is the last many of them will see of Art before they enter into their GCSE studies here at TPA, so they are questioning What truly is Art? Graffiti? Abstract paintings showing expression? Aboriginal symbols? Its up to them ...

TEXTILES YEAR 9.

The students in Art Textiles have been working on a number of projects this year, including 'Trash Fashion', looking at designing with recycled materials such as bin bags, old curtains and blinds and newspaper.