Wednesday 18 July 2018

Y10 GCSE Art - Holiday Homework - Animals Birds Fish and Insects - Artist Links

Edwin Landseer

Monarch Of The Glen 1851 Oil Painting


Study Of A Lion 1862


Edwin Landseer Paintings Link


Edwin Landseer Trafalgar Square Lions completed 1867



Heather Jansch

Driftwood Sculpture -  Horses






George Stubbs 


Whistlejacket 1762


Henri Rousseau 


Surprised Tiger in a Tropical Storm 1891

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Look at his other paintings of Tigers too

Tipu's Tiger








circa 1790 

Sculpture that is also a musical instrument

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Sophie Ryder - Wire Animals And Sculpture




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Monday 5 February 2018

Limitations and or Freedom. EDEXCEL A Level Art 2018


The term Gordian knot refers to a problem most difficult of solution. It is a metaphor for an intractable problem.

Alexander the Great famously cut the Gordian knot, which nobody else had been able to undo, at Gordium, the capital city of ancient Phrygia located where the Royal Road crossed the Sangarius River 47 miles southwest of present-day Ankara, the capital of Turkey, thereby fulfilling the prophecy that whoever undid the knot would become master of Asia 

Rat King is a curious phenomena where groups of rats living squashed together have had their tails sticky with water or grease or waste become matted together. These bizarre groups have survived been joined for surprising lengths of time. 



Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd non violence 1985 Bronze Sculpture











Sunday 28 January 2018

Easter Island Heads on Easter Island South Pacific.
 What many who see them do not realise, is that the Heads are Fragments remaining after the original sculptures were buried by the descendents of the people who made them


Archaeologists discovered what was buried beneath the ground
So have you ever stood still and wondered what is beneath your feet? Wondered what you are walking over


NEWGRANGE Burial Mound and Temple Southern Ireland 

Newgrange Burial Mound was constructed in 3200 BC and is 5000 years old, older than Stonehenge. It was forgotten and thought to be a small hill until 1699 when the entrance and tunnels were rediscovered and opened up. There are similar hills and mounds around Newgrange and on the Salisbury plains near Stonehenge. The Neolithic people didn't leave a map or a list





Closer to us in time and geographically is London. 2000 years of settlement, sewers, power, water, covered over rivers, layers of the underground. And this is just the stuff we know about. When they dug the first Thames pedestrian tunnel in 1820's workers became ill coming into contact with bacteria trapped
in the mud under the Thames for thousands of years
Thames Tunnel is a underground tunnel now





The Ordinary World Beneath our Feet: ‘Underground’ by David Macaulay