Art and Design GCSE - Year 11 Notice Board - Mock Exam

Year 11 Exam Preparation Project

'SUPERSTITIONS"

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YEAR 11 GCSE ART MOCK EXAM – GUIDANCE SHEET.

TOPIC - SUPERSTITIONS:
Old wives tales, folklore, folk songs, fairy tales, bizarre beliefs, taboos, omens, lucky and unlucky things, myths and legends, proverbs, sayings.
Death Superstitions, Wedding Superstitions (something old, new, borrowed, blue), Dreams & Nightmares (meanings and omens).
Superstitions linked to celebrations and times of year (Christmas-Holly, Ivy, Mistletoe, Easter-white rabbit, eggs, Spring – maypole dancing, Morris Dancing, Halloween - horror. Friday the Thirteenth, Witchcraft, Voodoo, Spells, Shaman, Ghouls and Ghosts, Nursery Rhymes.
Lucky Mascots, Ladders, broken mirrors, lucky black cats, nine lives, feathers, birds (magpies - one for sorrow, two for joy….., crows, owls, peacocks) fairies, goblins, dwarfs, ogres, mermaids, monsters, the bogey man, the Green Man, Angels, Monsters, Dragons, Unicorns.

Superstitions and myths from different times, countries and cultures: Greek, Roman, Viking, Chinese proverbs, Pagan.

Students choosing this option need to work towards producing a final imaginative /fantasy drawing or painting, based on creative collage work, drawings and computer generated work. (Similar to the way we worked for the “Lucy in the Sky’ project).

TASKS:
1) Produce a really detailed brainstorm. Get lots of initial ideas and then begin to research. (Use the Internet. Google ‘Superstitions’).

2) Begin to collect research material, especially examples of work by other artists who have tackled the same subject matter or used the same techniques. (See the suggestions below).
Also collect images linked with the superstition you have chosen – large good quality images that you will be able to draw from.
 
3) Collecting some really good quality collage material. (Women’s glossy magazines are the best type as they have images of people and good range of patterns, colours and textures). Argos catalogues can also be useful, as can newspapers, especially the weekend ones with the colour supplements.)

DO AS MUCH OF THIS AS YOU CAN OVER THE HOLIDAY, & BRING IN TO THE FIRST LESSON BACK (WED.  3RD SEPT).
Remember: The better your collage material and research, the better your ideas will be,  & the higher marks you will get!!!

SUGGESTED ARTISTS:
Paula Rego - (Modern painter - Nursery Rhymes & Fairy Stories)
Maurice Sendak – (Children’s Illustrator - ‘Where the Wild Things Are’, ‘Inside Over There’)
Ana Maria Pacheco (Modern Painter - Nightmares and dreamlike images of people).
Hieronymous Bosch (Painter from Middle Ages - Nightmares and dreamscapes)
Sara Fanelli (Modern Illustrator - ‘Mythical Monsters of Ancient Greece’, ‘Pinocchio’ www. sarafanelli.co uk – have a look at all the strange collage characters in her online portfolio)
Patrick Woodroffe – (Modern Illustrator – Fantasies, Monsters, Nightmares and Daydreams.)
Brian Froud and Alan Lee – (Modern Illustrators ‘Faeries’ a book of fairytale characters from fairies to goblins.)
Dave Mckean – (Modern Illustrator ‘The Wolves in the Wall’)
Lynne Perrella – (Modern Collage artist & Illustrator www.LKPerrella.
Teesha Moore – ( Modern collage artist www.teeshamoore.com - look at her journal pages on the website for ideas and techniques.

Suggested ideas to base your image on:
C.S Lewis – ‘The chronicles of Narnia (The Lion the Witch and The Wardrobe’.)
‘Jabberwocky’ poem by Lewis Carol, based on ‘St. George and the Dragon’.
‘McCavity the Mystery Cat’ by T. S Elliot from ’Old Possum’s Book of practical Cats’, on which the musical ‘Cats’ was based.
Illustration for one or a series of Nursery Rhymes, fairytales, sayings or proverbs.
Illustrate a story or characters from Greek, Roman, Norse mythology (Pandora’s Box, Medusa, Minotaur, Pegasus the winged horse).

Illustration to a children’s story that includes superstition.
Illustrations to Aesops Fables, ‘The Tales of Braer Rabbit’. ‘The Hare and the Tortoise’.
Illustrate songs and lyrics – ‘Angels’ by Robbie Williams. ‘Voodoo’, ‘Spellbound’ by Siouxsie and the Banshees. Kate Bush – ‘Lionheart’. David Bowie – ‘Scary Monsters (Super creeps)’, Echo and the Bunnymen – ‘The Killing Moon’, ‘The Cutter’.

Suggested sayings: (Look at The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs)

The early bird catches the worm. A wolf in sheep’s clothing. Every cloud has a silver lining. Too many cooks spoil the broth. Home is where the heart is. The longest way round is the shortest way home. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.  It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good. It’s the last straw that breaks the camel’s back. Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone. Like a needle in a haystack. A leopard does not change his spots. A barking dogs never bites. When the cat’s away, the mice will play. Lightening never strikes in the same place twice. Love is blind. Love makes the world go around. Many hands make light work. Money is the root of all evil. Time flies. Two heads are better than one. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. The good die young.