The laser cutter is fixed

so get thinking about ways in which you could use it creatively....

why not start with this google image search
to help generate some divergence

The Guardian Newspaper selects 'Artists of the Week'

How much influence do critics and the media have upon shaping our tastes? Who decides what is good or valid in the visual arts?

Dorothy Circus Gallery Rome

THE MAGIC CARAVAN

NAOTO HATTORI & MARK ELLIOTT

exhibition opens on Thursday 28th April

It's only a couple of minutes walk from Campo...

Fredrik Odman Photography

Year 12 Artists

New IWB Task Sheet (with hyperlinks)

The biggest drawing in the world

It's clever and took a long time to make

but is that enough to make it art?

http://biggestdrawingintheworld.com/drawing.aspx

dagagijolemeparoso!

what could it possibly mean ?



http://dagagijolemeparoso.blogspot.com/

Use Qwiki to help kick off your own investigation of artists or themes

I have provided 3 examples in the previous post. View those and try your own

http://www.qwiki.com/

Inside Shani Rhys-James' studio

Some short films about the work of Shani Rhys James, including a time lapse of her studio.

HERE

Artist statement

My desire to produce powerful, emotional paintings which are read for their content, their colour and their abstract elements. I have to be emotionally and mentally taken over by my paintings. They are seemingly direct ; I paint about the studio, the kitchen, the artist, my children, childhood memories. So imaginative and observational elements co-exist in each work.

Post Paris Projects...

Like many other artists, Sean Scully's work has sometimes been inspired by the city of Paris

In this video however, he talks about how he has begun to move away from urban influences and has started to derive his ideas from living in rural Germany.

VIDEO HERE

Pre Paris research for Y12 & 13 IB artists

Thematic Trails in the Louvre

Here

Choose a non European or pre- 10th Century theme/trail to research

Jenny Saville discusses the influence of Francis Bacon's work upon her own painting:

HERE

Y13

Preparing your 30 page CRB sample

Here

Y12 New IWB task

TIME, TEXTURE, PATTERN

(with all hyperlinks to media etc)

Due in January 13th

HERE

Paris Art Expedition 2011

This is our hotel:


View Larger Map

Our Itinerary (obviously you all have the detailed, printed itinerary already)

Thursday: Musee D'Orsay

Friday: Louvre and Pompidou

Saturday: Montmartre and Musee Rodin

Art that vanishes as nature reclaims it...

Jason deCaires Taylor

BIG BANG BIG BOOM - the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Cecilia Granara

Graduated from SGBIS in 2009

Now at St Martin's in London

Here's her website:

http://ceciliagranara.yolasite.com/

sketchbooks

paintings

James Jean

Blog

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS AT
MACRO

SHARE SOME CANDY

Art that you can see from space

More Information about the giant rabbit's creators: GELITIN, and their other works.

Printmaking: Several Y13 and all Y12 students are exploring a range of printmaking techniques Here are some links to the work of famous and less well known artists who have used printmaking.

printmakers council

www.worldprintmakers.com

www.artsconnect.com

www.squidoo.com/blogosprint

www.artoftheprint.com

German Expressionist Prints and Drawings: Portraits and Self-Portraits

rembrandt.parkwestgallery.com/

ukiyo-e

Tom Wood

An old favourite of mine who might inspire a few of you Y12 & 13 students with your ongoing studio work

Click HERE

OR HERE

Happy Famous Artists Blog

Bad Art For Bad People

Some interesting sculptural projects in a range of unusual media

Follow the links to the artists' sites

How does an artist's choice of medium impact upon the final outcome?

Prior to Duchamp & Picasso. most sculptors used ceramics, carved stone, bone, plaster or wood and cast metal to express their ideas. Now available media might include frozen blood, vaseline, waste products, sharks and formaldehyde, condoms, old tights, kebabs, cigarette ends, used engine oil, the artist's own body....

Or in this case - the artist Gianni Motti presents a bar of soap that he claims is made from fat that was liposuctioned from Silvio Berlusconi:


further information here

Link to a downloadable PDF of the latest issue of Aesthetica Magazine

HERE

Cultures Converge

Here is a link to a PDF of the current IWB research task for Y13 (with working hyperlinks to videos and other resources)

What happens to all of those
St George's IB artists
after they leave F floor?

Of course many go on to Foundation courses as well as degrees in Fine Art, Vehicle Design, Toy Design, Textiles, Fashion Design, Illustration, Film, Photography, Video, Book Design, Architecture, Theatre and TV Design, Interior Design - to name but a few...

But then what?

Some become painters, fashion stylists, photographers, designers, sculptors, or may even use their artistic talents to help others. Here are a few examples from recent years:

Amy Griffin

Caroline Conte

Dario Carbone

Bea Bonafini

Phoebe Stannard

Adjmal Dulloo

Salvador Dali walking his anteater.

Was the man himself the real artwork ?

World Food Day 2010

St George's Art on the Saatchi Gallery

(more work to be added soon)

Any of my wonderful St George's artists in London this summer should check out these free workshops:

Click HERE for info

HOW MUCH ART CAN YOU TAKE?

A really useful site that links artworks from different times and cultures by themes. Essential for all GCSE & IB artists - no excuse for not being able to compare and contrast diverse approaches to your chosen themes...

GLOBAL ART

mr morgan's record of the week: Sweet Baboo - How Id Live My Life aka The Bumblebee Song

My money's on the spider (but I feel for the bee), 2009

Oil and graphite on unstretched linen, 83" x 69"

Work by

Rachel Meuler - one of many wonderful artists

on culturehall

I have been looking at free, web-based alternatives to
Photoshop.

Aviary is a collection of programmes that
allow you to explore image and sound editing.

The kaleidoscope image above was created in my
first couple of minutes playing around with
Peacock. It's very different to most image manipulation
software so do watch the demo video first.

Phoenix on the other hand is a much more straight forward
Photoshop clone that features layers.

mr morgan's record of the week: the european 'the settler'

IB ARTISTS SUMMER WORK

NEW IB ARTISTS (Y11 STARTING IB IN SEPTEMBER)

HERE

Y12 ARTISTS GOING INTO Y13 IN SEPTEMBER

HERE

The legendary Bea Bonafini

Work from her foundation course at Chelsea on her gallery
(and even some older stuff from when she was here at SGBIS)

mr morgan's record of the week: Joy Division 'Transmission'

Matt Shlian : Drawings, Sculptures, Videos...

Is it just art for maths teachers though?

Student Art Blog Hub

Artmonkeys: the SGBIS Visual Arts EE WIKI

mr morgan's record of the week: human fly by the cramps

Fecal Face

Interviews with artists & designers

Year 12s considering installation based sculptures might look at

Leandro Erlich

for some surprising possibilities

mr morgan's record of the week: Jesca Hoop 'Feast of the Heart'

Alexa Mead

Paints the real world to look like a painting (better seen than described in writing)

YEAR 12 ARTISTS

HERE IS AN UPDATED VERSION OF THE NEW IWB SHEET

NOW WITH MORE ARTISTS AND DIRECT HYPERLINKS TO

WESITES, PAGES AND VIDEO!!!

Graffiti Analysis 2.0: Digital Blackbook from Evan Roth on Vimeo.

I'm nott a great fan of 'tagging' myself. However, this is an interesting response to the gestures made by the artists.

6 month exposure photographs

Yes - not 125th of a second - but 6 entire months to make each photograph....


Does the length of time taken to make an artwork contribute to its value?






More work by Justin Quinell HERE

Sketchbooks

many lines

Visual Arts Extended Essay Example

Here

Y12 Artists Union Gallery is HERE

Worksheets for this month Here & Here

John Nolan

Y12 Barcelona Sheet COPY

YEAR ELEVEN GCSE ARTISTS

HERE
IS A PDF VERSION OF THE 'WORK, REST & PLAY'

POWERPOINT USED IN THIS WEEK'S ART LESSON

Y11 GCSE ARTISTS!!!!

look here

(Tate Gallery collection by THEME)

Great for finding images depicting Work, Rest & Play!

Jeremy Deller

Turner Prize winning artist

Procession as an artwork:




truly awesome steel band cover of Joy Division's 'Transmission'

Bovey Lee Paper Cuts

more cool pictures than you could shake a stick at....


HERE

I saw this SITE and now I want to make some films

short films

strange little films

Claire Morgan (no relation)

Roberto Kusterle