Self Image: GCSE Art and Design

Concluding Updated on January v, 2022

This article features an A* AQA GCSE Art and Design test project by Charlotte Cook. The projection was based upon the theme 'Cocky Paradigm' and was completed at South Hunsley School, England, Uk. Charlotte writes about her projection below.

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I began investigating the artists Dan Hillier, Francis Bacon and Korehiko Hino. I used their piece of work to help me reverberate upon myself and to understand the techniques of expressing inner image. I found before on that I wanted to closely explore feet and also the feeling/fear of things not being quite correct.

Later on, I looked at isolation and questioned if it is self-imposed, fear of the unknown, masking with veils and cleansing with gas-masks. I looked generally at interactions with myself and others and the consequences of keeping things concealed.

A shut upward transcription of an oil painting by Korehiko Hino.

When I stumbled across Korehiko Hino's oil paintings I was struck by the asymmetric figures created. They did seem human, withal something in their faces wasn't correct. Their eyes were too big, also far apart and almost void of expression or mentality. I really liked this, as it gave a barrier betwixt us and the infantile figures. The transcription I made above was a digital painting made on Photoshop. This really helped me focus on colour and class.

Following this, I analysed the work of Dan Hillier. The transcription I fabricated on the lower right (below) was done with a quill and ink. I rather enjoyed Hillier'southward unworldly creatures with elements of Victorian England. It also reminded me of H. P. Lovecraft's writing. I found the ink really fun and the oddness of the almost familiar figures interesting.

Assay of work by Dan Hillier (above) and a sketchbook folio exploring isolation and loneliness.

On the left (above) is a partly finished design that shows a woman being left to drown in a lake by some other figure who walks off into the mountains. I like this, as she cannot see who has left her but the other effigy is ignorant too. On the right is a singular figure who wears a hairy cloak and bleeds from the mouth. The acrylic I used in the background is creeping up behind her, while she is unaware.

A limerick study exploring the idea of revealing secrets.

The idea to a higher place emerged from allowing yourself to let things become and to reveal yourself and secrets to others, for me this was 24 different things. Firstly I roughly designed a layout of a girl laid in flowers with tendrils growing from her brain (23 to exist exact) out to the skies. I then composed a photo to grade imagery, which was closer to what I was looking for, and added disconnecting easily, 1 to her centre and the other hidden from sight. This hidden paw was to show that there are still things left to disclose, one thing left. All the daisies have 24 written inside of them.

Investigating the thought of obscured faces and nonhuman form.

I was looking at veils of nuns from Russia, England and Spain; I also looked at hijabs, burqas and wedding ceremony veils. This is similar to the thought of a box around the face, that I explored earlier, except more than is revealed, yet obscured. I used this isolation to create a creature conjoined with nonhuman characteristics, tied in with horror-filled imagery. I just like how it is piece of cake to keep up a pretence, when y'all remove what people can see of you lot, nonetheless you cannot determine how they volition see you…

These ideas explore the slicing up of facial features, and removing yourself from the equation.

Using Photoshop I recreated my face with as if the gas mask was bone structure. Like a disguise, it forms a barrier.

This is the series I took with my ii models, using them to explore interactions between each other and closing each other off.

The clothing I used in the photo shoot above was fitting to the aesthetic I wanted: naïve and juvenile. I also wanted two unlike sizes of models; one petite, then the other would tower over. In the second to bottom image (to a higher place), the figure on the right looks away wearing a mask to cleanse out and keep in 'polluting' ideas. Still the other covers her face, both in isolation.

Hither is my concluding composition and experimentation with materials. My final piece looks at the puzzler of protection versus isolation, which I had faced.

With this project I learnt a lot – from mistakes with my evolution process and realising how placing more structure and allowing more than time is the way to brand conclusions stronger and easier to find.

I wish I had looked back at my work more than to find a stronger conclusion and to really run across what I was trying to get at.

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