Identity

I don't say everything, but I paint everything. Pablo Picasso

This project involves generating and developing ideas, using drawing methods relating to established
practice, and using drawing materials, processes and techniques with skills appropriate to the
generation of two and three dimensional art work.

The Aim for Year 12, what do we want to achieve?

o An understanding of the role that drawing plays in thinking, generating and
developing painting compositions
o To record, evaluate, modify and use research materials, applied in the Process
Portfolio
o Develop drawing and painting techniques, explore in the Process Portfolio
o Develop an analytical nature towards Art making. Reflect critically in the Process
Portfolio
o Develop subject specific language
o To experiment and show understanding of a wide range of media in both the
Process Portfolio and in the studio work

Task 1 FINDING OUT
The question of identity and what it is has plagued artists and non-artists alike for centuries. It has
been the foundation of fierce battles, inner turmoil and angst. Your challenge is to research and
discover what you see as your identity at this moment in time.
Use brainstorming and mind mapping techniques to map out what you see as vital aspects of your
identity.



Consider TOK questions of knowledge: We acquire knowledge about the world through language,
perception, reason and emotion, but none of these ways of knowing can give us certainty.

Task 2 FINDING OUT

Use a range of wet and dry media to express yourself. Create images from observation (skills,
techniques and processes) that reflect something about you, your culture, your heritage and your
personal history.
Explain the meaning of these images and reflect on how you may apply them to your final art piece.

Pier Francesco Cittadini
In the arts, vanitas is a type of symbolic work of art especially associated with still life painting in
Flanders and the Netherlands in the 16th and 17th centuries, though also common in other places
and periods. The Latin word means "vanity" and loosely translated corresponds to the
meaninglessness of earthly life and the transient nature of all earthly goods and pursuits.
Paintings executed in the vanitas style were meant to remind viewers of the transience of life, the
futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death. They also provided a moral justification for many
paintings of attractive objects. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanitas



Task 3, Finding Out



Hidden Emotions. Oil on board 107.0 x 190.0
Ancestral Guardians Media: Acrylic on Canvas
Create your own response to the images of selected Artists work in your Process Journal, select the
appropriate drawing media, as an example, if you were responding to the work of Darcy Nicholas
above, you may use pastel, acrylic or some other brightly coloured painterly medium.
Please check the website below for images, personal back ground and more. You will notice that
there is a link to a short documentary at the bottom of the page.
http://www.contemporarymaoriart.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1&Itemi
d=3
Make comments and notes about the issues surrounding identity that you discover from reading
about the artists.
Make a one page comparative study looking at your selected artist and your initial brainstorm. Look
for similarities and differences within the theme, intended message and emotional connection to
self.

Task 4, Sorting Out
You will have to make two pieces of studio work. One will be a major work and the other will be a
supporting piece. As an example you may wish to create a large sculptural piece and support this
with observation drawings. You could create a large painting and support this with photography.
Document your process in your process journal ensuring that you communicate your intentions and
ideas. How has the investigation into artist models, art works influenced or impacted on your own
practice? Experiment and test a range of media.
Ensure that you use skills, processes and techniques to review and refine ideas while you reflect on
the acquisition of skills. Analyze your development at the time of idea generation. Reflect before the
moment has gone.
Ensure that ideas and intentions are linked to the development of skills and selected media.
Task 5, Going Further Building and applying
Generate your two art pieces but be sure to reflect on the journey of making art. What decisions
kept you on track or took you in a new direction? What struggles or challenges did you encounter?
What discoveries did you make along the way?

In the Process Journal you will be expected to create at least 10 pages covering the creative process
of brainstorming, investigation, testing, planning, and process documentation and evaluation for the
major art piece.



Pieter Hugo, "Messina/Musina Pieter and Maryna Vermeulen with Timana Phosiwa," 2006 http://www.leveledmag.com/2013/01/namsa-leuba-cocktail-series/


Christian Boltanski