Gcse Art =/

[Gemma]

I have chosen art as my GCSE practical subject
But were not given a varied topics to choose from
I have a choice of:
~Bumps
~Layers
~Tangled
~Fragmented
~Bubbling
~Rippling
~Rusted
~Eroded
~Folds

Whatever one of these i pick i have to keep on for two years
and every single piece of art work i do has to revolve around my chosen topic

What will i pick
I have no ideas, what so ever


hope you can help
Or understand what I just said

 

[Felix]

Go with whatever, really. You can fit anything it any topic, seriously!

Layers has a lot of scope, just don't do a physically layered final piece, choose something obscure and reach it through lots of little sketches and explanations!

 

[MJ12]

Poop!

 

[MJ12]

Whatever one of these i pick i have to keep on for two years
and every single piece of art work i do has to revolve around my chosen topic

What will i pick
I have no ideas, what so ever


hope you can help
Or understand what I just said

Two years? Wtf? That sounds like it would destroy your learning ability, I've never heard of such a thing.

It sounds like picking what math you want to do for the next two years.
-Addition
-Subtraction
-Multiplication
-Division

What's the point of using only one for two years? I don't understand this at all, where do you come from? Is this a weird UK thing? Never heard of it in all my years of art.

 

[Felix]

I got A* at GCSE and never lost a mark throughout the whole of A level

 

[Crushenator 500]

Never heard of it in all my years of art.

Dude... big headed much? Please tell me you were joking when you wrote that :|

That said, yeah, GCSE art is pretty terrible... So is A-level art. They're more about bullshitting than actually creating in my experience. I've seen some people who are terrible at actually drawing/painting/etc come out with fantastic marks.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

I have chosen art as my GCSE practical subject
But were not given a varied topics to choose from
I have a choice of:
~Bumps
~Layers
~Tangled
~Fragmented
~Bubbling
~Rippling
~Rusted
~Eroded
~Folds

It changed since I last did it; you had a choice of 3D (Why they couldn't of said pottery, it would of saved a lot of embarressment), Graphical, and Paint

 

[ZachAttack]

It sounds like picking what math you want to do for the next two years.
-Addition
-Subtraction
-Multiplication
-Division

Those all fall under arithmetic!
T'would have made more sense if you said Calculus, Algebra and Geometry, and.. I dunno Finite?

But you can choose which one of those you'd like to study so I guess the logic fails anyway.

Sorry, I'm a math snob.

 

[Jimmeh]

Ouch.

Bubbling? Seriously - what the fewk? I can't imagine having to get two years of work out of that.

I remember being given like 4 or 5 different project titles to work on over the two years. They were all pretty dire, but at least it mixed things up a bit. For the final project we were given a list of pretty open-ended titles to go from, so it was more about doing whatever the hell you wanted and relating it back to your chosen title, no matter how far-fetched it might've been.

Out of those, I'd probably pick Fragmented and just do whatever I wanted. Then somehow try and blag that my project's focus is "fragmented" or something. That's what it comes down to really, blagging. Although they probably wouldn't let you get away with that...

 

[kineaesth]

Fragmented would fit me. Thus it should fit you. Do it.

Or layers.

 

[ChiliFan]

For what it's worth, I ended up dropping GCSE Art about half way through the second year. Total lack of motivation to do all that bullshit explaining how it relates to other artists and what your title means. Much more fun to just draw.

 

[Krynn72]

Dude... big headed much? Please tell me you were joking when you wrote that :|

I've never heard of it either. Sounds awful and pointless though, so it probably is just a UK thing.

 

[MJ12]

Dude... big headed much? Please tell me you were joking when you wrote that :|

What? Just saying that in all of the years I have taken art I have not heard of it once?

I didn't mean it in the way of sounding like I have taken a decades worth amount of art classes or something, just saying I never heard of it?
You need to chill.

 

[Gemma]

Im thinking layers
She said I could relate it to seasons
because you were heavier layers in winter than in summer etc
But how the hell do i relate seasons to layers for a project?


And yuhh im in the UK
But these topics are for my school only not all schools in the UK
just the north of Ireland
=/

 

[knut]

Put a fashion spin on it, perhaps design and make some clothing to cater for all four seasons, but in a new, unique (wacky? zainey? who knows?) way?

 

[Krynn72]

(wacky? zainey?

Dont ever use those words again. They are the worst words in the world. They are descriptors that describe nothing more than a extremely vague inclination away from the norm.

I hate you.


Love,
Krynn

 

[lefty]

Dont ever use those words again. They are the worst words in the world. They are descriptors that describe nothing more than a extremely vague inclination away from the norm.

I hate you.


Love,
Krynn

You know what word I hate? Delight. It gives me naseous little shivers. That word is like twelve ounces of phlem and sputum in the back of your throat, and it's somebody else's. That word is disgusting.

 

[knut]

Dont ever use those words again. They are the worst words in the world. They are descriptors that describe nothing more than a extremely vague inclination away from the norm.

I hate you.


Love,
Krynn

I dunno, I usually think straight to the words odd or weird or strange whenever I think of those words, likewise I do vice versa. I don't really give it a second thought, it's just something always in the back of my mind as words to bounce around. Not to say I use them all the time, but they fit right into what GCSE art is - a childish joke.

 

[Xendance]

I regret choosing Art now I did a trial exam and got an 'E' on it.

 

[Stormy]

I think this is terrible. It's great having a key word or topic for a small project over a month or 2 but to force it over two years is bad. I would imagen by the end students will begen to be very uninspired and bored of their chosen field.

I guess do what ever the hell you want then woffle bull shit to make it sound like it relates to your topic.

 

[Gemma]

I went for layers
I was thinking of trying to do something like this:
http://www.jamescohan.com/artists/beatriz-milhazes/
But it might be a bit hard
Looks awesome though