The document provides information on key terms related to art - flaws, perfection, ideals, and compromises. It suggests starting points for exploring these terms, including geological features, genetic modification, and politics. The document recommends exploring contextual references, including the work of artists who have addressed flaws, perfection, ideals, or compromises. Suggestions are provided for beginning the exam project, such as creating a Pinterest board, spider diagram, or mood board to develop ideas related to the selected theme.

2. There are many different
meanings for these words
and how they can be
interpreted in Art.

3. Flaws
Noun
A feature that mars the perfection of something; defect; fault:
beauty without flaw; the flaws in our plan.
A defect impairing legal soundness or validity.
A crack, break, breach, or rent.
.
Verb
(used with object)
to produce a flaw in.
(used without object)
to contract a flaw; become cracked or defective.

4. Perfection
Noun
The state or quality of being or becoming perfect
The highest degree of proficiency, skill, or excellence, as in some
art.
A quality, trait, or feature of the highest degree of excellence.
The highest or most nearly perfect degree of a quality or trait
The act or fact of perfecting

5. Ideals
Noun
A conception of something in its perfection.
A person or thing conceived as embodying such a conception or conforming to such a
standard, and taken as a model for imitation:
An ultimate object or aim of endeavor, especially one of high or noble character:
Something that exists only in the imagination:
To achieve the ideal is almost hopeless.
Adjective
conceived as constituting a standard of perfection or excellence:
ideal beauty.
regarded as perfect of its kind:
an ideal spot for a home.
existing only in the imagination; not real or actual:
Nature is real; beauty is ideal.
advantageous; excellent; best:

6. Compromises
Noun
A settlement of differences by mutual concessions; an agreement reached
by adjustment of conflicting or opposing claims, principles, etc.
The result of such a settlement.
Something intermediate between different things:
An endangering, especially of reputation; exposure to danger, suspicion,
etc.:
Verb
To settle by a compromise.
To expose or make vulnerable to danger, suspicion, scandal, etc.;
jeopardize:
To bind by bargain or agreement.

7. EXAM =
40%

8. Everybody knows... the fourEverybody knows... the four
AOsAOs
For the exam you have to show evidence of:
ALL 4 of the AOs (Assessment Objectives)
AO1: Looking at other artists
AO2: Experimenting with media
AO3: Recording your ideas
AO4: Making a final piece

9. It is important that you begin working
on the EXAM Paper straight away.
START TODAY!
Exam dates….
14th
, 15th
and 18th
May

10. Where to begin?Where to begin?

11. Remember ….
The theme is merely a
starting point to inspire
you.
Feel free to take the
project in any direction
that you wish, provided
that you can clearly
justify and explain how
the theme has inspired
your thoughts and ideas.

12. Geological faults, gemstone inclusions...
Forest fires, landslips, quarries, gorges,
ruins, urban decay...
Stains, cracks, blots, accidents, spills, rips,
patches...
Make-up, disguises, masks, clothing,
artificial fur, plastic surgery...
Politics, deceit, trickery, concealment...
Selective breeding, genetic modification,
cloning...
Shows, competition, pageants...
Mutation, bacteria, viruses, scars...
Families, relationships, communities..
A Few Ideas…

13. FLAWS
PERFECTION
IDEALS
COMPROMISES
You must begin by exploring all the themes
below. You then may narrow your ideas
down by choosing to focus on just some or
one of the words.

14. Contextual references
The artists on the next few pages
are suggestions to help you think
about possible ideas. You may
already have ideas of your own.
Keep an open mind at this point...
There is also a Beaumont Pinterest
Album of Artists and ideas to
support you with your project

15. FLAWSFLAWS

16. Seth Clark
Abandoned, mixed media drawings.
Pittsburgh.

17. Kimberly Kersey Asbury
About the Landscape Series: Powered
Pigment, Wax, Paint, Thread, Stuffing on
Canvas, Paper, and/or Fabric. The
landscapes along with the hand-stitched
artist books are inspired by William Turner’s
watercolor sketchbooks.

18. Martha Macha

19. Jelle Martens
Martens work combines strong graphic blocks of
colour woven together with saturated grainy
photography to create dynamic visual palettes.
Marten is a Belgian Artist,
Photographer and Graphic Designer

20. series of photographs / rotting fruitPeter Lippmann

21. Barbara Kruger

22. Gillian Lambert
Gillian Lambert Drawings from a
series called "Self Deception"

23. For Hegarty, the joy of her work lies in its
destruction rather than its making.
Centering her practice on the politics of the
American myth, Hegarty’s canvases and
sculptures replicate emblems of frontier
ethos - colonial furniture, antique
dishware, and heroic paintings of
landscapes and national figures only to
demolish them by devices associated with
their historical significance.
Valerie Hegarty

24. Lucian Freud

25. Ian Murphy

26. Jean-Michel Basquiat

27. “You are the Weather”
Roni Horn

28. Banksy

29. Tip Toland

30. PerfectionPerfection
++
IdealsIdeals

31. Gerhard Richter

32. Alfred creates collages, paintings, and
digital animations.Brian Alfred

33. Damien Hirst

34. Sophie Kahn

35. Irving Penn
Penn was an American photographer
known for his fashion photography,
portraits, and still lives. Penn's career
included work at Vogue magazine,
and independent advertising work

36. Stephen Wiltshire

37. Anne Ten Donkelaar
Donkelaar lays pressed wildflowers, dried
stems, and paper cutouts on top of tiny
little pins to create the most spectacular
three dimensional collages

38. Gabi Trinkaus

39. Johannes Vermeer

40. Mueck's sculptures faithfully
reproduce the minute detail of the
human body, but play with scale to
produce disconcertingly jarring visual
images.
Ron Mueck

41. Ana Strumpf

42. Antony Gormley

43. Anna TormaAnna Torma

44. Gottfried HelnweinGottfried Helnwein

45. LucyndaLuLucyndaLu

46. CompromisesCompromises

47. Colin Chillag’s paintings show the process
of painting and how the build up and
process of making unfold in a work.
Colin Chillag

48. Stephen Gill

49. Damien Hirst

50. Tony Cragg

51. Richard Billingham

52. Sherman’s photographs are portraits of
herself in various scenarios that parody
stereotypes of women. A panoply of
characters and settings are drawn from
sources of popular culture, old movies,
television soaps and pulp fiction.
Cindy Sherman

53. Dorothea Lange

54. Yukinori Yanagi's work explores
themes relating to his position as a
Japanese artist living and working in
an international context, as well as
broader issues about identity within
social or national constructs.
Yukinori YanagiYukinori Yanagi

55. Create a Pinterest board
and start pinning images
relating to your exam title
Create a broad A2 spider
diagram
Create an A2 mood board
on the theme you want to
focus on
This week….