Year 9 Natural Forms boards

1. Natural Forms
Year 9

2. GCSE: Assessment Objectives
AO1: RESEARCH – IMAGES & ARTISTS
Develop your ideas through investigations informed by contextual and other
sources, demonstrating analytical and cultural understanding.
AO2: EXPERIMENTS WITH MEDIA
Refine your ideas through experimenting and selecting appropriate resources,
media, materials, techniques and processes.
AO3: IDEAS, OBSERVATIONAL DRAWINGS & EXPLANATIONS
Record ideas, observations and insights relevant to your intentions in visual
and/or other forms.
AO4: FINAL IDEA & FINAL PIECE, LINKS WITH ARTISTS
Present a personal, informed and meaningful response demonstrating
analytical and critical understanding, realising intentions and making
connections between visual or other elements.

3. •Natural forms are objects in nature in their
original form.
•Examples:-
What are Natural Forms?

4. What are Natural Forms?
•Natural forms are objects in nature in their
original form.
•Examples:-
•Leaves, flowers, pine cones, seaweed,
shells, bones, insects, stones, fossils,
crystals, feathers, birds, fish, animals – in
fact anything you can find in nature –
complete or part of it.

5. Some key words...
Composition
Form .
Pattern
Tone
Contrast
Texture
Nature

6. Natural Form Artist Boards
AO1
For your Year 9 project you are going to
be creating an Artist board researching
Artists that use Natural Forms in their
work.
AO2
You are also going to be experimenting
with different medias using pencil, paint
and print.

7. Natural Forms
BOARDS

8. Mono-chrome

The first Artist you need to research
should be an Artist that works
primarily in Mono-chrome. You are
going to create your own transcription
in addition to finding out facts and
adding your opinions on their work.

9. Karl Blossfeldt 1865-1932
•Karl Blossfeldt is best
known for his beautiful
photographs of plant
forms.
•Originally, the photographs
were intended to be used
as teaching aids and
making sculptures, but
became popular when a
selection of his
photographs were
published in the book
Urformen der Kunst
(Archetypes of Art) in
1928.

10. Plate # 56: Aspidium filix mas (magnified 4
times)Photogravure, printed in 1928.
Plate # 76: Eranthis cilicica (magnified 8
times)Photogravure, printed in 1928.
Karl Blossfeldt

11. Plate # 77: Cephalaria (magnified 10
times)Photogravure, printed in 1928.
Plate # 92: Acanthus mollis (magnified 4
times)Photogravure, printed in 1928.
Karl Blossfeldt

12. Photogravures Urformen der Kunst 1929
Karl Blossfeldt

13. Photogravures Urformen der Kunst 1929
Karl Blossfeldt

14. Edward Weston 1886-1958
Weston explored natural form through black and white photography.
Pepper, 1930negative, Cole Weston print
Shell, 1927 Vintage gelatin silver print

15. (to the right)
Carefully broken
pebblesscratched
white with another
stoneSt. Abbs,
Scotland1 June 1985
Andy Goldsworthy
Andy Goldsworthy
is a British artist
who works with
nature, natural
form and the
natural
environment to
make his
creations.
1956 - present

16. Peter Randall-Page is an extraordinary British sculptor and visual artist whose
connection to nature began in the Sussex countryside. For Randall-Page, organic
forms are places to begin, shapes that push the artist to explore his own response to
them.
Three Fruit , Kilkenny limestone, 1986
Peter Randall-Page 1954 - Present

17. Three Graces 1994 ,Etching on paper
Peter Randall-Page

18. Drawings for Overbecks, pen and ink, 1990
Peter Randall-Page

19. Painting
The second Artist you need to
research should be an Artist that
works primarily with paint. You are
going to create your own transcription
in addition to finding out facts and
adding your opinions on their work.

20. Georgia O’Keefe 1887-1986
•O’Keefe was an
American artist
who lived in the
arid Arizona
desert.
•She painted still
life natural forms
of objects found
around in her
environment.
Red Poppy, Oil Painting, 1927

21. •O’Keefe’s
paintings are
beautifully
contoured
forms,
realistically
painted but
using unusual
combinations
of objects.
•She expertly
painted subtle
tones and
colours.
Ram's Skull, Oil Painting, 1935
Georgia O’Keefe

22. Yayoi Kusama 1929 - present
•Kusama is a Japanese American artist who works
in a wide variety of media and techniques – prints,
sculptures and installations.
•Her starting point is often natural form.
PUMPKIN (TOTW) Acrylic on
canvas 2003

23. Raoul Dufy
Strauß Aronstab 1939
Dufy was a
French Fauvist
painter. He
developed a
colourful,
decorative style
that became
fashionable for
designs and
ceramics.
1877 - 1953

24. Paul Cezanne
Paul Cézanne was a French Post- Impressionist
painter.
1839 -1906
Still Life with Apples, Oil Painting 1890

25. Bouquet of Flowers in a White Vase, Oil Painting
1909
Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse was a French artist, known for his use of colour. He was a
draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter.
1869 - 1954

26. La Gerbe, one of Matisse's latest works
(1953).
Henri Matisse

27. "Irises” Oil
Painting
1889
Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work has far-
reaching influence on 20
th
Century art due to its vivid colours and emotional impact.
1953 - 1890

28. Flight of the Magnolia, Oil on Canvas, 1944
Paul Nash
Paul Nash was an English landscape
painter, surrealist and war artist. Here
is one of his ‘natural surrealism’
pieces inspired by found objects
1889 - 1846

29. Juan Cotan
Born in Orgaz, Spain.
He is a painter who is
considered one of the
pioneers of Baroque
realism in Spain. A
profoundly religious
man, he is best
known for his still
lifes, which in their
visual harmony and
illusion of depth
convey a feeling of
humility and mystic
spirituality.
Still Life with Dead Birds, Fruit and
Vegetables, Detail, 1602
1561 - 1627

30. Still life with Game Fowl,Vegetables and Fruit 1602
Juan Cotan

31. Still life of a tulip, a melon and flowers on
a ledge, Oil Painting
Rachel
Ruysch
1664 - 1750
Rachel Ruysch was a
Dutch artist who
specialized in still-life
paintings. She was
one of three
significant female
artists in Dutch
Golden Age painting.

32. Psalm 27: Hirst's butterfly and enamel
paint on canvas
Damien
Hirst
1965 to present
Hirst explores
the uncertainty
at the core of
human
experience;
love, life,
death, loyalty
and betrayal
through
unexpected
and
unconventional
media.

33. "Happy Head No 7,” gloss household paint on resin skull
and wooden base, 9 1/2 by 9 by 9 1/2 inches, 2007
Damien Hirst

34. 'Study of Roses', 1976 Acrylic on canvas
Patrick
Caulfield
1936 – 2005
Patrick Caulfield was an
English painter and
printmaker.
In the early 1960s
Caulfield’s painting was
characterised by flat
images and objects paired
with angular geometric
devices. He adopted the
technique of the sign
painter simplifying objects
to a basic black.

35. Print-making
The third Artist you need to research
should be an Artist that works
primarily with print. You are going to
create your own transcription in
addition to finding out facts and
adding your opinions on their work.

36. Patrick Caulfield
Fruit and Bowl, Print (Screen Print)
1979-1980
1936 – 2005
Patrick Caulfield was an
English painter and
printmaker.
In the early 1960s
Caulfield’s painting was
characterised by flat
images and objects paired
with angular geometric
devices. He adopted the
technique of the sign
painter simplifying objects
to a basic black.

37. Andy Warhol
"Flowers” - 1964 - 1970 printing
Serigraph
Warhol used bright flat colours in
his images. He changes the
colours to create his own
individual piece of Art work.
Andy Warhol, was an American
painter, printmaker and
filmmaker who was a leading
figure in the visual art
movement known as ‘Pop Art’
1928 – 1987

38. Flower For Tacoma DomeScreenprint on Lenox
Museum Board. 1982
Andy Warhol

39. Kiku, 1983
Andy Warhol

40. Pivoine, flowers, woodcut print, japanese, butterfly, 1800s, 1900s,
Katsushika Hokusai
1760 –1849
Hukusai was a Japanese painter and printmaker of the Edo period. He was one of
Japan’s leading experts on Chinese painting. He his best known for his woodblock print
series

41. The Great Wave Off Kanagawa From "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji";
1823-29, Color woodcut,
Katsushika Hokusai

42. Sky & Water I, woodcut, 1938
M.C Esher
Esher was a
Dutch graphic
artist. He is best
known for his
often
mathematically
inspired
woodcuts,
lithographs and
mezzotints.
1898 - 1972

43. 1966 Screenprint
Paul Morrison 1966 - present

44. Melanie Wickhan - present
Pears 9cm x 11cm
The Artist’s website….
http://www.melaniewickham.co.uk/inde
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