Surfaces for Art GCSE

Surfaces for Art GCSE

1. Reflective surfaces

   • glass and mirrors, tile, windows, CD/DVDs
     • fragmented, concave or convex, broken, distorted
   • metals
     • kitchen implements, vehicle bumpers, buildings
       • Labour & Wait, Shoreditch http://assets.allitemsloaded.com/files/1035/original/3N1A6761.jpg?1375223968
     • silver, gold, titanium, copper
   • water, lakes, puddles, ponds, rain, rivers, ice, the sea
   • refractive, crystals, prisms
   • scales

2. Decaying, weathered, textured surfaces

   • Decay in the city
     • empty buildings, torn posters, street rubbish
     • abandoned buildings, outhouses, factories, barns, sheds, greenhouses
     • burnt out buildings, ruins, scrapyards, charred remains, twisted/rusting metal
     • ecological succession in cities
   • Erosion by water, wind or sea
     • beaches, stones, shells, cliffs, detritus, sand
     • landscape shaped and formed by the elements
       • floods and droughts
       • mountains, hills, farmland, waterfalls, rivers

3. Surface tension

   • broken by swimmer, unbroken by things like pond skaters, water droplets
   • high wire, guitar strings, bungee
   • relationships, families, individuals, opposing groups
   • Reasons
     • Emotions create surface tension through worry, grief or disappointment. World events creat surface tension between individuals and groups/

4. Broken or contrasting surfaces

   • torn, tattered, ripped, folded, pleated, crushed
     • https://flextiles.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/pleated-printing-stitched3.jpg http://www.tech-lovers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/burgandy-crushed-velvet.jpghttp://publicphoto.org/pics/2011/10/22/Crushed-Car_Road-Traffic-Accident__63786-1024x682.jpg
   • cut, slashed, burst, revealing inner contents
   • cracked paint, revealing layers of colour, metal, wood and plastic
   • tattooed and pierced body surfaces
   • natural and man-made surfaces juxtaposed, surfaces intertwined, plant forms, creepers, ivy, steel, glass, wood, metal, stone
     • https://www.flickr.com/photos/traveller2020/3081840897/

5. Beneath the surface

   • strata formations, fissures and caverns
   • body
     • mind
       • conscious, subconscious
   • underground rivers and lakes, forest canopies, jungles, burrows of animals

6. Patterned surfaces

   • regular, relief, random
   • natural pattern
   • surface decoration, irregular, linear, geometrical
   • optical illusions, anamorphous, interlocking patterns, mosaics

7. Common surfaces

   • fur, feathers, animal materials
   • rock, dust, grit, fibre, rope
   • concrete, tarmac, polystyrene, plastics
   • woven, denim, sacking, wool, cotton, canvas