Practice exam. Fine Art. A2 level. July 2005

Students at William de Ferrers School did a 15 hour, A2 level, practice exam in July 2005 (after completing their AS level exams).

For this, they studied the working methods of one of the following artists, who worked with the human figure in a variety of contexts:

• Gilbert And George.
• Henri Mattise.
• Xenia Hausner.
• George Segal.

Coursework titles. Fine Art. A2 level. 2005-06

Students’ coursework at A2 level (Year 13) and preparation for their mock exam in January 2006 was based on their choice of the following titles, or contextual questions:

• Doppelganger.
• Colossus.
• Memento mori.
• Kitsch bitch.
• Seduction.
• Resurrection.
• Mellifluence.
• Heteromorphic.

• Dorothea Tanning.

  The paintings of Dorothea Tanning are often a proliferation of ghostly presences, vestiges and rememberances.

  "My dreams are studded with objects that have no relation to anything in the dictionary. Words are powerless to describe a dream."

• George Grosz.

  In 1918, George Grosz painted a "billious protest against the world of mutual destruction where death triumphs over a street filled with a teeming throng of possessed human animals."

  It is entitled ‘Dedicated to Oskar Panizza’ and is sometimes referred to as ‘Metropolis’ (‘Bitter Truth’ by Richard Cork).

• Carrie Mae Weems.

  In her self-portrait ‘Mirror Mirror,’ Carrie Mae Weems combines issues of gender, race, vanity and narcissism. Its forthright inscription carries as much weight as the image:

  "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the finest of them all?" The mirror says, "Snow White you black bitch. And don’t you forget it."