[Cherry Kisses]

(Original post by Ostentatious)
Oooh I was told about my A2 course for next year today, sounds exciting. Basically we're each using our own interests and the things that excite us and base our whole project on it entirely, without like structure you usually have in courses. No deadlines, it's good because of the freedom but it's also risky too? Has anyone done a course like this before?

yar Im doing a BTEC national diploma in art and design, its the equivalant to 2 A levels so its quite hard. Was going to do AS but they said it might be too basic for me. AS and BTEC are the same in the way that you are only given a very breif outlook on a project and are given the freedom to think about what you want to do so that your work will be origianal and individual. I like this because its designed to give you indipendance and the freedom to express yourself as and individual rather than at GCSE where everyone had to do basically the same thing. Its good training for the future, especially if you want to go on to degree level at uni.
It may seem difficult at first, but after a while you'll find that you do better when working on a project thats personal to you, thus gaining better grades.

the freedom is great good luck with your course

[Ostentatious]

(Original post by 4st_7lb)
Sorry I can't answer your question (I've just finished my GCSEs), but I've chosen Art as one of my AS Level choices, can I ask you what it's like? I work kind of slowly, will it disadvantage me too much? How many people on here have done/are doing Art AS?

Well it depends on the course your tutor has chosen, for my AS we had three seperate modules; The Expressive Unit, The Thematic Unit and the Exam. But as I said these choices may vary between colleges and sixthforms and years. As for the pace of the course you do need to put alot of your own time into the work because some thing's can be rushed (but that could have just been because my tutor structured it really badly). I found that working on my art at home was best for me but some people prefer to do it in free lessons, up to you...

[Ostentatious]

(Original post by ~cherrykisses~)
can i join? Art is my passion. I love it do i join here or find the thread in the society section?

You can find the thread in the Societies section (page 5 I think?).

[Ostentatious]

(Original post by ~cherrykisses~)
yar Im doing a BTEC national diploma in art and design, its the equivalant to 2 A levels so its quite hard. Was going to do AS but they said it might be too basic for me.

Great thanks for the advice. As you were saying about the As course, I agree it is basic but that was because they structured it into three seperate units, we didn't have much room for our own ideas because we were confined to certian titles and borders.

Thanks again.

[Amy]

ive canged the title and made it a sticky, hope you dont mind

[khil]

I wanna join!

[Ostentatious]

(Original post by Amy)
ive canged the title and made it a sticky, hope you dont mind

Sure, thanks. I was meaning to change that title...

Tah.

[seanaldo123]

So what artists are everyone into? I must say i am blown away by the works of Auerbach, giacometti and kossoff. One of my fav painters is max beckmann tho! his use composition on such a large scale is amazing, and his actual paint technique is really inspirational to me. I love how his paintings mean so much, you could study one of his paintings for hours. However im still finding new artists so my opinions are changing, there are too many to mention , bacon, freud.. What is everyone into??

[Lola_in_Slacks]

(Original post by seanaldo123)
So what artists are everyone into? I must say i am blown away by the works of Auerbach, giacometti and kossoff. One of my fav painters is max beckmann tho! his use composition on such a large scale is amazing, and his actual paint technique is really inspirational to me. I love how his paintings mean so much, you could study one of his paintings for hours. However im still finding new artists so my opinions are changing, there are too many to mention , bacon, freud.. What is everyone into??

I feel really uncultured right now. I'm mainly into the Art Nouveau artists but I also really like photographers like Diane Arbus and, mainly, Frank Sutcliffe (got into him on my holiday in Whitby) 'cos I have this weakness for sepia instead of the old black and white.

Anyone else?

[ems xxx]

(Original post by seanaldo123)
So what artists are everyone into? I must say i am blown away by the works of Auerbach, giacometti and kossoff. One of my fav painters is max beckmann tho! his use composition on such a large scale is amazing, and his actual paint technique is really inspirational to me. I love how his paintings mean so much, you could study one of his paintings for hours. However im still finding new artists so my opinions are changing, there are too many to mention , bacon, freud.. What is everyone into??

how come no ones posted here for sooooo long? have i missed something??? i've just applied to join

Auerbach and kossoff-they are amazing!!! i was researching john virtue over the summer for A2 Art, he was influenced by them both... anyway have you been to the Tate Print and Drawing rooms, you really should go. You get an empty room and a box of works by almost any famous artist you want, i saw both kossoffs and auerbachs. you can just flick through them. i loved it!!! sad i know but a highlight of my summer!!! yey!!!

[seanaldo123]

(Original post by ems xxx)
how come no ones posted here for sooooo long? have i missed something??? i've just applied to join

Auerbach and kossoff-they are amazing!!! i was researching john virtue over the summer for A2 Art, he was influenced by them both... anyway have you been to the Tate Print and Drawing rooms, you really should go. You get an empty room and a box of works by almost any famous artist you want, i saw both kossoffs and auerbachs. you can just flick through them. i loved it!!! sad i know but a highlight of my summer!!! yey!!!

havnt, but i think i will check it out. I just got back from NY where i saw some amazing work. Have u seen any work by max beckmann or otto dix?? amazing stuff live, u can look at their paintings for hours..the exhibition was called 'gliter and doom'. Just getting into the work by Stuart pearson wright also, hadnt seen his work before but really is incredible. People should use this thread to discuss artists and introduce people to new artists that you may not have heard of.

[thebadboy2k1]

i feel rly bad. u guys are way more into art than me

[saasmi]

i got excited when i saw this society.. but it's kinda detailed and all..
i just love to sketch and admire any kind of art work .. especially oil and abstart paintings!

[~Lc~]

I want to join I love art did O level, As level and now am currently doing IB in it...

And I read that you love splattering your emotions in paintings osetntatious, my theme in my IB art course is emotions

[~Lc~]

Why is the society so dead?! Art is supposed to be alive! I insist on bringing back the society to it's fullest potential! I mean look at the other societies on here! the boredom society is getting more replies than we are members? art lovers? where are you?

[Cocaine Socialist]

I was thinking of joining, but I'm having a bit of an existential crisis at the moment in regards to 'Art', so this'll have to wait. (I'm doing Art Foundation, by the way).

[~Lc~]

cool what's the crisis... might be able to help/advise/ agree with

[Cocaine Socialist]

(Original post by ~Lc~)
cool what's the crisis... might be able to help/advise/ agree with

Well, I have this horrible sinking feeling that Art is pointless, and that post-modernism has trivialised everything, and now there is nowhere else to go, and the artist's only possible purpose is to either paint pretty pictures to be hung on the walls of quiet seaside B&Bs, or wallow in the vaccousness of it all like that bastard Jeff Koons.

[~Lc~]

LOL! no ! don't let anyone hang ur pictures! they're urs.. they're ur creation! I never give my babies away! well I know the alternative is becoming a starving artist but so be it.
and to me painting is does not have a purpose... that is why art is so special! the only reason why I continued my art courses is because it's the only way I could reach perfection! think about it what is perfect in this world? your painting are perfect because you say they are, and no one can argue with that! why did you take an art major anyway? isn't it because you want a different way of life than your everyday engineer and doctor? your unique and that is what you should be proud of when you're doing art...

and dunno who jeff koons is .. I'll google:P
you're comparing yourself to a contemporary? omg! I hate them.. ALL OF THEM! I'm a realist fan sorry... before I end up offending you what type of art do you do?

[Cocaine Socialist]

(Original post by ~Lc~)
LOL! no ! don't let anyone hang ur pictures! they're urs.. they're ur creation! I never give my babies away! well I know the alternative is becoming a starving artist but so be it.
and to me painting is does not have a purpose... that is why art is so special! the only reason why I continued my art courses is because it's the only way I could reach perfection! think about it what is perfect in this world? your painting are perfect because you say they are, and no one can argue with that! why did you take an art major anyway? isn't it because you want a different way of life than your everyday engineer and doctor? your unique and that is what you should be proud of when you're doing art...

I don't think anything I've done is perfect - in fact I hardly value it all. The problem is it isn'tunique, it has all been done. And self-loathing and angst are hardly original either, so basically I'm ****ed.

and dunno who jeff koons is .. I'll google:P
you're comparing yourself to a contemporary? omg! I hate them.. ALL OF THEM! I'm a realist fan sorry... before I end up offending you what type of art do you do?

Haha, um...tomorrow I'm going to tie some shoes together with barbed wire and cover them in mud...I think I'll leave it at that.