Manipulating photographs | Art and design | Quizalize & Oak National Academy

Starter quiz

How does manipulating a drawing help refine your final artwork in GCSE Art?
- It focuses only on one method.
- It helps improve, refine and develop technical skills and artistic decisions. ✓
- It confuses the viewer.
- It slows down the process.
Understanding your narrative can be helpful because it allows you to reflect on how to ______ your message.
- 'refine' ✓
Match the techniques to demonstrate layering in art.
- layering with paper
  
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  overlapping torn or cut pieces to build texture and detail ✓
- layering with background surface
  
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  uses textured or prepared surfaces to affect layers built on top ✓
- layering with colour
  
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  adds depth using transparent or opaque colours ✓
Why is manipulating drawings and artwork an important way to develop an artist's work?
- Manipulating makes their work harder to understand.
- Manipulating helps them to copy other artists' styles.
- Manipulating can improve and develop work by sparking new ideas and approaches. ✓
In art and design, to ______ means to change or alter something to create a new effect, meaning, or form.
- 'transform' ✓
What does "develop" mean in art?
- to finalise the artwork without changes
- to gradually improve and refine ideas or techniques ✓
- to replicate an existing artwork exactly

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Key learning points

Old photos can be repurposed to create interesting artworks that are relevant to today.
Artists use photos to express ideas about identity and contemporary society.
Stitching into photos and manipulating them can add another layer of meaning.

Common misconception

Distorting a photograph with manipulation techniques only damages it.

In art, photos are not just static records of the past; they are versatile tools that can be reinterpreted and manipulated to express new ideas and perspectives.

Keywords

Distort - to change something from its original shape or appearance
Destroy - to completely break or ruin something so that it cannot be used or fixed
Fragmentation - taking an image or object and dividing it up, so that the whole thing is not clear or complete