the Sensations exhibition. This led me to reflect on my experience of A-level Art as a whole. Particularly on how differently I looked at pieces through my physical and mental development in Art methods and styles. My approach has changed gradually. My method is to simply react to the subject I am drawing, giving it meaning through my own personal reaction to the subject. A-level Art has enabled me to look at art on a deeper level. From my own experience as a student and observing younger students I have noticed how they as I did, judge a piece of work merely on how good a likeness it is, no attention would be paid to the scale or composition. They tend to take things as face value and not read into the work. Throughout all the things that I have learnt as an art students I now cannot help looking

at a piece without finding things that give information on the meaning and point of the piece and someti

mes the mood or politics of the artist. I feel in the change from GCSE to Alevel my work has developed and so has my attitude. My work now involves reasoning and thinking behind it. I see my work as an extension of my identity. It is maybe my interpretation or reflection on the way in which I see things. My past experience of art as forced me to look at art in a different way. It has to make me react just as I react when creating a piece. I tend to look at the reasoning behind an artists work and I always ask myself why. Why certain images are included, why the images are structured and placed in the way in which they are, why the colours have been used in the way that they have and ultimately how all these factor accumulate to give the piece mood, message, tone and emotion. At first before visiting the exhibition I thought I would encounter a collection of superficial and pretentious pieces of art work. This alone shows how basic my attitude was. I found my mind was broadened into this area of art and the way in which the artist wanted the observer to think about and also

along with her 'Propped' position seeming and perhaps symbolically uncomfortable. Her style of painting being different with the image of the physical form of a women almost rebelling to the 'norms' of a male society. Physically clawing at herself, unhappy and positively uneasy with her situation. This piece I found to have a lot of emotion, perhaps a little more than the other two, almost a messy conclusion. My study of Saville has led me to believe that she can provide both her own reaction to society but also introduce a feminist process into the viewer. The fact that I can now study an artist or exhibitions work is in itself my conclusion. It is my experience of A level art that has matured my skills and enabled me to read into works to look for technical processes as well as the messages and emotions. I feel I have proven my ability to do this and am glad that I could.

displaying this particular painting was to cause public opposition and therefore media attention. This I believe was to raise awareness to the exhibition. This can be further justified by the collector of the art Charles Saatchi. An advertising genius a person well use to manipulating the use of media. In terms of sensations the Myra image has many issues surrounding it, e.g.: child abuser, murder etc., therefore it is this to blame, and not the actual painting. I would be doubtful that the same public reaction would be provoked if it was just a painting of a normal person

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