EXAM PAPER N°2 / VISUAL ARTS ( V.

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Level : MYP1
Academic year : 2021 - 2022

I. Answer the folowing questions

1. What is recycled art?
 what is called op art?
2.
3. Remind the process to make an optical art drawing.

4. Who is Georgia O’keefe ? what made her to famous?

5. What are the elements of art used to make her drawing? What technique
did she use ?

II.Read the folowing texts and anwser the questions.

Text 1
ABIDJAN, Aug 13 (Reuters) - As Ivorian artist Aristide Kouame combs the beach with a big
trash bag to gather discarded flip-flops and other footwear, he is aware that other beachgoers
probably take him for a desperate street trader or possibly a madman.
Little do they know that Kouame, 26, transforms the flotsam into artworks valued at up to
$1,000 by cutting the rubber and plastic soles into pieces that he assembles into large collages.
"This is the rubbish people have thrown into the sea and the sea brings it back to us because
it doesn't want it," he said on a beach in Abidjan, Ivory Coast's commercial capital."I make art
from used shoes... It's a way to give life to the objects that litter the beaches." Sitting on the
floor of a narrow alley, Kouame carves shapes, letters and faces into the rubber soles of what
he has salvaged from the beach. He makes his own paint by grinding what scraps remain into
piles of technicolour pigment. His technique is both inexpensive and ecologically aware.
In just a few years, Kouame's original methods have caught the attention of Ivory Coast's art
establishment and his works have hung in galleries at home and abroad.
They range from large portraits of civil rights and political leaders such as Nelson Mandela to
abstracts evoking societal ills including climate change, COVID-19 and wealth inequality.
On a recent afternoon in a chic neighbourhood in southern Abidjan, several of Kouame's works
hung in a gallery frequented by foreign art collectors.
Its director enthusiastically ushered patrons towards three large collages, each consisting of
around 140 miniature portraits that Kouame carved from discarded flip-flops.
Around 13 million tonnes of plastic waste are dumped into the world's oceans each year,
according to the United Nations. Two of Africa's worst culprits, Ghana and Nigeria, share the
same Atlantic coastline as the beach Kouame combs for supplies.
"My goal is to get people to question the issue of their environment, in order to create a better
life," Kouame said, solemnly looking back toward the plastic faces.

1/2 GOOD LUCK !!!

 Level : MYP1
Academic year : 2021 - 2022

Text 2
Born 1988 in Katiola, Côte d'Ivoire
He lives and works in Bingerville, Côte d'Ivoire. After several years as a traditional portraitist,
Saint Etienne Yeanzi redefined his relationship with portraiture. Breaking from conventional art
practices, he now explores unique techniques consisting of melting wasted plastic materials –
collected from the streets of Abidjan – on paper or canvas. He reveals the beauty and
aestheticism of the individual through the ashes of wasted trash, while at the same time
questioning the vast amounts of waste suffocating society.
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There is no denying that Yeanzi was impacted by the Ivorian Civil War that started in 2011,
a brutal tragedy that shook the country. Despite this, his art is relentlessly optimistic.
His works do not only aim to recount trauma and violence of the past but instead strive to show
the authentic spirit of Ivorians. Yeanzi studied painting and photography at the Ecole des Beaux
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of his works entered the collection of the Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary
Art, Rabat. His unique technique involves collecting plastic materials from the streets of Abidjan
and melting them on paper or canvas.

1. After reading the 2 articles , make a comparative study from those two ivorian
artists, what are the differences in their style?

2.What inspired those two artists to use a such technique?

3. Write your own comment to express yourself about the benefits of these styles
for our country , does it really contribute to solve our environmental issues ?
( Minimum 8 lines and maximum 15 lines )

Drawing activity (Pratical)

Make a drawing using the op art technique learnt in class. decorate it with
complementary colors .

2/2 GOOD LUCK !!!