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It also suggests starting points relevant to each of the endorsed titles, although students can interpret the theme according to their own interests and research, or the resources available. Your students’ approach to the personal study can be as individual and creative as their own practical work. The theme and starting points within this document are suggestions and are not intended to be prescriptive. You are free to devise any project, task or theme for the Personal Investigation .  \nTheme  \nPassions and Obsessions  \nPeople, projects, objects or places can all become focal points of obsession or passion . The driving force behind every artist stems from their own personal passion or fixation . The galleries of any museum or public collection display a bewildering assortment of personal objects that represent past or present human obsessions.  \nThe study and exploration of the human figure has obsessed may artists over many centuries. The sculptor Alberto Giacometti lived in his workshop towards the end of his life, totally absorbed in his figurative explorations and rejecting the outside world. The practice of Sculptors Phyllida Barlow, Elisabeth Frink and Barbara Hepworth demonstrate focus and life-long dedication to their ideas. Artists such as Caravaggio, Rodin, Wyeth, Augustus John, Salvador Dali, Gwen John, Jenny Saville, Rose Wylie, Kehinde Wiley,and Paula Modersohn-Becker have produced intense paintings inspired by their close relationships with their models.  \nA passion for nature and organic forms inspires many architects and designers who fully exploit the flexibility of modern construction materials to mimic natural forms . The Beijing National Stadium (the‘Bird’s Nest’), built for the 2008 Olympics, is a classic example of this. The architect Zaha Hadid used inspiration from natural form for the London Olympic park. Alexander Calder and Jean Tinguely were fascinated by kinetics throughout their lives, producing sculptures that arc gracefully through the air or that intentionally rattled themselves to destruction . Turner prize winner Jesse Darling and Ro Robertson use sculptural materials to provoke discussion and subvert our preconceptions around materials and meaning.  \nHere are some more ideas that might help you begin your research:  \n● relationships, families, weddings, christenings  \n● sadness, joy, disappointment, kleptomania, paranoia  \n● collections, money, poverty, recycling, charity  \n● politics, power, religion, trust, war  \n● ambition, fame, celebrity, television  \n● birth, presents, carnivals, sport, holidays, travel  \n● food, security, hygiene  \n● convents and monasteries .  \nIf possible, begin your work on the theme by recording from direct observation and experience . Try to select sources which are unusual or challenging, sources which will provide you with a variety of visual stimuli from which you can develop your work.  \n©Pearson Education Ltd 2024 1  \nTheme for A level Personal Investigation: Passions and Obsessions  \nStarting points  \nThe starting points below may help you form ideas. You can follow them closely, use them as a source of information, or produce your own individual response to the theme .  \n● Fine Art –love or obsession has inspired many artists, such as Philemona Williamson, Pierre Bonnard, Andrew Wyeth, Maggi Hambling, Vilhelm Hammershoi and Edward Hopper. Anthony Green shows his love for his family, home and memories in his obsessive depiction of minute details of domesticity. 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