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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.  \nThe 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  \nExploration and Discovery  \nEarly images of animals were often realised from description alone. Travel in those times was often restricted to explorers and scientists who were the only people to have seen the creatures first hand. Albrecht Dürer’s engraving of a rhinoceros isone of many classic examples .  \nOur senses are bombarded with fresh visual information by events such as holidays, social events, visiting distant relatives, sporting fixtures, trips to galleries and museums, and new friends. Even a simple motorway journey can take you through major contrasts in architecture and landscape .  \nExploration into the microscopic world can transport us to an alien environment of fantastic organisms with endless shapes and forms.  \nDissection of the human body reveals the incredible complexity of its mechanics and systems. Dr Gunther von Hagens’s Body Worlds exhibition displayed this fragile beauty.  \nDiscovering and reading a new book can create pictures of entire communities, environments and individuals in your imagination. It is interesting to see how the film version of a book often provokes a feeling of disappointment. This may be because it is the director’s own visualisation of characters and places, rather than your own .  \nHere are some more ideas that might help you begin your research:  \n● climbing, caving, bird-watching, canoeing, gliding, hiking  \n● experiments, dissection, dismantling, deconstructing  \n● exotic food, music, literature  \n● rock pools, areas underneath stones, dead wood and metal sheets  \n● zoological gardens, theme parks, fun fairs, museums, libraries  \n● scrap yards, exposed rock strata  \n● derelict gardens, cemeteries  \n● snorkelling and metal detecting  \n● magnifying lenses, telescopes, binoculars .  \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.  \nTheme for A level Personal Investigation: Exploration and Discovery  \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 – the exploration and discovery of the self has been a constant theme in modern art. Surrealists, such as Delvaux, De Chirico and Ernst, relied on the psychological speculations of Sigmund Freud, who sought to uncover the mysteries of the unconscious. Kandinsky aspired to unlock‘the spiritual’ in art by developing ways of working that were not directed by rational thought, proceeding instead from his‘inner self’. More recently, Jenny Saville’s work is a self-conscious exploration of her own persona. Leonora Carrington along with her contemporary Surrealists explored the subconscious world of dreams and psychological spaces. Marina Abramovic and Yoko Ono both‘live’ their own art, so that the artists and their work becom","cbCaitjti8tsATYS","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitjti8tsATYS","pdf",503811,"English","# Theme\n## Exploration and Discovery\n# Starting points\n## Fine Art - exploration of the self and psychological spaces\n## Fine Art - pop art and op art\n## Fine Art - migration narratives and trauma\n## Graphic Communication - stamps and first-day covers\n## Graphic Communication - typography and letterforms\n## Textile Design - tapestries and recorded adventures","[{\"question\":\"What is the recommended theme for the A level Personal Investigation?\",\"answer\":\"The recommended theme is “Exploration and Discovery”. 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