What inspires artist Nick Gentry? | Art and Design - Making Art Work

Suitable for teaching 14-16s. Artist Nick Gentry talks about what inspires his artwork and explains how his inspiration can often come from very mundane and everyday things. Subscribe for more Art and Design clips from BBC Teach on Thursdays when we have them in: http://bit.ly/BBCSubscribeTeach If you found this video helpful, give it a like. Share it with someone. Add the video to your own teaching playlists. Create an account, subscribe to the channel and create playlists for different age groups, sets and syllabuses. ===================== Artist Nick Gentry visits his local café to look for inspiration for new pieces. He talks about how mundane things can inspire people and explains how he is inspired by Leonardo da Vinci because he wasn’t just an artist, but a scientist too. Images of anatomical drawings are shown as he describes how Leonardo tried to find out what was going on inside us beneath the surface. Nick jots down ideas in his sketchbook and shows us images of his notes and drawings. This clip is from Making Art Work, a BBC 2 Learning Zone compilation of short films following six UK-based leading artists as they create new artwork from scratch. For more clips from Making Art Work: http://bit.ly/TeachMAW For our Art and Design playlist: http://bit.ly/TeachArtandDesign For Class Clips users, the original reference for the clip was p01z4gs1. ===================== Teaching Art and Design? This clip could be used to demonstrate how artists record ideas, make notes, annotations and rough drawings in a sketchbook at the start of the creative process. Encourage the students to take inspiration from Nick and find somewhere they could look for ideas. These clips will be relevant for teaching Art and Design at GCSE/KS4 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and National 4/5 or Higher in Scotland. The topics discussed will support OCR, Edexcel, AQA, WJEC GCSE in England and Wales, CCEA GCSE in Northern Ireland and SQA National 4/5 and Higher in Scotland. ===================== For more clips from other subjects at the BBC Teach YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/bbcteach More from BBC Learning Zone: http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone More resources from BBC Bitesize: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education ===================== Subscribe to create your own customised playlists, and get notified about our latest clips. As we have them, new videos will be uploaded on the following days: Mondays: Biology, Computer Science, Music, Religious Studies Tuesdays: Drama and Performance, English Language, Maths, Physical Education Wednesdays: Languages, Media Studies, Modern Studies and PSHE, Physics Thursdays: Art and Design, Chemistry, Geography, History Fridays: Business Studies, Design and Technology, English Literature