Homework 5-2-2013

Pictures in this blog post are not my own, they are pictures of magnificent art works by artists mentioned and credited in the post below.
Investigate several Australian desert landscape art works.

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#1 Gorge Landscape, 1981, Fred Williams, Oil on Canvas
#2 Drifting Smoke, 1981, Fred Williams, Oil on Canvas
#3 Upway Landscape, 1981, Fred Williams, Oil on Canvas
#4 Dry Creek Bed, Werribee Gorge I, 1977, Fred Williams, Oil on Canvas

The reason so many of my choices are done by Fred Williams, is mainly due to the fact that I willl have to write an essay about him later on, and, whilst doing preliminary research, stumbled across additional paintings to the one mentioned in class. They looked extremely abstract, something I thoroughly enjoy (mainly due to painting nonsese ;)), but still envision the typical Australian landscape.

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The red earth, reminding me of sunburnt skin.....
I mightn have mentioned to my eight year-old sister the reason for the red earth was that the earth had forgotten smearing on sun-cream, she then insisted on mentioning that the Earth up in Norway wore large amounts of suncream (snow)..............

Back to the homework,

#5 Australian Rock Lily, c. 1933, Margaret Preston, Hand-Coloured Woodcut on Paper.
#6 Rock in Roper River Valley, 1953, Margaret Preston,
#7 Flying over the Shoalhaven River, c. 1942, Margaret Preston, Oil on Canvas
#8 Aboriginal Landscape, 1941, Margaret Preston, Oil on Canvas

Margaret Preston was also mentioned by Miz Monty, and although she is most commonly known for her printing, also has some oil canvas paintings.

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#9 Pilbara Gorge, n/a, Robert Juniper, Oil & Acrylic & Mineral Sand on Belgian Linen.
#10 The Pub on the North Road, n/a, Robert Juniper, Oil and Acrylic and Mineral Sand on Belgian Linen.


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Margaret Preston
Robert Juniper

Visual Art - Unit Outline

Alright. School's officially started here down-under, and guess what? I have ART on my first day. Yup, single lesson 5th period, with dear miz Monty.

Curriculum Focus

The aim of this semester is to develop art works that reflect personal ideas in two and three-dimentional art. Your creative work will be enhanced through understanding of the basic Art Elements and Art Principles. Wyou will be encouraged to explore and interpret many aspect of these in bout your practical and written assignments, learning skills in visual analysis to understand distinctive qualities in art works and how these ideas may be translated in your own studio practice.

Unit Aims:

Upon succesful completion of this unit you will be able to:

• Make and present art works that explore themes, issues and ideas.
• Analyse and interpret the aesthetic qualities of art works.
• Understand studio practice and consideration when displaying works
• Incorporate and combine new technologies in the art making process.

Assesment

Assesment tasks, both written and practical, are due in on the date advised. It is your resposibility to get the work in. You may seek an extension if you have an appropriate reason, however, it MUST be prior to the due day. Late submission will incur a penalty on your marks and will be noted on your reports.


CAPTURING THE DESSERT DESERT.

 You are required to investigate a rande of works by Australia landscape painters to inform the series of landscape studies for the development of your own personal response. We will follow the Design Process; researching for ideas and inspiration,  drawing inspiration from other Australian artists, generate and develop ideas by sourcing imagery from direct observation (including sketching, photographying and collecting materials), and Irefine Ithese ideas, materials, techniques in the studio to present a truly authentic representation of your experiences.

Some possible contemporary australia Landscape artists may include:

• Elizabeth Cummings
• Luke Sciberras
• Euan Maclead
• Steve Lopes
• Peter Sharo
• Piers Baterman
• Carole Foster
• Margaret Preston
• Russel Drusdale
• John Olsen
• Guy Warren
• George Blanchflower
• Arthur Boyd
• Robert Juniper
• Tom Goulder
• Stewart westle
• Maxwell Wilkes
• Fred Williams
• ... and Aboriginal Artists: Pansy Hicks, Alice Guiness, Violet Samson, Tracey Jones, Loreen Sampson, Yvonne Williams

WILL BE CONTINUED

 

 

 

 

 

Analysation/Inspiration TIME Unit

The piece of art that I'm analysing/ that was my inspiration is the painting "Time Loop" by Blanka Ciok.

I believe this clock shows the background body and the clock face as to entirely different entities. The background is a rough texture; with patches and smudges, darker color, earthy and chaos. Whilst in comparison the clock face has elegant numeral; a smooth border, organized and still in the same borders.

It also went with my ideology of time being a circle; neverending. The time that has past has left the painting; the time that is still to come is far away in the yet uknown and still unsee-able future, but you know it's there. You know time will continue.

The aforementioned rough texture'd background fit perfectly with my own painting quote, "times are rough". However, this artist decided to make the clock face smooth an elegant whilst I made the whole clock rough.

Along with that the numerals are, in my opinion, a bit of a mixture of both Roman Numerals and the Normal Number system; therefore a bit unbiased. If clock can be unbiased.

Image

Excuse the background that is my jeans covered legs.

Update Nr. 2. Time Unit

If gotten the first round of feedback from my art teacher; he thinks it would be a great idea to fill the crack of the numbers and letters with a color; so that they stand out even more. I was thinking about the color gold; as to me, that color represent cleanliness and greatness, almost holy; which when filled roughly into the cracks of the totally unsmooth letters and numbers would show just how rough times are.

How even the gold and holy isn't as smooth and organized as we think it is.

Then there's the fact of supporting the clock.... yeah... don't think so. I think my clock is alright as it is; it's supposed to be wonky and weird and stuff.

Update on Time Unit

We've recently been to Spain for a week-long class trip; there I saw a clock with half of the number written in roman numerals and the other half in usual numerals, (the computer ones, I don't know what they're called).

Then another class was working with lino cut; therefore I came up with the idea of making a lino cut. The clock face would be the dark grey color of the lino cut material; I'll cut out the numbers. 12 1 2 6 7 8 in roman numerals and 3 4 5 9 10 11 in usual numerals. Then the body of the clock; the rest of the lino cut rectangle. Will be unevenly covered in patches, squared and triangles. Then in the two largest; inscribe the quote, "TIMES ARE ROUGH".

Because of the smaller issues the world is now facing; or rather the issues the world has been facing for a long time but that I just now have been made aware of.

Initial Ideas.

When presented with the idea of being able to focus an artwork on the prospect of time; it got me hooked.

"Time is running out!"
"If I could fall into the sky, do you think time would pass me by?"
"History repeats itself."
"Life is a never-ending circle of time."

These quotes were just some of the ideas that I got; some of them are well known quotes, others are pieces of lyrics.

You can say I was a bit bummed out when we were told that the artwork had to be a clock; a clockwork with face, handles and a body. All coming together to your idea of time.

The first ideas I had was

•  a spiral; which would have given me a huge load of technical difficulties as to how to make the hands go smaller and smaller as they came closer to the center. Then there was the issue of not really finding appropriate numerals.
• spider web; a clock; quite old and no longer functioning, covered in spider webs to show that we've stopped moving. To bring across my thought about the human race no longer developing. Yes, we're constantly creating new things; but our mentalities are still the same as back then. We've created a electric car prototype that could be mass-produced, but we wont start using it; mostly because people are to greedy and as long as oil consuming cars are used, countries with oil are still in power. A power they don't want to use. All that would be brought across in one clock.
• hourglass; an hourglass filled with sand; and a small clock swimming on the surface of the sand. Simply because I think it would be awesome. However; my time would limit me and it would be rushed.
• clock; a normal clock with roman numerals

I'll spend some time thinking about it.