Year 10

The Liminal and the Landscape

TASK SHEET ~ liminal.doc

 

 Lloyd Rees                                                                                    Brett Whiteley

  

                                         

  TERM 1 TASK SHEET:  Serendipity Making Task 1.doc

 

  TERM 2

  Making TASK SHEET:  O8 Vanitas Combines.doc

  INSPIRATIONAL:         vanitas images.doc

  MORE INSPIRATION:        http://www.vmfa.state.va.us/vanitas.html

 

  Appraising TASK SHEET Part 1 - Test Preparation : 10 Appraising Part 1.doc

  Research Sheet: appraisal 1 RESEARCH worksheet[1].doc

  Learn these terms for the Test in Test Block

art elements & principles.doc

HELP SHEET + VOCABULARY - : help sheet vocab etc.doc

 

   This is a RESOURCE LINK FOR APPRAISING: Appraising Process.doc

   This explains the APPRAISING INQUIRY rationale : Appraising Inquiry Based Approach.doc

   JAMES GUPPY:                 http://www.nrg.com.au/~jamesguppy/

 

 

 

“Vanitas” is a Latin word used since the Renaissance to describe the transitory nature of life. The term characterizes the appreciation of life’s pleasures and accomplishments joined with the awareness of their inevitable loss, according to John B. Ravenal, curator of art after 1900 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and organizer of the exhibition. “This theme has long been the inspiration for some of the Western civilization’s most significant works of art and literature. It is especially apparent in 17th-century Dutch still lifes, with their abundant flowers, overripe fruits, snuffed candles, skulls and timepieces,” he explains.

 

         

 

Term 2:Contemporary Vanitas

 

What is the Vanitas Genre ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanitas

 

VARIOUS INTERPRETATIONS OF THE VANITAS TRADITION ~ LOOK FOR MORE EXAMPLES FOR YOUR OWN RESEARCH - INCLUDE ON YOUR BLOG

 

Willem Claesz Heda (1594-1680/82)	Shaun Gladwell	James Guppy	Ritchie L. Roberts
Traditional	2005	1990s	digitally manipulated 3D modelling

 

Vanitas Painting is a form of Still Life Painting

Still Life Painting is the depiction of inanimate objects for the sake of their qualities of form, colour, texture, and composition. Although decorative

fresco murals and mosaics with still-life subjects occasionally appeared prior to the 15th century, it was not until the Renaissance that still life emerged as an independent painting genre.

 

 

Media

You will be painting on Canvas using Acrylic and Oil Paint

Ensure that you have a palette, 3 brushes (small and large philbert tipped brush and small red handled brush) a painting cloth and your visual diary for each lesson.

 

For Developmental work, see the task sheet

 

Painting Process

1. You will begin by painting the ground of the painting either in a warm or cool colour depending on the atmosphere you wish to create in your painting.

2. The composition will be developed by creating a collage from an existing painting and your own photographs and found images

Y3. our composition is then gridded and the canvas gridded to the same proportions and the image copied from one to the other. Learn more about the GRID

and links between Maths and Art

 

See this (limited but visually informative) video to understand gridding - http://www.paintbygrids.com/

 

 

10 tips for acrylic painting ~ http://painting.about.com/od/acrylicpainting/a/10tips_acrylics.htm

 

 

10 tips for oil painting ~ http://painting.about.com/cs/oils/a/tips_oils.htm

Writing Task -

Vocabularly and Appraising Link

 

art elements and principles.doc

 

          

Deepening your Blogging Experience ...

Complete before due date for Serendipity ... coming up very quickly!!!

1.  On your blog, reflect upon the processes we have explored so far, eg the ink washes and SERENDIPITOUS  application - comment on the ways you have chosen to work with the materials to refine your works.

2.  Research Mandalas (see below)  and find other examples of both traditional and more contemporary mandalas to put on your blog eg   and here

 

3.  Ensure you have answered the questions on Baraka and completed the graph. Reflect on the social and ethical issues raised for you, by Baraka, and comment on these.

4.  Reflect on Andy Goldsworthy and the shapes and forms he creates. WHY does Goldsworthy work with these forms, how do they relate to nature etc. Perhaps you can find video clips  about Baraka and Goldsworthy through iGoogle videos  etc - use Youtube for homework if you can't access iGoogle at school.

5.  Read through the section below for Semester 1 and ensure you have considered all aspects of the task.

 

 

 

Semester 1 Term 1

Serendipity ~ Serendipity Making Task 1.doc

 

Term 1 is in two parts which link. The intention of the unit is to bring together several aspects of the artmaking process to help you understand the balance between expression and intentional arrangement, thinking and feeling, reason and intuition ...

The Happy Accident ~ part 1, ink painting and chance happenings as a starting point for the creative process

The concept is supported by exploration of Social Conscience and reflection on your position in relation to a number of issues.

 

You will watch Baraka, graph your emotional reactions to various scenes from the film and explore some of the issues raised.

Throughout this process, you will be asked to record your reactions and comment on how you see the world, your relationship to it, and what impacts you most.

Think philosophically  .... how do you fit into the big picture, ie the world, what unites us as people, what would the world be like without humans.

 

As you watch Baraka you will come across the following issues (among many others). Ponder these concerns for the world and make some thought experiments in your visual diary.

SOME THEMES ~ HUMAN TRAFFICING ~ http://www.abc.net.au/rn/encounter/stories/2008/2125162.htm#transcript

 

~ POPULATION + POVERTY ~

~ PRIORITIES FOR SAVING THE WORLD ~

 

MANDALAS

Atoms and Mandalas ~ part 2

Now read this story and paste it into your Visual Diary ~ what does it say about the responsibility of each and every one of us?

Here is a 'poetic' explanation of the connections between the stuff of the world http://www.mandalazone.com/essay-0301.html

Explore some mandala designs - you will create your own as a symbol of you and impose it over your Serendipity painting.