Year 7

The Flower of Life 

 

 

Term 2 ~ Micro/Macro

karl blossfeldt

Research the images by Blossfeldt

This is an interesting site for design taken a step further ~ http://urbanartprojects.wordpress.com/category/marker/#post-486

 

 

 

http://tinylanscapes.wordpress.com/category/flowers/

Take your own micro photographs - be sure to look for overlapping

 

Margaret Preston

http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/sub/preston/

Australian Gum Flowers Painting 1928 Bird of Paradise Relief Woodblock  1928

 

WATCH THE VIDEO on Preston from the NATIONAL GALLERY

Hear about her focus on aboriginal perspectives

 

LINO PRINTING

examples of relief prints 1. the carved sheet of lino, 2. the print from the carved block

 

Denis Nona

Nona Sesserae.pdf

more relief prints showing directional line

This image demonstrates the excellent use of directional line to create form

Can you see that the artist hasn't used a cut line to show the outline of the objects?

How has the artist defined the different areas of the print?

http://ilocke.blogspot.com/

 

 

THE TECHNIQUE

http://www.jocelynmathewes.com/blog/howto/

Here's a blog on Printmaking using the Relief Technique

 

You might enjoy looking at some other links about Micro / Macro + Art / Science + Art / Maths

 

 

 

 

YOUR Canberra Trip

 

While you are in Canberra you will visit 3 Art Sites ....

 

The National Portrait Gallery this is a fabulous collection of the 'unexpected' ways artists have of depicting the idea of portraits ... another linked + excellent site to check out ... http://www.portrait.gov.au/animated/ animated  portraits ~ really interesting. Also, the National Youth Self Portrait Prize will be on display while you are there showing ten shortlisted portraits including the prize-winning work ~ National Portrait Gallery, Old Parliament House from 27 March until 27 April 2008.

 

The National Gallery of Australia NGA 

TURNER TO MONET

http://www.nga.gov.au/TurnertoMonet/Flash/

 

 

 

You will visit DRAWN IN - here's a sneak preview ... 

 

visit ~ www.nga.gov.au/Exhibition/OceantoOutback/ for a glimpse at some Australian Landscape works. This is a travelling exhibition launched by the NGA

 

The National Gallery Sculpture Garden ~ click on the Quicktime Panoramas to get an impression of the sculpture garden

You will have some tasks to complete when you visite these exhibitions ... so get a head start by visiting the links above.

 

Semester 1 ~ Micro Macro

Drawing, Painting with Auntie Sally, Lino Prints

 

Semester 2

Looking at Symmetry, Making Rangolis/Making Community

See an example of a Rangoli made by Year 6 students at St Hilda's a few years ago: click to play ~

 

~ Synaesthesia

This idea of Synaesthesia is used as a conceptual frame for artmaking that leads to an understanding of the ways in which the senses are linked in the search to make meaning.

Students listen to music, move expressively, taste, smell and engage with textures and then find a visual equivalent ie using visual language to deconstruct and reconstruct the experience.

Although there is a long documented history of artists as synaesthetes, the frame work behind Year 7 (and Year 11 from 2008) studies, is not to make synaesthetes of our students but to raise their awareness of the world around them and connect their experiences hopefully leading to greater understanding of their own personal perspective and philosophy of life.

Colour scales ~ http://www.rhythmiclight.com/archives/ideas/colorscales.html

Plate 2: COLOUR COMPOSITION DERIVED FROM THREE BARS OF MUSIC IN THE

KEY OF GREEN (aka COLOUR SCALE ON A MUSICAL THEME FROM BEETHOVEN),

Roy De Maistre, 1935. Private Collection. (from "Roy De Maistre: The English

Years, 1930 to 1968", Heather Johnson.)