Section 1

Question 0

What five main words define the subjective frame?

Answer 0

Emotional 
Personal
Critical
Analytical 
Psychological

Question 1

What are the four frames?

Answer 1

Subjective
Cultural
Post modern
Structural

Question 2

What are five main words that define the cultural frame?

Answer 2

Cultural
Sub cultural and sub cultures 
Ethnicity 
Religion 
Politics

Question 3

What five main words define the structural frame?

Answer 3

Core ideas
Signs and symbols
Architectural 
Composition 
Values

Question 4

What five words define the post modern frame?

Answer 4

Challenges 
Appropriates
Transforms 
Re contextualise
Constructive form taken from others

Question 5

Name five qualities of design

Answer 5

Line
Texture
Tone
Colour 
Shape

Question 6

Name four relationships that can occur within a work

Answer 6

Harmony
Contrast
Balance
Perspective

Question 7

Name the four visual qualities

Answer 7

Qualities of design and relationships
Media
Composition
Technology

Question 8

What is appropriation?

Answer 8

Using an image created by someone else for a different purpose

Question 9

What is recontextualisation?

Answer 9

Putting a previously created image into a different setting, or into contemporary times. Eg bringing it up to date with a new message

Question 10

What is eclecticism?

Answer 10

Using many different sources or work from different time frames for your inspiration

Question 11

When and where was Von Guerard born, where and when did he die?

Answer 11

Born in Austria 1811

Died in Great Britain in 1901

Question 12

What was happening in Australia in 1852 when Guerard arrived?

Answer 12

Melbourne was booming due to the gold rush

Question 13

What was Guerards fathers occupation?

Answer 13

He painted miniatures

Question 14

Why did Guerard believe his work would do well?

Answer 14

It featured national landmarks so he assumed there would be a public interest

Question 15

Name two of Von Guerards works

Answer 15

Mt William from Mt Dryden, Victoria 1857 (average size)

North East view from the Northern top of Mount Kosciusko 1863 (average size)

Question 16

When was Kngwarreye born and when did she die?

Answer 16

1910 born and 1996 death

Question 17

Name two of Kngwarryes works?

Answer 17

Big yam dreaming 1995

Earths creation 1994

Question 18

What two frames dominate Kngwarreys work? How?

Answer 18

Cultural - aboriginality, traditions and values are reflected in her work. Traditional colours and materials are also used, such as batik and ochre
Subjective - used her intuition and emotional responses to influence her work, her work evoked an emotional response from the audience

Question 19

What elements of the conceptual framework, relating to audience, does Kngwarreye focus on?

Answer 19

Engages the audience with her linear style
Allows the audience to appreciate the way her heritage and sense of community can come through within the work
World renown as the power within her work is easily recognised

Question 20

What elements of the conceptual framework, relating to world, does Kngwarreye focus on?

Answer 20

The Australian world accepted her as their most renown and talented female answers, accepting her aboriginality
Her world was supportive, but ended up being controlling and forced her to continue painting as it provided a good income

Question 21

Explain Kngwarreys practice

Answer 21

She worked in large scale with no preliminary sketches or drawings
She sat on the ground painting cross legged, upon stretched canvas that allowed the canvas to absorb the land
Worked from the edges inward, her dots painted with fingers, sticks, brushes and groups of brushes

Question 22

Birth and death dates of Van Gogh?

Answer 22

Born 1853 in Netherlands

Died 1890 in France, aged 37

Question 23

Name two Van Gogh works

Answer 23

Starry night painted in 1889

Bedroom in Arles 1888

Question 24

What frame dominates Van Gogh’s work and how?

Answer 24

Subjective - his works were all very emotional and were connected to him, he did them all while emotionally unstable
He worked strongly from his imaginings, emotions, psychological experiences
His style of painting reflected his emotional disarray

Question 25

What elements of the conceptual framework, relating to audience, does Van Gogh focus on?

Answer 25

At the time he was producing his work he was ostracised and was laughed at for his style
The modern audience appreciates his work and how he was just trying to paint the disease out

Question 26

What elements of the conceptual framework, relating to world, does Van Gogh focus on?

Answer 26

At the time there was not many technological advances, there was a job crisis, and there were strict rules put in place on the acceptability of art
His world was full of people that didn’t respect him or understand him, they thought of him as talentless and a drunk
The world that was the inside of his head

Question 27

Explain Van Gogh’s practice

Answer 27

He would sketch his drawing ideas and landscapes into notebooks and then transfer them to canvases
He preferred to use oils as his expressive form
He created his own unique painting style that set him apart from other artists, but still classed him as a post impressionist
He wanted to produce a more substantial form of art expression, the subject required thoughtful interpretation, and the art had to be considered

Question 28

When was Imants Tillers born?

Answer 28

1950, one year after his Latvian parents had migrated to Australia

Question 29

What prompted Tillers?

Answer 29

Second hand experience do diverse cultural influences, along with distance, prompted tillers to consider the transmission of information via mechanical reproduction

Question 30

Name two of Tillers works?

Answer 30

Mount analogue 1985
Terra icognita 2005
Both large works

Question 31

What two frames dominate Tillers work, and how?

Answer 31

Post modern - appropriates and recontextualises, uses modern techniques to create his art

Structural - symbolism, uses various aboriginal symbols and signs to integrate the two cultures
Structure of work, the way that he has many small works that are connected together to make one impressive work

Question 32

Explain Imants Tillers practice

Answer 32

He took inspiration from Guerard and Christopher and Jean Claude
Used small canvas boards to create one large work
Every canvas was numbered and then stacked
He questioned social values
The idea of reinvesting the copy with the status of the original was a huge part of his concept

Question 33

What elements of the conceptual framework, relating to audience, does Tillers focus on?

Answer 33

The small canvas boards put together made a whole and complete work for the audience
Controversy was sparked within society after the appropriation of Jagamara’s and Kngwarreyes work
He felt displaced and could therefore connect with the aboriginal people on that level

Question 34

What elements of the conceptual framework, relating to world, does Tillers focus on?

Answer 34

He felt it was okay to put himself into the aboriginal world and use their art as his own because he felt a sense of connection within them and their dislocation
Appropriation was becoming acceptable due to the changing confines that the post modern art movement was changing and evolving

Question 35

Birth and death dates of Eugene Von Guerard?

Answer 35

Born in Austria 1811. Died in GB in 1901.

Question 36

Name two of Von Guerard’s works?

Answer 36

North East View from the Northern top of Mount Kosciusko 1863
Mt William from Mt Dryden, Victoria 1857

Question 37

Name the two dominating frames of Von Guerard’s work and how they dominate?

Answer 37

Subjective - his experiences with scientific party
His imagination and addition of people and boulders into the foreground
His psychological thoughts, he thought it would sell well due to the subject matter
Structural - symbolism, mountains, sky, storms, boulders, people as a scale reference
Colour and tone (qualities of design) colour to show realism, tone to show depth
Structure of work, background and middle ground were realistic, foreground was manipulated

Question 38

What elements of the conceptual framework, relating to audience, does Guerard focus on?

Answer 38

At the time they were unreceptive and unappreciative of his work
After many shows and exhibitions that were unsuccessful, he found success in Europe in 1873
Modern audiences appreciate his manipulation

Question 39

What elements of the conceptual framework, relating to world, does Von Guerard focus on?

Answer 39

His main work wasn’t socially accepted at the time, but his commissions for homestead art was
He was within and English speaking country, where he felt isolated and an outsider
Travelled from Geelong to Melbourne, then the North Eastern district of Victoria and Mount Kosciusko

Question 40

Explain Von Guerard’s practice

Answer 40

He wanted to create work that reflected the imagery of the land, and believed it would be successful due to the subject matter being a national symbol of pride
Took sketches at the site in various notebooks
Painted in his Melbourne studio
In the foreground he used manipulation to make his art more visually appealing
He used people as a scale reference within the work
There was a realistic approach in the inclusion of approaching storms
Followed the mid century practice of painting the background and middle ground realistically, sign the foreground manipulated