Section 1 Flashcards
What five main words define the subjective frame?
Emotional Personal Critical Analytical Psychological
What are the four frames?
Subjective
Cultural
Post modern
Structural
What are five main words that define the cultural frame?
Cultural Sub cultural and sub cultures Ethnicity Religion Politics
What five main words define the structural frame?
Core ideas Signs and symbols Architectural Composition Values
What five words define the post modern frame?
Challenges Appropriates Transforms Re contextualise Constructive form taken from others
Name five qualities of design
Line Texture Tone Colour Shape
Name four relationships that can occur within a work
Harmony
Contrast
Balance
Perspective
Name the four visual qualities
Qualities of design and relationships
Media
Composition
Technology
What is appropriation?
Using an image created by someone else for a different purpose
What is recontextualisation?
Putting a previously created image into a different setting, or into contemporary times. Eg bringing it up to date with a new message
What is eclecticism?
Using many different sources or work from different time frames for your inspiration
When and where was Von Guerard born, where and when did he die?
Born in Austria 1811
Died in Great Britain in 1901
What was happening in Australia in 1852 when Guerard arrived?
Melbourne was booming due to the gold rush
What was Guerards fathers occupation?
He painted miniatures
Why did Guerard believe his work would do well?
It featured national landmarks so he assumed there would be a public interest
Name two of Von Guerards works
Mt William from Mt Dryden, Victoria 1857 (average size)
North East view from the Northern top of Mount Kosciusko 1863 (average size)
When was Kngwarreye born and when did she die?
1910 born and 1996 death
Name two of Kngwarryes works?
Big yam dreaming 1995
Earths creation 1994
What two frames dominate Kngwarreys work? How?
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
What elements of the conceptual framework, relating to audience, does Kngwarreye focus on?
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
What elements of the conceptual framework, relating to world, does Kngwarreye focus on?
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
Explain Kngwarreys practice
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
Birth and death dates of Van Gogh?
Born 1853 in Netherlands
Died 1890 in France, aged 37
Name two Van Gogh works
Starry night painted in 1889
Bedroom in Arles 1888
What frame dominates Van Gogh’s work and how?
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
What elements of the conceptual framework, relating to audience, does Van Gogh focus on?
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
What elements of the conceptual framework, relating to world, does Van Gogh focus on?
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
Explain Van Gogh’s practice
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
When was Imants Tillers born?
1950, one year after his Latvian parents had migrated to Australia
What prompted Tillers?
Second hand experience do diverse cultural influences, along with distance, prompted tillers to consider the transmission of information via mechanical reproduction
Name two of Tillers works?
Mount analogue 1985
Terra icognita 2005
Both large works
What two frames dominate Tillers work, and how?
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
Explain Imants Tillers practice
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
What elements of the conceptual framework, relating to audience, does Tillers focus on?
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
What elements of the conceptual framework, relating to world, does Tillers focus on?
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
Birth and death dates of Eugene Von Guerard?
Born in Austria 1811. Died in GB in 1901.
Name two of Von Guerard’s works?
North East View from the Northern top of Mount Kosciusko 1863
Mt William from Mt Dryden, Victoria 1857
Name the two dominating frames of Von Guerard’s work and how they dominate?
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
What elements of the conceptual framework, relating to audience, does Guerard focus on?
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
What elements of the conceptual framework, relating to world, does Von Guerard focus on?
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
Explain Von Guerard’s practice
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
