documents for year 12 art revision

STYLISTIC MOVEMENTS OF ART

ELEMENTS & PRINCIPLES - VISUAL ANALYSIS

COMPARISON OF BOSCH & PICCININI

THE CONTEMPORARY FRAMEWORK

WANGECHI MUTU ISSUE

documents for year 12 theory

SAC Task

The 4 Analytical Frameworks

The Contemporary Framework information

Comparison Table of "Garden of Earthly Delights" and "Protein Lattice"

BOSCH
Bosch (some info)
The Complete Paintings -  Bosch (TASCHEN TEXT ONLINE)
A more in-depth overview of Bosch
Interpretation of "The garden of earthly delights" (contribute your ideas in dot points)

PICCININI
The artistic experiments of Patricia Piccinini
Challenging modern life, opinions and emotions with art
EVOLUTION exhibition resource
PICCININI at South Australia Art Gallery

Jean Michel Basquiat (born 1960 - died 1988)

Use the links below for your research on Basquiat:

Good Luck!

http://www.basquiat.com/artist.htm#

Go to the essay section to read info on 5 of Basquiat's paintings.

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/basquiat/street-to-studio/

This website is fun and interactive and has info on 6 paintings

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuZZ3gY2_9I&feature=related

You can watch "The Radiant Child" documentary on Basquiat. It's on youtube in 7 parts. It has lots of great real footage of him.

http://www.studio-international.co.uk/painting/basquiat.asp

http://purple.niagara.edu/cam/special/Art_of_80s/Artists/basquiat.html

Hieronymus Bosch (born 1450 approx - died 1516, Dutch)

Formal Interpretation (pay close attention to creative descriptive language and art terms)
elements / principles / materials / techniques /style / symbols

• The Garden of Earthly delights was painted with oil on wood panels in the form of a triptych between 1490-1510. 
• Unsettling inversions of SCALE dominate the center and right panels. What meaning does this create? 
• Bosch's style was said to be influenced by the RENAISSANCE in the way he paid such careful attention to detail and the realistic portrayal of the world around him. eg. His beastly, devil-like creatures are constructed from close observation of parts of real animals. He has been recognised as a fore-runner to the 20th century movement of SURREALISM. 
• Bosch arranges objects and figures vertically to imply some depth to the scene. They reduce in scale to give the feeling of them receding into the distance. 
• Bosch's application of oil paint was revolutionary for his time. He applied rough layers of paint in a style that came to be called IMPASTO. 
• The composition of the central panel is symmetrically balanced. The complementary colours of red and green dominate this panel and draw emphasis to the red fruit as an important symbol of meaning. 
• The bright colours and repetitious detail of carefully painted flesh provide a beautiful feast for the eyes. Bosch employs repeated tiny dot shapes to also create pattern evoking 'a luscious jewel-like surface'.

art websites

Here is a list of websites that I know of for finding new and interesting artists:

http://www.emptykingdom.com/main/

http://antiquechildren.com/

http://www.vivianite.net/

http://www.metrogallery.com.au/

http://www.juxtapoz.com/

http://hifructose.com/the-blog.html

Ben Quilty (Australian) - indigenous issues, Australian identity, masculinity

Ben Quilty
Landcruiser, 2007
Cinese Ink and Goauche on Aquari paper
188 x 282cm


It’s an old trick. Take a universal, publicly owned snatch of
melody, fanfare, phrase or image and pervert it. Ben Quilty
has used the Australian coat of arms, an image so offi cial and
hoary it’s almost invisible, and mounted it on a mesa piled
with skulls. The shield-bearers are presented as road-kill,
the kangaroo muzzle fl attened by a double bogie. Between
them now is a cairn of skulls knitted by worms and lies. The
crest is a convict shackle, looking as though it was cut from
a kerosene tin, just to make it clear that not all the bones
belonged to Indigenous Australians.
Like most people, Ben Quilty defi es caricature. A bogan who
chose to pursue a degree in Aboriginal culture. A petrolhead
who buys his art supplies at Bunnings, yet carries tiny
notebooks full of the most exquisite pen-and-ink sketches of
Venice done in his recent youth. Close in, where Quilty works,
his paintings look like a bad paving job. Step back twenty
feet and he’s caught the whole sorry tale, a country built by
the survivors of pogroms, massacres and land clearances
elsewhere, who found a haven here on land cleared by
massacres of our own.
Don Walker

Text from: UQ Art Museum http://www.uq.edu.au/maynecentre/docs/BenQuiltyInterpretiveGuide.pdf


When people ask him why he paints such pessimistic work, Quilty says his view of Australians preferring to ignore the less-than-rosy aspects of Australian history is confirmed. "I love my life, my family, friends and work, and I'm a very lucky person," he says. "But there are some really bad things happening. It seems to me that in Australia no one talks about them, and if you do you're branded as a pessimist. It's just ridiculous.
"The whole 'un-Australian' thing at the moment, that's just insane. I mean, Captain Cook shot the first Aboriginal he met - well, let's talk about that. What's un-Australian? What school do you ever learn Aboriginal in? You learn French and German but I've never heard of a school that teaches Aboriginal and that's the most un-Australian thing I can think of."
Quilty also finds it bizarre that the Union Jack, rather than a representation of Aboriginal people, remains on the Australian flag. "I'm happy to burn the flag. As long as it's got the Union Jack on it, I'll burn it. The Australian flag, as it is, speaks to me of oppression and invasion and it's so politically incorrect to say any of this stuff, but it's also so obvious."

Text from:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/arts/the-hot-seat-ben-quilty/2007/03/16/1173722723863.html

Rorschach – the
Butterfly Effect, 2008.


Where did all this darkness come from? "I started using the skull image when I was buying kids' clothes for my cousins," Quilty, 34, says. "Everything for boys had skulls emblazoned on it. And I just thought, it's such a weird thing to be instilling in little boys, who are full of life."

METRO GALLERY - ARMADALE

METRO GALLERY
1214 High Street
Armadale
Melbourne
METRO GALLERY showcases some really interesting artists and is well worth a look if you are ever in the area. This month they have Anthony Lister on show.