Evaluate the ways different artists represent ideas and interests in the world through the development of a visual language. * Andy Goldsworthy * Tracey Moffatt Through the development of a visual language, artists represent and develop ideas and interests to convey to the world. Andy Goldsworthy and Tracey Moffatt are post-modern artists who have very different ideas but portray strong messages to society. Andy Goldsworthy uses the environment to create works and Tracey Moffatt uses the idea of growing up and Aboriginal identity and rights for her ideas to come across. Both Moffatt and Goldsworthy leave the audience with a variety of mixed reactions and criticism to their art works which are good motifs for an artist of these kinds.
And therefore he suggests that “Shearing the Rams was not an icon of Australian legend at the time of its making…”5 It merely was connecting with the relationship of a class ideology and subsequently became one. Although this suggestion is disheartening to many current Australian’s it is justified when you consider that “nationalism is not an ideology: it is an appeal to the social units made specific by the class ideology and interests which call on it at particular times.” 6 This means that at a later date the image of bush labour and pastoral life, the foundation which the country was built on, became a strong ideological symbol of what it meant to be Australian. Probably the most different reading is Tim Bonyhady’s ‘Contrasting Lights’ as he does not, like Burn’s and Smith, analyse the ideological and class interpretations of the audiences at the time. Instead, he concentrates more on stylistic influence and emergence of the Heidelberg
Therefore when we make painting of water, cloud then it is an art, but when a person look at reality of water and clouds is not art. There are different aspects of art such as narrative, expression, and formal. A formal aspect of art is anything that has lines, shapes, values, color, texture, pattern, rhythm, balance, scale, proportion, and motion. Formal quality of art is based on the values of people, their culture and the way of people’s thinking. There are different types of arts and those arts can be compared and contrasted in one way or the other.
Stars on flags had been widely used all around the world. Our federation star is meaningless. People would have to know about what it stands for to realise its importance. Even the Southern Cross is not very Australian - It could be used throughout the Southern Hemisphere. In order to make our flag Australian, we must use proper symbols.
TASK: Area of Study: Identity Identity is known as the set of distinct characteristics that defines an individual as a persisting entity. It is influenced by the environment that surrounds you and the people you associate with. This is shown in the prescribed texts A D Hope’s poem, “Australia“ and the film ‘Looking For Alibrandi’.Both texts demonstrate how a sense of identity may be shaped by people and places. In A.D.Hope’s poem, “Australia”, Hope tries to voice his personal perspective of the Australian identity. The country is demonstrated as vast and is viewed upon differently by diverse individuals.
C2—The course teaches students to understand works of art within their historical context by examining issues such as politics, religion, patronage, gender, function, and ethnicity. The course also teaches students visual analysis of works of art. The course teaches students to understand works of art through both contextual and visual analysis. Art of Ancient Greece: Gods, Heroes, and Athletes [C1] Topics: Context and Visual Analysis [C2] • Concept of democracy • Greek humanism: man as the measure of all things • Evolution, transition, and progression of the ideal human figure in Greek art: geometric, orientalizing, archaic, severe, classical, late classical, Hellenistic • Balance, harmony, beauty, and proportion in man and in art based on mathematical proportions • Mythology permeates Greek life and subject matter in art • Golden Age of Pericles • The Parthenon: geometry and the human form • Progression of architectural orders: Doric, Ionic, Corinthian • Hellenism and the spread of Greek art • Cosmopolitan structure replaces independent city states [C2] 4 TEST: One
Winckelmann uses the context of the place, use of art, habits of thoughts and the relevent period. The context is of the art culture as a whole. His methods were Connoisseurship and the study of documentary evidence. The Formalism was created Heinrich Wolfflin and achieves this by using the study of art by analysing and comparing form and style. He emphasized elements such as line, colour, shape and texture.
Photography entails recording images which presents a distinct feeling about the object being captured. Similarly, photographers exploit their artistic endeavours by capturing images which have a special effect on them or which portray what their thoughts so that other people can be participate in appreciation of natural and abstract objects. Photography is therefore part of art as its dependent on artistic ideologies especially when carrying out large scale photography. There are very many genres of photography one of them being photojournalism which involves capturing images and events so as to or support generate stories. The other form of photography is fine art photography which is more artistic and delves on the emotional part of the individual.
Complex interworking of representation of perceived reality by the painter, ideological approach of the viewer is at play, both, striving to figure out the real. The paper will try to analyze Frida Kahlo’s two paintings Self-Portrait With Thorn Necklace and Humming Bird and Henry ford hospital, The Flying Bed under this lens. The term visual might seem to a layman too simplistic to be critically analyzed but the field of visual culture expands the scope of our ways of seeing and the perceptions that govern an individual's spectatorship. It is easy to define visual as "What is visible to eyes" but new vistas are opened when as students of visual studies we set to decipher the fact that our understanding of reality is primarily if not wholly based on our pre-conceived notions, acquired ideas, collective unconsciousness (Jung), ideologies etc. I call this method of visualizing as pre-conceived because it is governed by our societal cultures, traditions, norms and beliefs.
A Fourth Theory of Meaning When it comes to examining art, there are many debates as to what determines the meaning of the piece. Several distinct theories attempt to explain how to conclude the true meaning of a work of art, including the theory of intentionalism, the reader response-theory, and the formalist theory. Intentionalism focuses on the idea that an artist’s original intentions when creating the piece determines its correct meaning, while the reader-response theory outlines a belief that meaning is realized by the viewers of the artwork. Formalists are different in that they believe the meaning of the work of art is based on the art alone, despite original intentions of the artist. All three theories are backed by strong arguments, however, they are each faulty in that there are still counterarguments that make it difficult to regard any single theory as the ultimate explanation for what determines the meaning of a work of art.