Art

Antony Gormley (Quote)

"Art confronts life, allowing it to stop and change direction"

Ken Done (Quote)

"Art is certainly not for any one group of people"

Banksy (Quote)

"Art is meant to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable"

Eugene Delacroix (Quote)

"What inspires art is not new ideas but the obsession with the idea that what has been said is still not enough"

Andy Warhol (Quote)

"Why do people think artists are special, its just another job"

Additive

Adding to an artwork to add new meaning

Grant Wood - Modernism

American Gothic 1930, made using family as models, windows of a house were long so made faces to fit the windows. Intended to show survivors, during a time of major disillusionment and hardship

Jacques-Louis David - Neo classical

Anger of Achilles 1819, Achilles finds out the girl is not a bride but a sacrifice to the gods, expressing loss, grief and sacrifice

Negative spaces

Areas unoccupied by objects

Jackson Pollock - Abstract expressionist

Autumn Rhythm: Number 30, 1950, evocative of nature with sense of colour, ground and space, and produced a calm tranquility. Used paint in various colors - lines thick and thin, light and dark, straight and curved, horizontal and vertical. No point of focus, and no hierarchy of elements.

Back ground

Away from viewer

Georges Seurat - Post impressionism

Bathers at Asnieres 1884, River Seine and bathers on the river side, applied to Jury of Salon but rejected. Represents working class, and can be coincided with other side of the river where the middle class is seen. An example of pointillism, used planning for this work A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte 1886, everyone in shadows, compared to everyone in light in Asnieres, implying the Asnieres working class are the future

Ai Weiwei - post modernist

Berlin Konzerthaus Life Jackets highlighting refugee crisis, 2016. The collection of 14,000 life vests from refugees who landed on the Greek Island of Lesbos after battling the Mediterranean Sea from Turkey. Ai hopes the bright orange installation draws attention to the hundreds of refugees that are trying to reach Europe each day, over 400 of whom have died attempting the same journey since the beginning of the year.

Middle ground

Between back ground and foreground

Emily Kam Kngwarreye - Contemporary indigenous art

Big Yam Dreaming 1995, Emily completed this epic work in only two days, the same time it took assistants to prime the canvas black. brushstrokes that stop and start in a measured yet organic style. The drawn surface lays bare the bones — the skeleton that underlies much of her art — and can be likened to the veins, sinews and contours seen in the body of the land from above. The network of white lines traces the patterns of the arterial roots of the finger yam, Anooralya. The lines bear a resemblance to the arterial roots of the yam below the ground, which mirror the crazed pattern of cracked earth above, caused by tubers when they ripen and expand. People locate the food by digging down through the cracks.

Liu Zhuoquan - Post modern

Broken finger 2010, missing fingers to represent Chinese factory worker conditions, glass bottle shows restrictions of workers in China. Encourages audience to reflect on social class • Recontextualisation: Found bottles to communicate metaphor of confinement in Chinese society • Allegory: Conveys more then one meaning on his artworks • Juxtaposition: Bottles close together with contrasting affect • Virtuosity: Great technical skill • Retrospective: Display of artists ongoing work, work over time • Ephemeral due to short nature of art before sold to tourists • Pastiche, of snuff bottle painting (Imitates traditional snuff bottle painting)

Post modern frame

Challenges traditions and conventions in art. Set out to shock. Raise questions, using appropriations, pastiche, irony, parody and satire. Also use new technologies to challenge the notion of artworks as a unique, precious, long lasting objects. Challenges the established ideas of what is valuable and significant and what is not. The artist challenging of traditions and mainstream ideas - new media, new forms of display, appropriation, pastiche, parody or irony.

Foreground

Close to viewer

Structural frame

Communication, system of signs and symbols (Semiotics). Artists develop a visual language using such art elements as line, colour, shape, texture, lighting and 3D space. Convections and codes considered in this frame, as each medium has its own set of conventions. Also focuses on the physical nature of art making; how its made, what its made from and how big it is

Henri Matisse - Fauvism

Dance I 1909, and Dance II 1910, warm colors of the subject matter against cool background, break in dancers hands at front for audience to join in or to view as tension. Matisse drew them differently to show a change, from light to dark, from happy and free to ritualistic and demonic

Contapposto

Describes the pose of a figure standing wit most of its weight on one foot, putting the shoulders and hips on an angle

Action painting

Dripped, smeared, splashed - like pollock

Dominance

Emphasis on one aspect

Ben Quilty - Post modernist

Fairy Bower Rorschach 2012, a waterfall location where an indigenous massacre occurred

Focal point

Focused attention

Marcel Duchamp - Dada

Fountain 1917, poked fun at Avant-garde movements in America. Art should be about the artist's idea, such as the re-use of materials of urinals. Art is something you piss on

Mark Rothko - Abstract expressionist

Four darks in red, 1958, depicts 4 dark shades against a dark red background. The piece has no "meaning" in the normal sense of the word, but rather the painting is itself its own meaning. These paintings are not meant to be dissected and understood with the intellect, but focused on and joined with, enjoyed in a visual experience that can capture one's usually erratic attention and thereby uplift one's mood

Andres Amador - Sand Artist - Post modernist

Gratitude 2015, sand art commissioned by an energy drink company selling kombucha

Eugene Delacroix - Romanticism

Liberty Leading the People 1830, the French July revolution, use of pyramid shape, light to highlight dead underneath her, pays tribute to those who died

Dale Chihuly - Modernist/Post modern

Niijima floats 1992, inspired by 1989 trip to Niijima, use of glass he found on the beach. Represents both fishing floats washed ashore. Also resemble lava or molten rock

Paul Signac - Post Impressionism

Opus 217 - Portrait of Felix Feneon 1890, Feneon was an art dealer and political activist. The title refers to combination of sounds, lines and colors that symbolist artists use to convey their inner world

Fiona Hall - Post modernist

Paradisus terrestris, use of Sardine tins with erotic imagery forged into the tin. Hall also uses the juxtaposition of the human body and native flora to imply a collision between Culture and Nature. A series of fifteen sardine cans, transformed from the mundane detritus of contemporary consumption into refined aesthetic objects. The wound-down top of each tin reveals a human erogenous zone or body-part. Sprouting above these are botanically correct representations of native flora

Salvador Dali - Surrealism

Persistence of Memory 1931, subverting inherent textual properties: the softening of hard objects, cliffs in background from his home. When asked whether or not about Einstein's theory of relativity, stated was perception of a Camembert cheese melting in the sun. Watches relative to time and place. Had sequel, "disintegration of persistence of memory"

Subjective frame

Personal and emotional response. Pink for feelings of love, passion and anger. We consider imagination, sensory experiences, human consciousness, deep feelings and personal expression - an artist working from the heart. Can examine physical, psychological and spiritual experiences

Liang Yuanwei - Post modern

Picture of Early spring 2010, a two part installation of stools and chairs, influenced by her culture of the regularity of these stools in China for poorer families, and the colors relating to her feeling of spring

Cultural frame

Politics, environmental, economics all considered as social issues. Understood from a social perspective and may relate to such issues as race, cultural identity, multiculturalism, gender, beliefs and values. Everyone and everything exists in a network of relationships. The social meaning of the artwork - culture, class, gender, ideology, beliefs, politics and religion can be inspiration, or provoke artists.

Myuran Sukamaren - Post modernist

Portrait of Indonesian President Widodo 2015, a portrait of the man who sent him to death Self portrait depicting death

Point of View

Positing audience to see what the artist wants the audience to see. For example Gustave Caillebotte's Le pont de l'europe

Harmony

Principle which creates unity within the artwork

Gesture drawing

Quickly and loosely

Motif

Repeated pattern

Organic

Shapes that aren't geometrical, more irregular

Gustave caillebotte - Le pont de l'europe

Shows point of view, perspective

Paul Cezanne - Post impressionism

Still Life With Apples 1898, Painting from nature is not copying the object," he wrote, "it is realizing one's sensations." Uses organic shapes to depict the fruit

Banksy - Street art/Post modernist

Suicide is illegal, describing the government owns individuals as property. Political art

Subtractive

Taking away from an artwork to create new meaning

Marina Abramovic - Performance art, conceptual art

The Artist is Present, depicting herself in a chair all day encountering guests

J.M.W. Turner - Romanticism

The Fighting Temiare 1839, possible representation of Britain's declining naval power evoking a sense of loss, sense of replacing old with new

Edvard Munch - Expressionism

The Scream 1893-1910, name given to the four different types of "the Scream". Influenced by growing up in home of illness, walking outside a mental hospital when the sunset, and he heard scream of nature. Munch feared mental illness, common in his family

Xu Bing - Post modernist

Tobacco project 2011, describing it as a relation between lovers, not to close or too far as well as exploring a wide range of issues, from global trade and exploitation to the ironies of advertising a harmful substance.

Vernon Ah Kee - Contemporary art

Unwritten #9 2008, A face emerges from the schematic, delicate but slashing lines drawn by Ah Kee with charcoal on canvas, Ah Kee made them in response to the death in police custody of a young man, referring to the haunting history of racism and violence against indigenous peoples in Australia

Monochromatic

Use of only one colour, varying intensity

Casper David Friedrich - German Romanticism

Wander Above the Sea of Fog 1818, showing the audience the world through the artists eyes, inviting them in. A medium of spiritual and physiological biography. Standing in self reflection, and use of bright palette

Andy Warhol - Modernism

• Campbell's Soup Cans 1962, made up of 32 canvases, individually hung, representing 32 different types of soup sold by Campbell's. It resembles the mass produced printed advertisements, which inspired Warhol. All hand painted. • Gold Marilyn Monroe, made after her death as a tribute, based off publicity photo for her movie Niagara, By duplicating a photo known to millions, Warhol undermined the uniqueness and authenticity characteristic of traditional portraiture. Instead he represented her as an infinitely reproducible image 1962

Claude Monet - French Impressionsim

• Red Poppies/Poppy Field 1873, painted on plein air, diluted contours, blobs of colour and sprinkled poppies • Japanese Footbridge 1899, broad rendered water lilies, loving the landscape and creating the pond himself • Rouen Cathedral (Series) 1894, en plein air, properties of light used, early expressionist, purely aesthetic

Jonathan Jones - Post modernist

• Untitled (the tyranny of distance) 2008, uses tarps given to victims of natural disasters, title alludes to the continuing 'Northern Territory intervention' • 68 Fletcher Bondi 2003, represents Bondi headland, used light to articulate the connection between people and place. He uses time and place through the creation of how Bondi's headland is shaped now, in the present.