Section 1 Flashcards

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What five main words define the subjective frame?

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Emotional 
Personal
Critical
Analytical 
Psychological
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What are the four frames?

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Subjective
Cultural
Post modern
Structural

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What are five main words that define the cultural frame?

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Cultural
Sub cultural and sub cultures 
Ethnicity 
Religion 
Politics
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What five main words define the structural frame?

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Core ideas
Signs and symbols
Architectural 
Composition 
Values
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What five words define the post modern frame?

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Challenges 
Appropriates
Transforms 
Re contextualise
Constructive form taken from others
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Name five qualities of design

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Line
Texture
Tone
Colour 
Shape
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Name four relationships that can occur within a work

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Harmony
Contrast
Balance
Perspective

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Name the four visual qualities

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Qualities of design and relationships
Media
Composition
Technology

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What is appropriation?

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Using an image created by someone else for a different purpose

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What is recontextualisation?

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

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What is eclecticism?

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

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

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Born in Austria 1811

Died in Great Britain in 1901

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What was happening in Australia in 1852 when Guerard arrived?

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Melbourne was booming due to the gold rush

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What was Guerards fathers occupation?

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He painted miniatures

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Why did Guerard believe his work would do well?

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

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Name two of Von Guerards works

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

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

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When was Kngwarreye born and when did she die?

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1910 born and 1996 death

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Name two of Kngwarryes works?

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Big yam dreaming 1995

Earths creation 1994

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What two frames dominate Kngwarreys work? How?

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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Explain Kngwarreys practice

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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

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Birth and death dates of Van Gogh?

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Born 1853 in Netherlands

Died 1890 in France, aged 37

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Name two Van Gogh works

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Starry night painted in 1889

Bedroom in Arles 1888

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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
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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
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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
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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
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When was Imants Tillers born?
1950, one year after his Latvian parents had migrated to Australia
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What prompted Tillers?
Second hand experience do diverse cultural influences, along with distance, prompted tillers to consider the transmission of information via mechanical reproduction
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Name two of Tillers works?
Mount analogue 1985 Terra icognita 2005 Both large works
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Birth and death dates of Eugene Von Guerard?
Born in Austria 1811. Died in GB in 1901.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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