contemporaryvisual

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

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Identify links to influential art movements and their origins within contemporary international and Australian culture.

Identify the diversity of form, technique and content in Post World War II cultural environments.

Identify the effects of electronic technologies on the visual arts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaP8oS_IV9s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrXl6-1lPDU&NR=1
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Precis 1
Sandro Bocola
The Loss of Reality: The End of Modernism
http://sandrobocola-books.com/CSS/page10_eng.html#1
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Precis
A precis is not an outline, but a summary or digest. It is useful as an exercise in grasping the essential ideas of an already completed composition and in stating these ideas in a concentrated form.

Study the following facts about précis and the basic steps in writing.

1. A précis is a short summary.

2. A précis gives only the "heart" of a passage. It omits repetition and such details as examples, illustrations, and adjectives unless they are of unusual importance.

3. A précis is written in the words of the person writing it, not in the words of the original selection. Avoid the temptation to lift long phrases and whole sentences from the original.

4. A précis is written from the point of view of the author whose work is being summarized. Do not begin with such expressions as "This author says" or "The paragraph means." Begin as though you were summarizing your own writing.

In writing a précis proceed as follows:

1. Read carefully the passage to be summarized. Try to grasp the writer's main point. Spotting the topic sentences will help. Look up in the dictionary any words whose meaning is not clear. As you read, take brief notes and highlights to be used in your writing.

2. When you have finally decided what the author's main point is, write it out in your own words. Try not use the exact wording of the original except for certain key words. If you cannot translate the idea into language of your own, you do not understand them very well. Do not add any opinions or ideas of your own.

3. Revise your writing until you are sure that you have given an accurate summary.

4. Usually you will find your précis is too long, if it is more than one-forth the length of the original, it is too long, continue your revision until you have reduced the précis to its most concise.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq8PUalYa5A&NR=1

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-yldqNkGfo
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Marshall McLuhan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeDnPP6ntic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8J6uEUXlR0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImaH51F4HBw&feature=related
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Precis 2
Walter Benjamin
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
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http://vimeo.com/24724344
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Precis 3
Clement Greenburg
AVANT-GARDE AND KITSCH
http://www.sharecom.ca/greenberg/kitsch.html
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsch
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Harry Potter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOVU-tyt4h4
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Myf Warhurst's Nice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYHIXEEmHz4
http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/view/24250
http://media.smh.com.au/entertainment/the-guide/myf-warhursts-nice-3357280.html

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CASE STUDY

At QAG/GOMA select an artwork that challenges you, made between 1950 & the present.

Photograph (if allowed), draw or download an image of the work.

Record the labelling information & consider and respond in point form to the following issues.

NB. You will have to research some information about the work & artist

1 - Review the elements of design? (line, shape, form, tone, colour, texture, space)

2 - Identify the subject matter? (what is depicted or referred to?)

3 - Discuss the materials? (what is it made out of, what are those materials associated with? etc)

4 - Discuss the presentation and display (what context is it shown in, how it is placed, where it is placed, how is it framed, what is close to it? etc)

5 - What genre/s does it belong to? (what type/s or kind/s of art could it be classified as?)

6 - Identify the codes you need to understand or access the work. (what are you expected to know about, or have seen before?)

7 - Research contemporary ideas and events that may have influenced the creation of the work (what popular concepts or historical events we’re occurring in or around the time of the works production?)

8 - Research the artist’s biography and cultural background and discuss any connection this may have to the artist’s work?

9 - Discuss the influence of internationalism (globalisation, multi-culturalism, etc) and/or the legacy of colonialism in their work.

10 -Research and identify precedents for the artwork produced by other artists.

11 -Identify how electronic and information technologies have impacted on the presentation and/or creation of the artwork.

12 -Consider the differing audiences and venues the artwork has had.

Metaphysica: Red Fish 2007

Ah Xian is a senior Chinese–Australian artist who is best known for his contemporary use of the ancient mediums of porcelain, lacquer, cloisonné and jade. ‘Metaphysica’ is the title given by Ah Xian to this ongoing series of bronze busts. Cast from life in a lengthy process, each figure is subtly different in patina and expression. Also distinguishing each one are the objects which rest on top of the busts’ heads, ranging from deities and temples to animals and lamps. As he says, they are all ‘auspicious symbolic objects which reflect what people believe, love, appreciate and enjoy’. Some have a Buddhist influence and some are from historical or traditional tales, while others are from the imagination. Like the philosophy of metaphysics, these sculptures joyously explore the nature of existence and imply something beyond the physical entities we inhabit. Ah Xian is a key artist for the Collection and the Gallery has been at the forefront of displaying and collecting his work over the last ten years.

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QAG/GOMA
http://qag.qld.gov.au/about_us/visiting_the_gallery
http://qag.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/current

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