My Place My Space

1. My Place My Space Year 11 Visual Arts

2. Unpacking the Concept CONCEPT: Consider the title “My Place, My Space” as a stimulus to create experimental works and a resolved a mixed media representational artpiece. You are challenged to consider that you are who you are because of where you are, where you have been and where you are going. Your focus can investigate physical space/place such as your bedroom or an emotional state representing your headspace. We all exist physically and emotionally and occupy many physical places during our daily lives and experience changing emotional states throughout each day. This unit urges you to capture a snap shot of this existence and communicate visually your chosen focus.

3. Context • The context can be thought of as a lens that you view your focus through • Personal - relating to a specific person rather than anyone else - their life, their opinion • Sociocultural - relating to or involving cultural and social factors • Society -The totality of social relationships among humans. A group of humans broadly distinguished from other groups by mutual interests, participation in characteristic relationships, shared institutions, and a common culture. • Culture - The totality of socially transmitted behaviour patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought. These patterns, traits, and products considered as the expression of a particular period, class, community, or population: Australian Teen culture; Japanese culture; the culture of poverty. The predominating attitudes and behaviour that characterize the functioning of a group or organization. • Geographical – place on Earth; your physical environment • Historical - existing, happening, or relating to the past. • Spiritual -relating to the soul or spirit, usually in contrast to material things; relating to religious or sacred things rather than worldly things. • Scientific/Technical- the study, development, and application of devices, machines, and techniques for manufacturing and productive processes • Psychological -relating to the mind or mental processes; the characteristic temperament and associated behaviour of a person or group, or that exhibited by those engaged in an activity

4. Focuses A focus is a concentrated effort or attention on a particular thing, an area of concern, or investigation.

5. Body of Work A body of works is a collection of investigative artpieces leading to a single or “major” work/s. The body of work shows your progress through the inquiry learning model (researching, developing, resolving, reflecting), as you integrates the components of the course (concept, focus, context, media area(s) and visual language and expression). You should be basing your artist practice on the Inquiry Learning Model

6. Inquiry Learning Model

13. Where to Find Artists and Inspiration http://www.artquotes.net/artists.htm World Wide Web Many interactive and static websites include useful resources and can be used to enhance a course in Visual Art. Many museums, galleries and universities have websites which can be accessed through a range of search engines. Some other particularly useful sites for Visual Art include: www.artwhatson.com.au/ Visual arts portal www.artsinfo.net.au/ Australian government arts information portal www.art-almanac.com.au/ Art Almanac, identifying Australian galleries www.nga.gov.au National Gallery of Australia www.artlex.com/ Visual Arts dictionary www.artcyclopedia.com/ Search engine for Art information

14. Artist and other inspirations I Have found

15. Artist List from Tasksheet: MC Escher, Willem De Kooning, Kristin Tennyson, Candy Jernigan, ZangXiaogang, Davida Allen, Frida Kahlo, Brett Whiteley, Francis Bacon, Arone Meeks, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Velazquez, James, Gleeson, Egon Schiele, Orlan ,Andy Warhol, Anneke Silver, Cindy Sherman, Tracey Moffat, Jean Michel Basquiat, Julie Rrap, Madonna Staunton, John Dahlsen,

16. Vincent van Gogh(1853 -1890) Van Gogh for whom colour was the chief symbol of expression, was born in Holland. Van Gogh's finest works were produced in less than three years in a technique that grew more and more impassioned in brushstroke, in symbolic and intense colour, in surface tension, and in the movement and vibration of form and line. http://www.vangoghgallery.com/misc/bio.html Van Gogh's Room at Arles, 1888 Oil on Canvas 57 cm x 74 cm

17. Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972) is one of the world's most famous graphic artists. He is most famous for his so-called impossible structures, such as Ascending and Descending, Relativity, his Transformation Prints, such as Metamorphosis I, Metamorphosis II and Metamorphosis III, Sky & Water I or Reptiles.Escher played with architecture, perspective and impossible spaces. His art continues to amaze and wonder millions of people all over the world. In his work we recognize his keen observation of the world around us and the expressions of his own fantasies. M.C. Escher shows us that reality is wondrous, comprehensible and fascinating. http://www.mcescher.com/ M.C. (Maurits Cornelis) Escher : Hand with Reflecting Sphere - 1935 Lithograph

18. Jean Michel Basquiat 1960 -1988 "The only thing the market liked better than a hot young artist was a dead hot young artist, and it got one in Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose working life of about nine years was truncated by a heroin overdose at the age of twenty-seven.” quote from Robert Hughes from “American Vision “ Jean-Michel Basquiat originally a graffiti art with the tag SAMO (“same old shit”), move on to canvas works and gallery exhibition. Basquiat came to personify the art scene of the 80's, with its merging of youth culture, money, hype, excess, and self-destruction http://www.artchive.com Untitled acrylic and mixed media on canvas by Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1984

19. Madonna Staunton contemporary Australian Artist born NSW 1938 Staunton is primarily a collage artist. She began to establish a reputation in this medium during the 1970s (and was represented in the Third Biennale of Sydney in 1979). The components of her two- and three-dimensional assemblages are usually drawn from old, faded and battered discards that are carefully put together in new ways and given another life. A play between randomness and precision animates virtually all Madonna Staunton's assemblage work. http://www.artlink.com.au Capital A 2006 Mixed media on board Madonna Staunton, Key (2002) cabriole chair leg, text and piano keys.