11VA: Our Land Project

Jess Forster's example of blending landscapes and faces...

Dear Gr11s,
Your sourcebook needs the following content:

Photos:

1) Photo Album of Landscapes (at least 5)
2) Photo Album of Faces (at least 5)

Drawing Experiments:

3) Time magazine drawing
4) Michelangelo drawing

Digital Experiments:

5) Photoshop screen shots of:
-  layers
- opacity
-blending modes
-composition
- filters
(You can use the following programs for your experiments: Pixlr, Photoshop elements, Photoshop touch, Photoshop express or Adobe Photoshop)


Please note that each version is different but here are some screenshots to remind you:

 Link to screenshots of blending mode on Photoshop on Mrs Sturgess's computer
Photoshop cut-out tutorial
Screenshots of Gaussian blur on Photoshop
link to using Adobe bridge to prove your photos originality

Pixlr Screenshots:

Using blending modes on pixlr

By Thursday the 30 of October you must have printed an A4 image of your final composition for your teacher to check.

After exams and during Term 1 in 2015 we will add:

6) Mindmap of ideas
7) Thumbnails, final intention etc...

12VA: New Media Revision

New Media: Link to Revision PPT


“He got game”, Robin Rhode, 2000 
Image from: http://rebelart.net/watchlist-16-robin-rhode/00154/

Dear Grade 12's your textbook PPt has been updated... Good Luck For Monday!!

Link to Theory Textbook 2014

Remember you are answering Questions 2, 3, 5, 6 & 7 in the final exam. Also study 3 artists for each theme in case on of the unseen examples is an artist  we have studied this year!

9VA: Detecting Visual Clues

Click on the link below for some clues to interpreting this artwork....
Link to Victor Presentation

You will be creating an infographic report on your findings and this research activity will be tested in your November exams ;-)

Grade 8 Exam

Dear Grade 8's,

Your exams are fast approaching...Here is what you need to study for the Creative Arts Exam.

Section 1 : Chris De Beer and the izimbadadas ( We will work on this research activity next week): 20 Marks

Section 2: Create a Sourceook page: 15 marks

Section 3 : Word Doodle on what is is to be South African: 20 marks

Good luck and happy studying!

12VA understanding Theme 6 And Wim Botha PPT

 Theme 6 - Post-democratic Identity in South Africa (including issues of language, ethnicity, globalization, urbanization in the new South Africa)

Link to PPT explaining concepts and terminology for Theme 6


Wim Botha, ‘Mieliepap Pieta’, 2004

A life-sized mirrored replica of Michaelangelo’s original modelled in maize meal and epoxy resin.

Image from: http://spierartcollection.com/img/content/articles/artists/4/Mieliepap-Pieta-(2004)-by-Wim-Botha.jpg 

Link to PPT on Wim Botha





The Levin Institute (The State University of New York), points out that "although there is no consensus on the consequences of globalization on national cultures, many people believe that a people’s exposure to foreign culture can undermine their own cultural identity."

Link to ijusi exhibition KZNSA blogpost

11VA Our Land T4 Theme

Link to plan for Matric Art Exams

11VA: Manet- The Father of Impressionism

Dejeuner sur l’herbe (The Picnic) 1863

Bar at the Folies Bergiere

1882

Manet was the father of impressionism...

Identify the visual clues in the images above that illustrate the following characteristics of Impressionism:

• Disintegration of the form in light and atmosphere
• Loose brushstrokes to disintegrate the form and create optical blending
• The invention of the camera in 1840 and the shift from religious and royal subject to documentation of everyday life.

Link to Realism Presentation

“Manet’s figures are dissolved in light” - explain this statement in paragraph, using the visual clues and characteristics that you have identified in Manet's artworks. 

Link to Essay writing document example