Images of Women in Art History & today: Gr11VA Theory

Artist	Sandro Botticelli
Year	c. 1486
Type	tempera on canvas
Dimensions	172.5 cm × 278.9 cm (67.9 in × 109.6 in)
Location	Uffizi, Florence

The Birth of Venus image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_Venus_(Botticelli)

Link to PPT on historical depiction of Women in Art



iomage from: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/6093122/Titian-wheeler-dealer-who-created-a-goddess.html (this article is an interesting read)


Task 1: Collect images of women based on the guidelines on Mrs Moore's blog:  women-through-ages-introduction link

Link to Mrs Moore's Gender Issues Image folder

Link to Sturgess Gender Image folder

Task 2:Link to Perspective notes

Discuss how Titian has used illusions of Space in this image.

Zama Dunywa: Grade 12 Theory

LINK TO DIGITAL WORKSHEET DUNYWA


Zama Dunywa
Ucansi / Icansi
lithograph
Image from: http://www.artthrob.co.za/06sept/listings_kzn.html

The main question about New Media Artworks is: IS IT ART OR NOT?

Answer the above question, by analysing Zama Dunywa's performance piece titled Ufanani Kimi?

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Make sure your infographic covers the following areas:

•         How has the artist used visual clues to communicate their intention. (visual clues= Imagery, materials, formal elements of art e.g. space, composition, colour)

•Context of the artwork:

 a) what is the artists doing differently to previous generations of artists? –  (this section may include some information about the innovative element of Dunywa's materials & techniques )

b) What is the cultural context of the artwork?

( this section may include some information about  significance of specific imagery, found objects, materials, as well as the cultural references in the performance)

•        Conclusion 1-2 sentences

Important links:
Link to Dunywa PDF  

Link to article on Dunywa's work by Sharlene Khan

Link to post on Red ochre

Link to post on the umemulo ceremony

Link to PPT on New Media

Zama Dunywa

Ufunani kimi?

(What do you want from me?)

(performance still)

link to Mrs Moore's blog

Gr8: Waste collection for Jewellery Sourcebook

Image from: http://www.rachelcresswell.com/portfolio/recycle.htm

Things to collect for Term 3

• coloured plastics (yoghurt lids, margerine containers etc..)
• coloured magazine paper
• needle, thread and scraps of material 
• a coca-cola product 2L
• a cooldrink can

This week we are making paper beads:

Images from: http://butikofer.com/blog/2009/03/11/making-paper-beads/
Check out Adrienne Butikofer's site for a wonderful link to a tutorial on making paper beads.

Gr 12VA WW MTDTD Self-evaluation

Link to 12VA WW form

Gr11VA Woolworths Self-evaluation

Link to 11VA Sturgess Evaluation form

Gender Issues Gr 11VA PAT 3

'YOUR CLOTHES AND HOW YOU WEAR THEM' 2011 Lesley Magwood Fraser 17.5cm x 17.5cm x 3.2cm - 'Artist's Blocks'

Link to PPT on Gender Issues

Link to Mrs Moore's introduction Post

Grade 11 Exam Feedback

 

LINK TO MEMO JUNE 11VA EXAM

Figure Drawing Grade 9

Cardboard figure No 1 by Terry Summers
Image from: http://www.terrysummers.com/drupal/node/305

Link to 2013 Post on tone for Grade 10

Epipheo & Designing Adverts for the internet

Link to Epipheo on How the internet is Changing Advertising

Uploaded on 1 Jul 2009

Epipheo Studios presents "How the Internet is Changing Advertising", a short history of communication and how the internet is a new medium that has thrown out the old rules of communication.

Learning to Consolidate Information when working online

Image from: http://www.taiji-to.org/archivio-eventi-blog/altri-blog-in-evidenza/david-gaffney/



Link to epipheo on what the internet is doing to our brains

Published on 6 May 2013

Most of us are on the Internet on a daily basis and whether we like it or not, the Internet is affecting us. It changes how we think, how we work, and it even changes our brains.

Nicholas Carr, the author of, "The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains," about how the Internet is influencing us, our creativity, our thought processes, our ideas, and how we think.

Reference: Carr, N. and Epipheo Studios, (2013). What the internet is doing to our brains. [online] YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKaWJ72x1rI [Accessed 14 Jul. 2014].