12VA: Artists Inspired by African Art Forms

From Mrs Moore's blog...
Deborah Bell - Art influenced by Africa

For my Grade 12s ..........

Theme:

‘South African artists influenced by African and/or indigenous art forms ’

Deborah Bell's belief system places her very firmly in an African world view. She believes that she is part of those who have gone before.
She says of her images .....

"It is as if I made them before: as if I had been them before."

Her Journey Pot IV is a good example for this theme.

Journey Pot IV 1999

Link to Mrs Moore's presentation on Deborah Bell

Link to my Nesta Nala infographic 
- Nala is a traditional Zulu ceramic artist.

Construct your own infographic on this information, using the guidelines you learnt last year. You will need about 300 words divided into chunks. (+/- 5 chunks) You will also need extra diagrams and colour sketches.

Suggested chunks:

• Illustrated Data 
• Intention about Africa & Influences from Africa
• Materials and techniques of Africa
• Some elements and principles emphasizing the African connection! 
• Symbolism influenced by Africa

You may like to answer these questions in your chunks.....

1.How does this pot improve the status of women?

2.Discuss the sacred and social nature of pots in South Africa.

3.How does this pot both recognize the past  and stand for the future?
4.How are these materials used?

Terracotta (kiln & pit fired); 
Fat & wax; Charcoal; Wire; Graphite; Kiln cement

5.How does this differ from Nala’s use of some of these materials?

Link to Mrs Moore's Post with some other examples of Deborah Bell's work

12VA Self-evaluation: Our Land Sourcebook

Link to Sourcebook Self- Evaluation Form

!!VA & 12VA: Editing Images on Photoshop

Here is a lovely example of digital experimentation by Jade Russell in Grade 12 2015. 

I will add some screenshots on how Jade created a similar image.

Link to Jade's Print screens of her process

Research & Tutorial links

Some Interesting Photoshop Experiments could be:

-  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; Remember to take screenshots of your process work for your Sourcebook)

Please note that each version is different but here are some links to screenshots PPTs 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

11VA: Ceramic Self-evaluation And Our Land

Lesson Plan 9/2:

Please Login to your GAFE  account and complete  the evaluation form.

Link to Self-evaluation form

You can also start the our land project the brief has been shared with you and is posted on your classroom page, as well as the intranet site.

12VA: Theory: Theme 2: Artists Inspired by African Art Forms: Mapungubwe

Mapungubwe National Park buildings
- an example of an ‘eco-friendly’ sustainable architectural design influenced by Ancient Africa
Architect: Abre Crafford
Client: SANParks

Link to Presentation on Mapungubwe

Link to Mapungubwe Infographic

link to notes on Mapungubwe

Use this infographic to write an essay.
Write an essay (approx. 350 words) entitled ' Mapungubwe - an African Architecture'.

Deadline:


Criteria:
Content & relevance to theme (20)

Style - paragraphs, punctuation, spelling (5)

NB! You may not copy Mrs Moore’s wording or the internet sources, as you need to demonstrate your own understanding in your written work. You could make your work more original by including some research on Peter Rich’s Interpretive Centre.

Transitioning to Google Sites

Image: "There's always room for more"- photo courtesy of Shena Macdonald.

To all my followers and students,
I am definitely still posting content to the web, but I have added some new formats.

DGHS learners' content will be hosted on our school's intranet:

I have set up my Grade 8 and 9 classess content at: https://sites.google.com/a/dghs.co.za/art-dept---grades-8-9/

And my Grade 11 and 12's classes content at: https://sites.google.com/a/dghs.co.za/art-department/

I have also set up Google Classrooms with learners assignments.

Link to PPT on joining Google Classroom as a pupil
Link to PPT on opening Classroom in Drive

Class Codes for Classroom are as follows:

Grade 9K   2yu91h1

Grade 9O  s5w7a2

Grade 9S     gk7wf7i

Grade 11 r1liavf

Grade 12 4eefca

The intranet art pages are public, but the calendars are only open people with a DGHS GAFE domain login.

This term the Grade 8's are learning about Ndebele Inspired Fashion Designers (Link )

and the Grade 9's are learning about Beautiful people (Link)

The Grade 11's are working on two Practical Briefs ( African ceramic animals and Our land: Personal Geographies) (link) as well as Art and Politics in theory (Link)

The Grade 12's are working on Our Land as their practical theme (Link)
and Art and Politics for theory (link)


You can also view my work on my website: https://sites.google.com/site/shelannasturgess/
Some of the sections are still growing :-)

I will add a section soon with links to all of my art practical tips soon. 

Happy viewing!