Syllabus
This term refers to the arrangement of visual elements in a work of art.
What is composition?
A dissident artist known for provocative, large scale, anti-establishment artworks that challenge traditions and conventions of art.
Who is Ai Weiwei?
The arrangement of animals and plants in taxonomic groups according to their observed similarities.
What is classification?
The choices, decisions and processes made by an artist, considering concepts and intentions when making their works.
What is artist's/artmaking practice?
In the process of making this artwork, Ai Weiwei produced a list of all the victims in the earthquake on his blog to communicate information and create awareness as the government censored all information so people didn’t know the details.
What is 'Remembering'?
The agencies in the artworld - artist, artwork, world and audience.
What is the conceptual framework?
A film about a renowned artist and activist who continually champions the values of democracy and human rights, and thus works in opposition to authoritarian government.
What is displacement?
Joan Ross works across forms including animation, VR, sculpture, drawing, painting, installation, using strong visual elements, juxtaposition/contrasting symbols and motifs and handmade collage aesthetic.
What are features of Joan Ross' material practice?
Using unconventional materials, this artwork consists of a vitrine cabinet displaying an imaginary waterline that challenges the viewer's preoccupation with systems of display and classification encoded in Western thinking.
What is Dead in the Water?
Through this frame, art may be thought to be about and represent a visual language as a symbolic system. From the perspective of this frame, art can be conceived as systems of communications which particular artforms, information and ideas are circulated and exchanged.
What is the Structural Frame?
This artist's bold and experimental practice investigates the legacy of colonialism in Australia, particularly in regard to its effect on Indigenous Australians.
Who is Joan Ross?
To undermine or overturn established norms, expectations, or authority, often by challenging traditional ideas and questioning societal conventions to create a new or alternative perspective.
What is subversive art?
Postmodern in her use of non-traditional media and methods of display and he way her art challenges yet involves humour; Cultural because she comments on social issues involved with colonialism, trade and world economics, her works are political as well as social comments.
What Frames are associated with Fiona Hall's Practice?
Fiona Hall's artwork Paradisus Terrestris, is a series of botanical illustrations made using this traditional printmaking technique on recycled metal.
What is etching?
Two words: The first describes objects in space as two-dimensional, whereas the other has depth, length and width, perceived as three-dimensional.
What are space and form?
From the beginning their professional practice, this artist has extended their output into a diverse range of mediums, including sculpture, installation, photography, painting and moving image.
Who is Fiona Hall?
The action of attacking or assertively rejecting cherished beliefs and institutions or established values and practices.
What is iconoclasm?
(ask as though you are asking the artist directly - include artist name)
The artist replied, "The basis of all my work is the connection and disconnection with nature, this underlying message suggests that the spiritual connection to land and the merging with nature is an imperative for the human soul and our survival."
Joan Ross, what is your conceptual practice?
The artwork depicts occupation that gives way to a deluge of material possessions and consumer durables which threaten to engulf the once unspoiled river valley, until a cleansing inundation and flood restores it to its natural state.
What is The Claiming of Things?
Through this frame, the concept of intertextuality locates agency for the production of meaning within artworks rather than in individuals, society or structures. From the perspective of this frame, artworks can be thought of as complex reconfigurations of ideas and critical practices which challenge traditional conventions, canons, values and histories of art.
What is the postmodern frame?
(phrase question to include Frame and artist name)
The family instilled an appreciation and passion for the natural environment, which informed the artist’s early works and continues to inform her current practice with growing intensity.
What is a subjective experience of Fiona Hall?
An artwork can evoke deep feelings or experiences, often associated with strong emotions or instincts. In art, a ________ reaction might be one that is immediate, instinctive, and connected to the viewer's emotional or physical response.
What is visceral?
Ai Weiwei's _______ _______ is very selective - although using readymades and everyday materials, Ai Weiwei is not interested in using the detritus of everyday life unless it resonates with meaning or has historical cultural significance.
What is Ai Weiwei's material choice?
This artwork by Ai Weiwei critiques the destructive impact from globalisation and loss of culture while paradoxically communicates the importance of retaining heritage and traditions.
What is Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn?