The Frames
Conceptual Framework
Vocab
Art Movements
Case Studies
100

The frame which explores emotions and memories

What is the Subjective Frame?

100

Someone who visually communicates their personal experience

What is the Artist?

100

The way the artist and sitter look at each other, and the way we as viewers look at the person portrayed

What is the Gaze?

100

Movement focusing on ephemeral  effects of light, using sketchy brushstrokes and often painted en plein air or alla prima. Utilised modern technology.

What is Impressionism?

100

This artist won the 2023 Archibald Prize.

Who is Julia Gutman?

200

Artworks that make use of experimental and emerging technologies, as well as innovative or alternative uses of existing technology.

What is the Post-Modern Frame?

200

An artefact that represents the ideas and beliefs of a time and place?

What is Artwork?

200

Using pre-existing objects or images in their art with little transformation of the original

What is appropriation?
200

An art movement which explores how the image of reality is distorted in order to make it expressive of the artist’s inner feelings or ideas.

What is Expressionism?

200

This Indigenous Artist uses their media to explore opaque narratives and transparent truths of Australian History

Who is Yhonnie Scarce?

300

Using Visual Language - the way meaning is communicated in a visual artwork through its visual qualities as well as signs, symbols and codes.

What is the Structural Frame?

300

The general public, who react differently to a critic or historian

What is the Audience?

300

Identify components and the relationship between them.

What is analyse?

300

This movement was instigated by the Catholic Church, and blended emotion and drama with colour, contrast and realism.

What is Baroque?

300

This artist worked repairing and restoring medieval and Renaissance tapestries

Who is Louise Bourgeois?

400

Artworks that explore human relationships with the environment, and human impacts on the environment

What is the Cultural Frame?

400

Includes the beliefs and conventions of society and historic events

What is the World?

400

The act of working together with individuals from different artistic disciplines or even non-artistic fields

What is collaboration?

400

Art movement in which artists fight for gender equality, confronting social expectations. Used a wide range of approaches including painting, performance and crafts.

What is Feminist Art?

400

A quote from this artist reads “I found the possibility of integrating my political awareness with sculpture.”

Who is Doris Salcedo?

500

Diversity and representation – refers to the way a diverse range of social groups are represented and have agency in the world/artworld. Can also refer to art historical investigations that re-examine artists and artworks from the past using ideas and perspectives from the present.

What is the Post-Modern Frame?

500

Personal experiences influence the interpretation of the work

Who is the Audience?

500

A work that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one

What is an Allegory?

500

Art that can only be created in some part through the aid of digital technology.

What is Post-Human Art?

500

The man who launched a Cultural Revolution in 1966

Who is General Mao?