Unreal Art Narratives

Stage 3 Term 2

Visual Arts Program

                                             Mondrian, Piet Gray Tree 1911 Oil on canvas

                                              Mondrian, Piet Avond (Evening); Red Tree 1908 Oil on canvas

Elisabeth Cummings

Night Into Day •

Elisabeth (Liz) Cummings(born 1934)Fallen Tree

Task 1 Art AppreciationYvonne Audette, Dream of an ancient tablet

In pairs:

Discuss the types of materials and implements the artist may have used to create the work.

Discuss possible meanings for the title of the work.

Identify the main symbols that Audette has used in her work.Consider the work as a system of signs or symbols that communicate meaning.

Select some of the symbols and brainstorm possible meanings for each symbol.

Create a verbal narrative based on an interpretation of the symbols. You will present this story to the class.

Task 2 Making paintings using symbols

Think of a dream you have had.

What was the colour and detail like?

How are dreams different to reality?

In your VAD: Recall a dream and draw some images from it.

Your ‘Unreal Art Narrative’

Create frottages by rubbing oil pastel on paper over textured surfaces in the playground to tell an ‘Unreal’ dream.

Use a skewer to scratch through the pastel, etching personal symbols onto the surfaces.

Layer washes of diluted acrylic paint over the surfaces. Collage and glue strips of text based upon your dream over the work.

Sample Frottages

Sample Frottages

Art Appreciation

• Describe Michael Johnson’s After Sirius to a friend who cannot see the work. Concentrate on colour, line and texture.

Would you consider this to be an abstract work?Why?What do you think the artist is saying in this work?Why did the artist choose these colours?Discuss the scale of the work and the relevance of the title.Discuss possible implements used by the artist to apply

paint.Brainstorm a list of possible new titles for the work.

Michael Johnson (Australia, b.1938)After Sirius  1987-1988

Title : Water Lilies

Technique : Oil on canvas

Year :1907

Artist:Claude Monet

Flower Dreamingsynthetic polymer paint on canvas

Emily Kngwarreye: Aboriginal Artist

“Earth Creation" by late central Australian artist Emily Kngwarreye.1995

YOUR TASK: What is the story in this artwork?Record in your draft book.