Art 2020

Inspirational Photos for Art board

Panels 

Pictures

Plan for my art board panels

Classics

Here are some of my notes

on the Alexander the Great documentary.



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Hulk VS Herakles


https://infograph.venngage.com/ps/0AIet0dRnvg/a-brief-timeline

Art 2020

L3 English

Quentin Tarantino - Read and discuss:

Best writing so far - Blurbs:

Wesley Morris on the film’s unique taxonomy:

“Set in 1853, this isn’t a runaway narrative. It’s a run-toward narrative, rigged for shock. Each scene lays a stick of dynamite and lights a fuse that runs down and down and down until the whole thing blows up like the Fourth of July. I’ve never seen anything like this movie, not in one 165-minute sitting, not from a single director, not made with this much conscientious bravado and unrelenting tastelessness — this much exclamatory kitsch — on a subject as loaded, gruesome, and dishonourable as American slavery.” -  Uses a metaphor that could be linked to the end of the film, like a spoiler. -Adjectives!

Film Analysis - Psychology Today.

The film Django is a spaghetti-style western mixed with a slave revenge fantasy. Some have been triggered by the language used, N-word. Saying that it is  "disrespectful to his ancestors”. However, Tarantino says 'actually it highlights the horrors of slavery more than the film’s humour.' in Psychology Today.

"Darwin’s theory - inherently selfish and willing to do whatever it takes to compete effectively and to keep fit enough to stay in power. - According to Freud, your innate desire is to reap the greatest pleasure from living, by gaining an upper hand on people and circumstance. -   Dr King Schultz, and black slave Django, whom Schultz recently freed: Schultz wants the financial reward of killing outlaws and Django wants to rescue his wife Brunhilde (Kerry Washington) from slavery. But, the two are better fit together, than either is alone. Schultz needs Django’s passion and brawn, as much as Django needs Schultz’ intellect and wit, to meet their goals. So, they strike a compromise to satisfy their desires. Django bounty hunts with Schultz for six months, in return for which Schultz will help Django to free his wife from slavery."

"There are many examples of Darwin's and Freud's theory of human nature, in this movie. Tarantino gets us to consider the features of human beings that make them most fit to survive. Is it brawn as depicted in Mandingo fighting? Or, is it ingenuity and intellect, like Dr Schultz, that helps us to survive? Or, perhaps, love and passion is the best expression of human nature and that which helps us to thrive (Django and Brunhilde)? Dr Schultz' evolution of character informs us as to where Tarantino falls on this matter."

"You cannot live healthily or happily by living solely to satisfy your own needs. This is what Schultz discovered by freeing Django. He discovered in himself desires that were greater than material reward. Django's burning desire to rescue his wife Brunhilde from slavery, at all costs, gave Schultz hope in something greater than himself. This is what unchained Schultz from a survival of the fittest mentality and allowed him to start living by his deeper principles."
https://www.psychologytoday.com/nz/blog/get-hardy/201301/django-unchained-film-analysis

Directors Influence
Blaxploitation - Is a type of subgenre of film that originated from the United States; has big numbers of stereotypical characters with bad/questionable motives; roles of criminals etc.

"As the hero of the film, Django Freeman is a twenty-first-century version of a Blaxploitation protagonist. An unapologetic African-American hero who seeks justice against racist white overlords, also corrupt collaborators like Stephen. " 

-  https://www.gradesaver.com/django-unchained/study-guide/directors-influence

Planning for directors styles.

How would you characterise Stanley Kubrick’s style as a director? Consider camera movements, setting, mood, editing, camera shots, music, dialogue, etc. Use outside sources to help you write a paragraph answer and post to your blogs with references.

Dramatic and drawn out, raw.  More realistic feel. Can relate? Dark and abstract. - uses wide-angle shots and symmetrical shots to add more menacing and scary. - Forcing them to pay attention. Disturbing, political messages. - Perfectionist

Why would Luhrmann be called the anti-Kubrick? Use outside sources to help you write a paragraph answer and include references. Add to your post.

Sharp and straight to the point, chaotic. Unrealistic. Unique style. Bright and bold. Controlled chaos. High saturation to almost look fake. Tragic romances. - dreamy quality. - spoiled his endings at the beginning. - heightened reality.

Character Strengths and Questions 

Hope 

 1) What are the conditions that have led you to be hopeful in your life?

I was raised that way. - I like to imagine a good future whilst focusing on the present. Is there any point on focusing on the bad when there could be a good/ better outcome that you can come to/ work towards to.


 2) How do you balance what is realistic and what is unrealistic in terms of your expression of hope and optimism? 

By planning things out and making timetables- Is it doable? Time management!! If I can work towards it and put in the work then usually it is realistic. 


 3) What role does hope play during challenging times in your life? How do you express hope at those times?

That there is always a positive side to something. Sometimes it's just harder to see. Seeing different perspectives and challenges differently to me can be very helpful to help myself and others. 

Gratitude 

 1) What circumstances make it most likely you will experience gratitude? What circumstances make it most likely you will express gratitude?

After being helped or offered help, for being loved and taught. Also good advice and new experiences.

 2) Are there people to whom you have not adequately expressed gratitude, as an oversight or intentionally holding it back (e.g., family, friends, co-workers, mentors, community members)? If so, why?

Not really that I can think of. Maybe, Someone higher up than me in a job that is highly respected. He/She doesn't need that confirmation of gratitude from me.

 3) To what degree do you express gratitude to others out of a deep feeling of appreciation as opposed to social convention?

For close family and friends, I express on a more personal level of gratitude. I trust them and they trust me. Things can be said and done that, to me, feel I am more connected to them and they will appreciate the gratitude that I give.

Fairness 

 1) How is your strength of fairness expressed at work, at home, and in the community?

Everyone is different, everyone has a different way of doing things. - Different strengths etc, why not bring that to the table and make others weakness stronger etc.


 2) In what situations have you received feedback that you have acted unfairly? How did you handle the situation?

Try and see that persons perspective and why they may think I acted Unfairly. Find a solution to the problem/situation.


 3) How do you reconcile your sense of fairness with the reality that “life is not fair”?

It's just the way things go. Make something good out of it. But it's good to have an opinion on it.

Media Studies

Art 2019

22/10/19

So after going back to my plan and looking through it. I've come up with, what I think as a better Idea for all three of my art boards. 

All of the panels will have a New Zealand theme to show New Zealand! The first panel will be of New Zealand Landscapes (Plants). The second would be Animals, Sheep, Native birds etc. The last panel would be New Zealand people and culture.

Throughout the panel I would like to include shapes through the center of each panel that would go with the theme New Zealand and with each panel. For example, Maori patterns. 

Friday 27th of September 

Photos i'm going to edit now....a-lot more portrait instead of landscapes that would give more variety on my art board. Lots of water (Ocean) as-well!!

One photo I took in Queenstown.

I would like to, over the holiday, get more photographs of the Mountains and Hills to get a higher up perspective and also a very low, to the ground, perspective as-well. As I already feel i have everything in-between I may need. I already have around 30 pictures. If I could come to the 50 picture mark to put on my board, that would be amazing!

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I want to tell the story of New Zealand landscapes through horizon lines in photography; where the horizon lines on each picture link to each other. From the tallest point to the lowest and everything in between, the seasons, natural disasters, life in New Zealand through my Artwork.

28/08/2019

What I would also like to try and do is to get the start of the art folio in the Mountains then as we go down the chain off photos as the days pass the seasons will change and the photos will change through seasons but also through height. The pictures will start from the Mountains and the will end in the ocean with a sunset, just as the 'day' or start of the art board will start with a sunrise over the mountains. This will hopefully not only look good but show the true reality of what New Zealand is. I would like to have enough photos to start editing by the end of term 3.

- I would like to think this chain of photographs like a huge panorama. To do this I may need to get a higher up perspective of the landscapes etc.

02/08/2019 - Here are some pictures that I have taken over the course of the year that i'm going to be editing for my art board next year. They have been taken over the last couple of months outside of school; mostly when I went on holiday to Queenstown in July. I tried to match them together by joining their horizon lines from each picture together to make them seem connected in way that seems everything is linked together and is interconnected; the Earth and New Zealand.

So I plan to find enough photos to make a long enough chain to figure out what my final plan is and what I'm going to do editing wise and what other photos I may need.

30/07/2019

Mountains to plains to ocean.

• Blurriness, foggy lens look to add to the uncertainty of what New Zealand is at the start of the art board; to high sharpness/clarity that signifies the clarity and purity of New Zealand.
• Colours/tones change with pictures, which could signify the seasons that change through the chain of connected pictures and what New Zealand looks like year round.
• Sunrise/sunsets at the start and end of the art board like years have passed through these photos, but when you look at them it looks as though inly one day has gone by.
  
  Other ideas:
• Natural grain? - Raw and Pure, rather than being heavily edited?! - option?
• A lot going on and then becoming more minimalistic.

So I would link the horizon lines of these pictures together.

Monday 10th of June 

Here are some more that I have edited to be blurry for my artboard.

Friday 31st of May

Touched base with my Art History for a couple of lessons, just about finished on my Sally Mann art history piece and have started on my second art history person, Walker Evans and the photograph 'Child in backyard' from 1932. Here's some screenshots screenshot!

Just started :)

Thursday - 16/05/19

It's been a while since it showed you what I've been up to for my art board. Ive been planning for a different Why for my Art board; landscapes in New Zealand using their horizon lines to connect to each other and to New Zealand itself. Here are some pictures I've been playing around with for my art board.

Friday - 15/3

The last two weeks I've started planning my first panel for my art-board. All there panels, here are some photos of the planning I did in the last couple of lessons;

 I wanted to do something to do with time, where the photographs I take will be throughout the 19th, 20th and 21st century using some of the techniques they used to document a teenagers life and through young woman and their person lives and how it would be portrayed in different centuries.

So now all I have to figure out is how to get the effect of an 1800 style photograph using either Lightroom or photoshop to get the texture just right to make it look perfect. (Daguerreotype )



Friday - 22/2

Art history

Sally Mann is a Daguerreotype photographer and has won many awards for her work. She is most known from her large-format, black and white, photographs of her children and landscapes.

The Photograph that I'm going to be studying for art history. The photograph is called 'The Damaged Child'. The photograph is of a child, Sallys daughter Jessie in 1984. It shows her with a damaged face and fuffy eye looking directly at the camera.

The photograph was apart of the begun series in 1984.

Friday - 8/2

So the last couple of days Ive been looking into different photography types;

Cinematography - Cinematography is basically the art of photography and camera work while making films, documentaries, commercials, etc.


Photograms -  A photogram is technically a photographic print made by laying objects onto photographic paper and exposing it to light, in a dark room, to make a photograph without a camera.

Daguerreotype -  A Daguerreotype is a unique image on a silvered copper plate that was the first successful photographic process during the 1840s to 1860s. The images were usually of people that could afford to be photographed and of landscapes/architecture.



Thursday - 7/2

This year I am doing Year 13 Photography. Here is my brainstorm of what I'm thinking of doing; my WHY!

At this point in time, I am leaning more towards a documentary style. For example 'a day in the life'.

Some of them are; to document people in Christchurch city (strangers), To follow one person around for a day, to take photos that look like were taken decades ago, and more.

I have also found some ARTEST MODELS that would like to use to incorporate in my work and possibly for my art history internal.

Walker Evans

Diane Arbus

Alec Soth

Sally Mann

Art - 2018

21/02/2018 - Wednesday

This week I have chosen my art history piece. It is from one of my three artists, his name is Jim Dine.

The piece I am studying is called the Jewish heart, 1982.

Here is a picture:


We are to do two artists, I have only chosen one so far. But I was thinking of doing another piece from one of my other three names.


Yesterday we started drawing/ planning our folio. We had to think about the series and sequences in out work too.

 For my theme Uneqiness and personality, celebration, my plan ending up turning out like this:









9/8/18 - Monday

Three names:

Christine Webster:

Born in Pukekohe Auckland 1958.
Her photography is based on fiction. It is unsettling with its probing into society’s accepted boundaries(which look scary in a way).
Her interest lies in working with others to explore the human psyche – people’s different personae, fantasy, identity, gender stereotypes and sexuality.

Ans Westra:

Ans was born in the Netherlands in Leiden in 1936 28th of April. She left the Netherlands for New Zealand in 1957. She is a self-taught New Zealand photographer with an interest in Maori. Her art was amplified in 1964 by one of her pieces called Washday at the par (book). Here is a picture:

12/8/18

Jim Dine:

He was born June 16, 1935 in cincinnati Ohio.

He is a pop artist, and he is sometimes considered part of the Neo-Dada movement( a movement with audio, visual and literary manifestations that had similarities in method or intent with earlier Dada artwork).

I have also noticed he likes hearts.

7/2/18 - Wednesday

Brainstorm

Very excited to get started with art this year. I will be doing NCEA this year so it is going to be challenging but fun and exciting. I hope this year I will complete everything to the best I can with hopefully a excellence.

To start the year we did a brain storm about trying to find our Why. Here is mine:

Looking forward to art, can't wait to start :)