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Visual Arts
Visual Arts Matric
Matric IEB
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2021/2022
2021/2022
By Ella Friedman
, Table of contents:
◦ Question 1:
◦ Formal Elements of Art
◦ Principles of Design
◦ Question 2:
◦ Contemporary Conceptual Art - International Art
◦ Dadaism
◦ Marcel Duchamp - Bicycle Wheel
◦ Surrealism
◦ Salvador Dali - Persistence of Memory
◦ Abstract Expressionism
◦ Mark Rothko - No 3/ No 13
◦ Photo/Superrealism
◦ Chuck Close - Robert / 104072
◦ Pop Art
◦ Andy Warhol - Campbells Soup Cans
◦ Question 3:
◦ Different forms of Conceptual Art
◦ Land Art
◦ 1) Christo & Jeanne Claude - Surrounding Islands
◦ 2) Robert Smithson - Spiral Jetty
◦ Installation Art
◦ 1) Damien Hirst - Physical impossibility of death in the mind of someone living
◦ 2) Al Wei-Wei - Sunflower seeds at the Tate modern
◦ Question 4:
◦ Resistance Art
◦ 1) Penny Siopis - Still life with watermelon and other things
◦ 2) Jane Alexander - Butcher Boys
◦ 3) Norman Catherine - Discrimination
◦ 4) Paul Stopforth - The interrogators
◦ Question 5:
◦ Post Democracy
◦ 1) Jane Alexander - Stripped, of yes girl
◦ 2) Bernie Searle - Colour me series
◦ 3) Mary Sibandi - Lovers in tango
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QUESTION 1:
⇢ Identify and refer to the 7 Formal Elements of Art in relation to the artworks given *know how to define
the elements and relate in a discussion to the artworks given in the question.
• Line • Colour
• Texture • Size
• Space • Composition
• Tone/value
⇢ Identify the 10 Principles of design and relate your chosen or given principles to the question *know
how to define and relate in a discussion.
• Balance • Variety
• Unity • Rhythm
• Harmony • Emphasis
• Contrast • Repetition
• Proportion • Movement
, QUESTION 2:
⇢ Contemporary Conceptual Artworks:
‣ These works focus on the idea of the art rather than the artwork itself.
‣ The audience participates in the art whether it be visually or physical .: these works have relations to
political and cultural aspects.
‣ There are broad categories including performance, new media & installation art.
‣ Current events that are happening in society bring attention to the artwork {these works mostly relate to
current events which therefore results in attention Brough upon these events}.
‣ Materials used: every day + readymade objects.
INTERNATIONAL ART
☞ DADAIS
→Post world war 1.
→These works can be described as anti-nationalism [meaning absurdity to mock society].
→Artists don’t follow the rules, they don’t have specific guidelines, and there are no rules.
→The work aims to provoke an emotional reaction for viewers.
→The work is non-sensual.
→No main medium is used in Dadaism.
→Artists strive to create something that means nothing - these offshoots influenced current trends in society.
→The artworks were destroyed before becoming 'acceptable’ to society or seen as the norm, this gave the
artworks great value.
MARCEL DUCHAMP
BICYCLE WHEEL
◦
• Completed in1913.
• It is of a metal wheel mounted on painted wooden stool.
• The wooden stall was a readymade, everyday object thus
giving the viewer an aesthetic experience as the materials are
simple, yet complicated.
• Focus themes:
- Social, political, historical views
- Art as idea not the product itself
• A combination of 2 mass-produced objects to create a non-
functional machine.
• Mass-produced: anonymous, identical, similar.
• This work rejected artistic skill as to most works of Dadaism.
M
, ☞ SURREALIS
→Post world war 1.
→These works illustrated dreams, which were the authentic and truer reality therefore seen as 'surreal' [like
dada].
→Both the unconscious and the conscious mind were implemented to result in pure thought seen as
mysterious and questionable, drawing the viewer into the work.
→Allows drives of hunger, sexuality, anger and fear.
SALVADOR DALI
PERSISTENCE OF MEMOR
• Completed in1931.
• Oil on canvas with dreamlike landscape of melting clocks and a flesh-like
face.
• Time was represented by the melting clocks and decay of ants.
• Hard objects are limp, no hope.
• The monstrous creature in the work reprints the artists face : long eyelashes
are represented by an insect. The faces tongue oozing out the nose is
represented as a snail.
• The work is ambiguous (not specific).
• There is no defined horizon (the land connects into the sky).
• There is endless space for nothing.
• Rational (melting clocks) vs irrational (bone-like structure) juxtaposes:
opposite next to each other.
• One light source (the sun) creates a surreal atmosphere.
• Melting Clocks are normal objects yet perceived in a non-realistic way,
concluding the idea is not real yet your brain makes you think it is real.
• Themes:
- Awareness of psychology
- manifest of societal systems art
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