MESSAGES

THROUGH ART
Visual and media arts band 5-6
Teal Vitler
 Analyse art with out judgement
Identify themes and messages in art
Identify materials and techniques; the purpose of using specific
materials
The significance of display on communicating meaning
 Application of explored art techniques and strategies
Analysis (non-judgemental) of art work
Understanding of messages and meaning in art

Completed assessment at a pass or higher result

 For your assessment you will be:
Creating a mixed media sculpture
It must express a personal view about a social issue and communicate meaning
through display
Responding
Explain HOW IDEAS ARE REPRESENTED IN MEDIA SCULPTURES in your art and art you
have viewed
You will also describe the artworks and practices from different cultures, times and
places have influenced your art making.
Art: Making meaning
What is the purpose of art?

What art works and artists do

you know ? What is there art
type?
 Mixed media sculpture?
Art that uses more than
one medium; combines
various traditionally distinct
visual art media.
Examples of media include: Architecture
Ceramics Craft Drawing Design
Painting Photography Public art
Sculpture Anime Computer art
Filmmaking Printmaking. And so many
more
SOCIAL
7. of or relating to the life,
welfare, and relations of
human beings in a
community: social
problems.
JUSTICE
noun 1. the quality of being just; righteousness,
equitableness, or moral rightness: to uphold the justice of
a cause.
2. rightfulness or lawfulness, as of a claim or title; justness
of ground or reason: to complain with justice.
3. the moral principle determining just conduct.

Social justice ISSUES

issues
noun 1. the act of sending out or putting forth;
promulgation; distribution: the issue of food
and blankets to flood victims.
2. something that is printed or published and
distributed, especially a given number of a
periodical: Have you seen the latest issue of
the magazine?
3. something that is sent out or put forth in any
form.
SOCIAL JUSTICE ISSUES

Poverty (lacking access to food, clean water, and

shelter)
Death Penalty.
Environmental Rights (racism)
Access to Health Care.
Heterosexism.
Labor Laws.
Civil Rights (racism and sexism)
Access to Education
Global warming
Environment destruction
MAKING MEANING
Art 1: The Ghost nets
Workshop participants at St Pauls Village on Moa Island. Picture by Dennis Newie.
 Make 5 groups and
together explore your
allocated reading.
Well known ghost net artist Nancy Nawwi (pictured in
red) from Darnley Island very graciously devoted a lot
of time to working on the fish. Photo by Greg Adams
Ghost net art by Sue Ryan
The Museum
has
purchased
Gur Atkamlu
(Sea
Blanket), a
work by
Indigenous
artists from
Darnley
Island Arts
Centre (Erub
Erwer Meta).
MATERIALS AND
FEATURES
Clues to reading art
Write a paragraph
comparing these two
art works.

- Explain the ideas

represented
- How the artists
convey those ideas
- The medias used
 History

http://www.artcadeonline.com/art_items/images/20051221444832L.jpg
http://www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au/cms/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Founding-web.jpg
 https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/
en/collection/AK-RAK-1990-1

Asia

India
 YOUR TURN TO
EXPERIMENT USING
MATERIALS!
APPLICATION
Tjanpi Desert Weavers
 Start work on your
assessment booklet and
art work
DISPLAY
 https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/
en/collection/AK-RAK-1990-1
SHARE ART WORK
AND CONTINUE
DEVELOPMENT
Use computer program such as
word or photo viewer to alter a
photograph of your sculpture.
Experiment with saturation, colour,
brightness, sharpness. Also use
boarders to frame your image
appropriately.