GoMA Excursion

On Monday the 22nd of February, all of the year 9 art classes visited the Queensland Art Gallery and the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane. In particular we looked at The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art or the APT6. The APT6 includes the work of more than 100 artists from 25 countries, including collaborations and collectives, which reflect the diversity of practices across Asia, the Pacific and Australia. Most of the artwork in this exhibition is amazing and used all unique concepts and ideas.

The picture next to this is an artwork called People Holding Flowers which was completed in 2007 by Zhu Weibing and Ji Wenyu. The materials used in this sculpture are synthetic polymer paint on resin; velour, steel wire, dacron, lodestone and cotton- 400 pieces!

Our Creative Story

"When the rain came tumbling down, cats drowned on the seat and yellow flowers are in bloom, sweet scents fill the air which is black like, the ace of spades. Her hair fell down the stairs to the window in shock of hearing all kinds of tortured noises come from the street, and the bells ringing in the chapel, a sardine never swims alone in an ocean of tuna fish but with shaking hands soothed the baby's crying empty eyes looking into the dark and show nothing but purple cats with pink horsesand purple elephants dancing in the moon light emerges through the cracks. The sounds whistling around the carousel, the children play hopscotch like fragile monkeys work together to create a large pink tent. In the summer is my favourite is my favourite season. It is so bright and I am happy, is a very joyful word. Dogs have always eaten apples this. Christmas holidays have just been and the mouse ate a cake and started singing and dancing to the music of dragonforce. The dog jumped across the ocean wearing a tutu but then an angry leprechaun came from the tunnel and lived happily ever after".

This story was made in class and all 19 of us wrote a sentence with no knowledge of what the previous sentence was. This was hard as you had to try and make the sentence flow on to the next. My sentence was "but then the angry leprechaun came from the tunnel and lived happily ever after". Our story was written while we drew our surrealism drawings so it was hard to think of something when we were concentrating on that! I enjoy tasks like this because it challenges your creativity as well as being fun and interesting. I would love to do something similar again.

Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His best known work The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931. Dali's expansive artistic repertoire includes film, sculpture and photography in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.

My Surrealism Drawing

Once again I can't work out how to rotate it but here is my attempted surrealim drawing. Our task for today's lesson was to pick two sentences at random and to combine them both into one drawing thus creating a surrealim drawing. I found this task to be quite a challenge as I hadn't done anything similar to it before. It was even harder to draw these sentences as they really didn't make much sense. The sentences were "darkness crushed and cooled by clouds" and "imbibe stinging joys with loving grace". The sentences were almost opposites which was hard.

I started off with trying to work out what I would associate with each word or phrase. The first phrase was "darkness crushed" which when I immediately saw it I thought of the sky and the moon being crushed. The 'symbol' I used for that phrase was the giant foot on top and crushing the crescent moon. When I saw "cooled by clouds" I thought of rain coming out of the cloud and onto the foot. The phrase "imbibe stinging joys" was symbolised by by wrapping barbed wire around the giant foot. "Loving grace" was represented by the red and purple, love heart shaped rain drops. The red symbolised love and the purple represented grace. I made the background of the drawing is toned from light up the top to dark down the bottom so that it showed the darkness being cooled by clouds as the rain drops hit the sky. I also created the clouds so that they were toned from light at the top to dark down the bottom. There were stars next to the moon to give more of a 'night' effect and to show more of the darkness.
I didn't really like or enjoy this task as I am not a confident drawer and I am not a very 'wordy' person. I am not a fan of drawing and I would prefer to paint or create a collage! Also I don't enjoy English (the subject) and I am not very creative in English. Although I didn't like this task, I do enjoy learning about and playing around with surrealism. I find the surrealist artists' creations quite amazing and I want to improve my surrealism drawings. Considering this is my first surrealism drawing though, it is not all that bad!

My Art Title Page

Here is my art title page (can't work out how to rotate it)! I chose to make my title page colourful/rainbow because I love bright colours as they make me feel happy and uplifted! The reason I chose to use flowers and leaves is because I love them as they are colourful (maybe not to the extreme that i drew them!) and they always have different tones to them. I also like the way i draw my flowers because I can just let my pencil flow however I want to. The font I used for my title page was just curly and flowy which shows that I like to just let my pencil flow and curl however I want.

Juxtapose

Meaning: To place to or more things together, especially in order to suggest a link between them or to emphasize the contrast between them.

Juxtaposition is used by surrealist artists to inspire unexpected and unconventional thoughts and feelings to the viewer or reader.

Rene Magritte's work frequently displays a juxtaposition of ordinary objects in an unusual context, giving new meanings to familiar things.

Andre Breton

Andre Breton was a French writer, poet and surrealist theorist. He is best known as the principal founder of surrealism. His writings include the "Surrealist Manifesto of 1924" in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism".

Surrealism became a European movement that influenced all domains of art, and called into question the origin of human understanding and human perceptions of things and events.

Surrealism

Surrealism was founded in 1924 and is a cultural movement and an artistic style. Surrealism style uses visual imagery from the subconscious mind to create a type of art with no intention of logical comprehensibility. Various surrealist artists include: Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miro, Max Ernst and Giorgio de Chirico.