Directing your own ideas:

We are at a point of the year, when you get to direct your own learning. particularly in relation to upcoming PBL.

Last week you were asked to come up with a brainstorm on "what do you care about?"

It is a crazy, broad, open question...

Artists always have a message. Sometimes the message is boring to you, but to someone else. sometimes it is too intense for you, but not for someone else. sometimes you just like it or you don't.

Art is like having a conversation with your own head. You think, you discuss, you answer back, you agree or disagree or slightly one or the other. You can be moved by Art, but you don't need to tell anyone why, so it's a private conversation.

It is a very brave thing for an artist to put their side of the conversation out there for you to be with. you wont necessarily 'get' it all. That is ok, the artist will never get your response, unless you directly go and tell them!

 We start with the WHY.

Why do you want to make Art?

9 BR recap

Stylisation

• Art Nouveau

• Kowhaiwhai

• Beatriz Milhazes

You should have a beautiful research page done and in your folders that I can check off.

There are things you should be noticing about both art movements and the artist chosen;

• forms are simplified, curves are amplified. 
• geometry, pattern and repetition all strongly feature in all 3
• there is no real use of three-dimensional space in any of these

Specific to each; Kowhaiwhai

- regulated circular curves

- principles of mathematics are employed exactlingly; rotation, scale, reflection, repetition, pattern

- the pattern, scale and proximity of the forms help to convey a story, whakapapa, or even emotion

Specific to Art Nouveau

- dominant tell-tale form is called a whiplash

- all derived from plant forms

- detail is more important than kowhaiwhai

Specific to Beatriz Milhazes

- patterns and forms are over-layed

- intersecting forms are a strong feature

- colour and layers of colour/texture are a feature

- composition is tightly balanced and intense

Research drawing and research for Manga

We have pretty much finished up with drawing for Manga, but a lot of you still have some research work to complete your lovely pages off with. Here are the notes from the whiteboard.  And below them are the photos I took of some of your work from last Friday. Looking pretty good 9hl :-)

White board research notes for you written component; handwritten onto your research pages please, not copied and pasted onto a doc. Please make sure you write down the websites you used as well, on your page.