🎨Art-Tagul

I have learnt a new digital art genre which I enjoy making, my classmates do too!. This art is called Tagul. I have used words that describe me best and inserted a picture of myself, with the words filling in the picture, if you get what I mean?. To make things easier for you too understand, here is what I created.

Actual photo I used

Summer Learning Journey-Day 15-Week 3

Day 15 – Art History

It’s the final day of Week 3 and you are feeling more and more comfortable in the country. You decide that you would now like to learn a bit more about the people and the history of your country so you spend the day exploring the art galleries and museums. There are so many different options to choose from! You decide to start with the local art gallery before moving on to see the national history museum.

Activity 1

When you walk into the local gallery, the first piece of artwork that you see is a painting by Wassily Kandinsky called ‘Swinging.’

http://www.wassilykandinsky.net/work-251.php

While you are looking at it, a staff member at the gallery comes up to you and asks you for your opinion of the painting. What do you think of it?

On your blog please tell us:

1. What do you think of this painting? Do you like it?

I love this painting and I love abstract art. I think that it’s quite hard to figure out what the painter is disguising. The shapes and colours are magnificent.

2. If you could buy it and give it to someone, who would you choose?

I would keep it. A great piece of art like this would look amazing on my bedroom wall ;).

If it was me, I would give it to my sister because she really likes bright, bold colours and abstract pictures.

Activity 2

After exploring the gallery you decide to walk across the street to the national museum. It is an amazing place! There is so much information about the history of the country in this museum. It’s hard to know where to start!

After walking for a little while you come across a display with pictures of children that were taken in 1901 (over 100 years ago)! In this picture, the children are working on a local farm, milking cows. They are not going to school. Back in those days, children usually went to school until they reached the age of 12 or 13. They then left school and went to work. Imagine that you were alive 100 years ago. How would you feel if you had to leave school at the age of 12? Would you be happy or sad? On your blog, tell us how you would feel.

I would feel quite happy but empty. I wouldn’t have as much stress on my shoulders than usual. But I would miss the encouraging vibes from my peers and teachers. But if I stopped going school I wouldn’t be as energetic, happy and full of life. Though 100 years ago, there was a low amount of people working.

Bonus Activity

In New Zealand we have many museum and galleries. One of the largest is called the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa or ‘Te Papa’ for short. Inside Te Papa there is a huge exhibition called ‘Gallipoli - The Scale of our War.’ It has information about a special battle, the Battle of Gallipoli, that took place during World War I. Many New Zealanders took part and many lost their lives.

The battle started on 25 April 1915. We commemorate this battle every year by celebrating Anzac Day on 25 April. Visit the Gallipoli website. It will give you lots of information about this famous battle. On your blog, tell us three things that you learned about the battle.

• White flags were used to divide the No man's land. They dried to bury their dead men on the side of it but the decomposing bodies fell apart
• There were protests like Barrism and the Great Depression
• More than 850 men died in the battle for Chanuk Bair, and only eight bodies were identified

Abstract Art🖌

Abstract art was created in the 19 centuries from Europe. Abstract art used to be painting of real things such as people, animals. But the artists were sick of painting real things and decided to paint using variety of colour and shape. Abstract now and back then are disguised images of objects or people.

This artist has a very unique style of show casing his art work and sculptures. 

Kadar Brock

Kadar Brock is an New York artist. He layers Canvases with paint then sands objects down to make holes in the canvas. The outcome of his paintings are crusty and worn out layers of  paint. He gets this inspiration from Dungeons, dragons and magic car games. His art is displayed in all sorts of Magazines. 

https://www.artsy.net/article/francesca-gavin-10-new-artists-to-watch-in-abstract-painting

Sandhi Schimmel

Earlier this year 2 other classmates and myself had built a mosaic art piece based on this artist, Sandhi Schimmel. The art piece we had made was a pac man themed mosaic. Here is some background information on the artist.

Background of Artist

Name:Sandhi Schimmel

Date of birth/ death:

D.O.B-1954

Education: did she study at an art school?

No, she studied at a normal school

Sandhi started drawing in her bedroom and spent her professional art creating murals.

Where are they from?

Sandhi was born in New York but grew up in Richmond VA.

What influences their artwork?

Sandhi was influenced by things she saw when she traveled. She was also inspired by the obsessions of beauty

What style of art do they create?

Sandhi creates murals and mosaics.

What is unique about their artwork?

Sandhi creates mosaics of women using a unique style.

What are some of their most famous pieces?

Her most famous mosaic pieces are called Gemini, Noise, Peor es Nada and What’s in a face.

Art Quotes🎨

Art is not really my subject at school. But it is for others. I'm not really good at art but I am inspired by art.


https://davidmcdonoughblog.wordpress.com/tag/art-quotes/


http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_art.html
http://geniusquotes.org/tag/art-quotes-images/

















http://quotesgram.com/quotes-by-artists-about-art/

Art🎨🎭

Todays art session was all about Cook island patterns. I had drawn a Hibiscus which is a type of flower. Others have drawn beautiful patterns and plants. I was very impressed with Linda Kiki's work because she had drawn a turtle with all sorts of patterns. It looked magnificent.


https://www.pinterest.com/bonniekea/cook-island-culture/

Fascinating Digital Art Work

Today I enjoyed doing art with Mrs. Raj, we used Sumo Paint to create digital art work. I drew my own unique flower with red and black lily pads surrounding the flower. I also created another flower which represents my heart and my favourite colours all combined. I used contrasting colours and made my picture beautiful.