Learning Intention: to explain how Aboriginal dot painting uses art conventions to convey meaning.
Success Criteria:
- I can identify the features of Aboriginal dot painting.
- I can explain what symbols in Aboriginal dot painting mean.
- I can identify how the artist has used mediums such as, colour, pattern, space, and texture to convey meaning.
- I can create my own dot painting that uses symbols and art conventions to tell a story.
The defining criteria for a dot painting is the technique used - that it is produced by repeated imprints of a paint covered brush, dotting stick or other implement onto the surface of the painting.
Symbols were used in order to show the presence of different things or objects that existed around them.
Unlike the well-known artists you've studied, Aboriginal artists created their works based on how the land was created,
basing their subject matter mainly on patterns and animals.
Symbols were used in order to show the presence of different things or objects that existed around them.
Unlike the well-known artists you've studied, Aboriginal artists created their works based on how the land was created,
basing their subject matter mainly on patterns and animals.
This painting is an example of a dot design painting. From far away the eye cannot see that the lines are hundreds of dots together. This painting represents a central meeting location in the centre where the swirled circle is. The lines that run parallel along if are rivers or some sort of waterway. All of the little groups of u shaped objects scattered around are meeting circles of a group.
Learning Intention: to be able to explain what art conventions abstract art uses to convey meaning.
Success Criteria:
- I can identify the features of Abstract art.
- I can identify how the artist has used mediums such as, colour, pattern, space, and shape to convey meaning.
- I can create my own abstract painting that uses colour, pattern, space and line to create meaning.
Abstract art is a style developed during the 19th Century that breaks away from drawing art as it is represented in real life. Abstract art is about exploring form and color. One could even venture to say that it is artists drawing how they feel. Abstract art isn't about making perfect copies of real life. Sometimes, It isn't even about giving the impression of real life without all the little details. In fact, depending on the artists, abstract art became about the process itself. Representational would mean that you draw what you see. Abstract art is far from that concept.
Composition Eight
By Wassilly Kandinsky
By Wassilly Kandinsky
Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another purposely, to cause vibrations in the soul."
Learning Intention: to be able to explain what art conventions Surrealism (surrealist art) uses to convey meaning.
Success Criteria:
- I can identify the features of surrealist art.
- I can make an interpretation of the meaning using evidence from the picture.
- I can identify how the artist has used mediums such as, colour, pattern, space, and shape to convey meaning.
- I can create my own abstract painting that uses colour, pattern, space and line to create meaning.
interpretation is the action of explaining the meaning of something.
Surrealism began as a philosophical movement that said the way to find truth in the world was through the subconscious mind and dreams, rather than through logical thought. The movement included many artists, poets, and writers who expressed their theories in their work.
What are the characteristics of Surrealist art?
Surrealism images explored the subconscious areas of the mind. The artwork often made little sense as it was usually trying to depict a dream or random thoughts. Artists often put objects together that are not normally seen together.
Salvador Dali
Lobster Telephone Persistence of Memory
False Mirror by Rene Magritte