Visual Diary 2020
In the first 4 weeks of our studies, we are researching and creating analytical drawings of seed pods from trees, indigenous and introduced, in the parks, walkways, around the community, acorns, walnuts, kowhai pods etc.
Objective: A drawing a day for the first 4 weeks of 6 seed pod samples to study the natural object to understand the intricacies of its form within form.
Analytical drawing's
Pinecone
Other
Acorn
An introduction to three-dimensional sculpture forms
An introduction to te taraitanga ahutoru three dimensional sculpture forms will survey our responses to mana whakapapa as ringa tarai. The focus of week one and week two will be how to view and experience ringa tarai 3D and installation art
One point perspective
An introduction into perspective drawing using one point perspective and two point perspective drawing. Do four different arrangements with squares of varying sizes.
An introduction to installation art
An introduction into perspective drawing using one point perspective and two point perspective drawing. Do four different arrangements with squares of varying sizes.
ACTIVITY:
In your visual diary, utilising the critical thinking techniques outlined above you must critique the installation Ka kata te pō by Saffronn Te Ratana, Ngataiharuru Taepa and Hemi MacGregor first shown in 2011 at Te Manawa Museum and later reiterated in 2015 at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki within the 5th Auckland Triennial: If you were to live here. Within your critique, you should include images, newspaper articles, catalogues, reviews (online and published ie. Art NZ) etc. Bring to class on Friday 27th July.
The artwork is Ka kata te pō, The title comes from a
Tuhoe battle whakatauki (proverb):
‘He iti na Tuhoe, e kata te po'. One interpretation is,
‘No matter how small Tuhoe are, their laughter will be
heard through the night'. The artists that created the
art piece is Saffronn Te Ratana, Ngataiharuru Taepa and
Hemi MacGregor.
The artwork was made in 2011. The media that was used
in the piece was made from painted pastel green
cardboard and shiny black fibreglass. The artwork has
been put on display at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o
Tamaki and Te Manawa in Palmerston North.
The points of these stars surrounding the floating figure
are sharp as if a prism has shattered into a nest of
deadly shards. The colour of the spikes is very subtle
with pastel green, there is a sense of it being somewhat organic that links back to nature and that nature is forever growing almost like a fungus taking over the gallery. There is almost a balance between the black bull figure and the abstract shapes. express the contrast between the light of the heavens and the blackness of the night beyond. The artwork is spacially present therefore allowing you to walk around the floating chaos; the spikes shapeshift dramatically, almost like a tangle of emotions that constantly moves into new configurations.
The work is said to be inspired by the 2007 Urewera Raids.
