Blog Post 5 (Draft)

 Blog Post 5 (Draft)

How does Tracey Tawhiao use a grid for her work?

Tracey uses a grid-like all other artists only because it helps them make the structure right and make it look like it is more centered and complete. Another thing is that it will help with the color coordination and what colors to choose for her artwork to make it stand out when it is being used to be looked at on the walls but most importantly using a grid makes the colors stand out while being on the wall to be displayed. The colors used with the grid work make the colors brighter and more pleasant to see what it has been turned out to be. the grid is being used in a way that is made by the artist to make what they want while using a grid only because it is easier to do and also to use it while using their artwork to stand out. 

Passion Project 2021

For the last 7 weeks, Abbagale and I have been doing something called a Passion Project. We decided to work by ourselves or in a group. I worked in a group with Abbagale and we made a spilt canvas mural of a tree with 4 dimensions. We kept on changing the color cause whatever color we decided on we both disliked until our final design. I learned how to make something out of a limited of time. Abbagale and I worked as a team to make our project work and it went so well. There would probably be nothing to change if we did decide to do it next time,.

What we did?

We had planning paper, Abbagale and I sketched out what the design would look like on a canvas but first on the piece of sketch paper with a pencil also stuck some buttons on as either blossoms or fruits just to give it some details and it looks really good.

What changed as we went along?

figuring out some of the colors either dried darker or didn't even dry fast in the time we needed them to. What also changes was when we stuck the buttons on it also we used a hot glue gun and it was super stringy and it also went everywhere and we both had to pick all of the stringy bits off.

What did we learn?

We learned that not all paint works out on our canvas, and oil paint doesn't dry fast it takes a while depending on the amount. How did we both work as a team? We worked together doing the smallest and simplest things first.

What would we do differently next time? Take my time and try not to rush into finishing it, and also be more cautious around the edges.

Here is our Split Canvas Mural of A Tree with 4 dimensions, Abbagale first had to draw it out onto paper of what it would look like as a rough sketch. We also decided together which colors to use as we both didn't really know which ones to use. But we worked together to figure out what colors would go where and also what color the tree was going to be. We both took turns painting each square of the canvas of the right colors chosen. 

So this week in Wananga I have been reading this article about the total lunar eclipse to coincide with the supermoon next week that I had found on my Mahi. My Mahi is a new app we use instead of Kamar it is a lot easier to use also it is quicker. Here is what the article says.

Next week's blood moon, a total lunar eclipse, should be "spectacular", says an astronomy expert.

Wednesday's eclipse will also coincide with what is known as a supermoon when it is at its closest point to Earth.

University of Auckland senior lecturer of Physics Nicholas James Rattenbury said the blood moon was caused by planet alignment and dispersed light.

"When the eclipse is deep, we have the sun, the Earth, and the Moon almost pretty much lined up so the Earth's shadow is falling right across the Moon's surface."

With the Moon orbiting closer to Earth, combined with the eclipse, it is expected to seem colored and brighter.

"You can see the Moon appear to turn red, but the Moon isn't actually turning red. What's happening is that the light from the sun is partly going through the Earth's atmosphere and the blue light gets scattered down to us - that's why the sky appears to be blue - and the red light which is left over, keeps on going through the atmosphere and gets bent onto the surface of the Moon kind of like a lens," Dr. Rattenbury said.

While he was aware of the total lunar eclipse being the sole one of 2021, stargazers should be open-minded as to how red the blood moon may appear.

"We shouldn't expect that the Moon looks like a very bright red. For some people, it looks kind of reddish-brown or dull salmony color, but it's certainly an effect you want to look out for," he said.

The University of Canterbury Mt John Observatory director Karen Pollard said providing clear conditions, a good show would be on.

Culture Poster

So in Wananga, we were told to make a poster about culture. Then we got to choose if we wanted to be in pairs or by ourselves.  So my best friend Abbagale and I decided to be together as a pair and it only took us a day to complete this poster then we were told to post it on our blog. So here is our lovely pairs Culture Poster

Reflection

 I have been reading a news article about covid 19 but it is mostly all Auckland in It. Auckland entered level 3 lockdown on 28th of  February 2021for the second time this year, less than two weeks after the last three-day lockdown in mid-February. Ardern announced the alert level changes on Saturday night after a 21-year-old man tested positive earlier that day. He had attended classes at Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT) and visited a number of other locations while potentially infectious. His mother, case N, also tested positive on Saturday. While no new cases in the community have been reported yet, Ardern and Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield revealed how case N and her son, case M, are connected to a family who tested positive for Covid-19 in mid-February. New community cases had contact with infected family it was revealed that case N went for a walk with case F on the morning of 15 February, the day after Auckland last went into lockdown. Both families have students who attend Papatoetoe High School. The other household was the second cluster in the February outbreak. Case F's daughter tested positive on 16 February, and case F tested positive on 17 February. The contact between the two families was not disclosed to contact tracers prior to the family entering quarantine. A graph showing the connection between the cases in the Auckland February cluster Photo: RNZ/ Vinay RanchhodThe latest family - case N and M - told officials about the contact later, Ardern said. She could not say why the first family did not disclose the contact, whether it was for fear that it occurred during level 3 or lack of memory. Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson told Checkpoint he did not believe case M and N's actions were defiant or ideological. He has not seen any evidence they were deliberately ignoring rules and said they had been co-operative.

Critical Literacy

 Critical Literacy
In Wananga, we have been doing some stuff called critical literacy here is what I have been doing. 
What is the text about? The lost diary 
Date: 29/09/2011
Dork Diary 
That she lost her diary and now she can not find it anywhere she has looked and looked for it but it just can’t be seen anywhere she gets people to help find it, but the problem is that it has fallen out of her front pocket of her bag, so she is also thinking someone else has picked it up and has got it somewhere else so that she can’t find it and she doesn’t know who has picked it up. By the sounds of it, she thinks she knows who has her book she has searched for it far and low she thinks Mackenzie has it for when she went into the toilet to cry she bumped into her and she said that she will search for her diary far and low. Because Mackenzie knew that her diary was missing, But here this is what Mackenzie said I’M GOING TO SEARCH THIS ENTIRE SCHOOL UNTIL I FIND YOUR DIARY, AND WHEN I DO YOU WILL BE SORRY. The 3 girls have gone into the boy’s locker room while they are training for football and they went searching for a particular bag and they found it inside the boy’s locker room so they went through it to see if that bag has her diary in it but when one of the girls put her hand in the bag they thought it was in there but it was another book. Finally, I have finished the book and they finally found her diary and guess who had it her little sister took it to school for show and tell and her little sister said that all the kids loved the funny pictures in her diary.
What is the text about? The lost diary Nikki Maxwell has been writing in a diary since the start of the school year, and she usually takes it everywhere she goes. so she can't believe it when one morning she can't find her diary! The hunt is on, and while she looks, pursuing various theories about where it could be, with help of her besties Chloe and Zoey.
 
Why am I reading this text to get to know about the whole entire book?

 Art Blog Post 4

• De Chirico’s

• Does Italy

• Got a lot of brown in it

• Does A lot of buildings and people

• Tracey Tawhiao

• Maori Artworks

• Colorful

Giorgio de Chirico was an Italian artist and writer born in Greece. In the years before world war 1, he

founded the Scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists. His most

well-known works often feature the Roman Arcades, Long Shadows, Mannequins, Trains, and illogical

perspectives. Because he is Italian he does a lot of artwork in the country Italy only because he is from

there. But the artwork he does has a lot of the color brown in it and also he does buildings and people.

The paint that Giorgio De Chirico used was Metaphysical paint. Metaphysical painting, style of painting

that flourished mainly between 1911 and 1920 in the works of the Italian artists Giorgio de Chirico and

Carlo Carra. These painters used representational but incongruous imagery to produce disquieting effects on the viewer.

Tracey Tawhiao is a prolific artist with a wide range of creative expressions including poetry, painting,

performance, and filmmaking. She is well known for using newspapers as the basis of her practice,

obscuring passages of the text with block colors and Maori symbols and motifs, Whilst highlighting short

headlines or individual words. Tawhiao's artistic practice arose from the time spent with her grandparents at

their Matakana Island home. The walls were covered in newspapers and Tawhiao's idea to brighten the

place up was to apply symbols and images directly to the walls. This close connection to the text

highlighted her negativity implicit in the headlines. Tracey does Maori artwork because she is Maori

and loves her Maori culture. For the paintings, she makes them colorful and uses the Maori design to

represent her culture.

 

Art Blog Post 3

Art Blog Post 3

In this blog post, we had to watch a video about Sofia Minson. This video we had to watch was all about her artwork. Here is the video. Link 

• Tracey Tawhiao 

• Maori Artworks

• Colorful

Tracey Tawhiao is a prolific artist with a wide range of creative expressions including poetry, painting,

performance, and filmmaking. She is well known for using newspapers as the basis of her practice,

obscuring passages of the text with block colors and Maori symbols and motifs, Whilst highlighting short

headlines or individual words. Tawhiao's artistic practice arose from the time spent with her grandparents

at their Matakana Island home. The walls were covered in newspapers and Tawhiao's idea to brighten the

place up was to apply symbols and images directly to the walls. This close connection to the text

highlighted her negativity implicit in the headlines. Tracey does Maori artwork because she is Maori

and loves her Maori culture. For the paintings, she makes them colorful and uses the Maori design to

represent her culture. 

•  Sofia Minson 

• Less colorful

• Does People 

• Does Animals

Sofia Minson was born in 1984 in Auckland. She is a contemporary New Zealand oil painter of Maori

(Ngati Porou) Swedish, English, and Irish descent. She has had an award for 1st prize Molly Morpeth

Canaday Art. She is well known for oil painting, Street art, and much more. Sofia uses less color in her

artwork because I think she wants it to be plain and stand out more. She only does paintings of People

and animals. Sofia Minson paints with oils, acrylics, and flashe to create awe-inspiring landscapes,

mystical animals, and life-like portraits to celebrate the beauty and wonder of Aotearoa. Sofia follows a

very organic creative process, painting from her own personal inspirations. Because of this, she does not

follow a commission-based artistic process. she uses what comes to her head at first, and then she uses

it to describe what she does as a living. Sofia Minson's artworks have subversion in them but she does not follow a process to help her with her artworks. She paints from her own personal inspirations.

 

 

 Art Blog Post 2 

So in Art, we have been working on an artist called Tracey Tawhaio and we have to do blog posts about her or about some of the artwork she has done. So this blog post is about real space and how she uses it in her artwork. Realspace is three-dimensional that has space in a work of art that refers to a feeling of depth or three dimensions. it can also refer to the artist's use of the area within the picture plane. the area around the primary objects in a work of art is known as negative space, and I noticed that there is a lot of space that has not been used so that means that is has been left over. Tracey Tawhaio uses space in all of her work by letting it be in the right spot because how I related my work I used a lot of space for my artwork also because it makes it a lot easier to use space in all of your own work. Using space in art, Space gives the viewer a reference for interpreting an artwork. For instance, you may draw one object larger than another to imply that it is closer to the viewer. Likewise, a piece of environmental art may be installed in a way that leads the viewer through space. She categorizes her work in a way that makes sense to what she is painting the objects she uses are the Maori designs the reason why she does the is that she is Maori and she also has Maori culture in her. Tracey Tawhiao is a multi-disciplined contemporary artist who has studied and worked in a variety of fields. She is a writer, performance poet, filmmaker, qualified lawyer, and also a leading Maori artist.

The space we see in this particular artwork and is about the gold wreath, greek is unreal because as you can see there is a lot of space left out in the middle then you look to the sides and they have been joined together. but there is are organic shapes and forms in this particular artwork and I noticed the color when I first look at this piece of artwork the gold color is amazing. the gold makes me think of the gold $1 and $2 coming when they come out clean and not dirty. I love the color gold for that particular artwork it makes it stand out and more the plain and simple colors. I can describe the color well and the artwork making it stand out and making it spread out is so that it looks real and not just a simple piece of artwork.

                                         Here is a slide of artworks that we have been using.

Art Blog post 1

 Art Blogpost 1

Subversion in Art

Our current objective in art is to research and learn about subversion in art using methods like thumbnail sketches. Art is supposed to challenge the art constructs and make people think and question things. However, some people do not appreciate having their views challenged and so they get angry. If art does not challenge them tough, they will get bored of your art. Within Tracey's work, the act of subversion is shown in the process of painting over a newspaper written in English. Tracey is a Maori artist so by doing this it is almost as if she is trying to cover up the English part of New Zealand. She doesn't make much of an attempt to hide the fact that she is doing it over something is that sometimes she'll let things like words show through. When she paints she uses Maori patterns as if to say that the country should belong to the Maori more than the British. Newspaper is also not really a permanent canvas and is not designed to be painted on.

Art is meant to be subverted, that's the reason for it, a basis for its existence, even when it comes to the painting of flowers, it is the pure expression of a subjective interpretation of the world. it didn't come into existence to make people happy necessarily, art was born to educate and challenge, inform and inspire, and sometimes, outrage. Great art has been instrumental in pushing the world forward, and it is always met with resistance. The general public is at least 10 years behind the subversive artist. if the majority of people like your work, you're doing something wrong. if they hate it, chances are you are doing something that challenges common perception something important and different and it will take years for the zeitgeist to catch up. Art can use subversion in many ways. Tawhaio wants to subvert the colonization of Maori culture to keep Maori alive and existing on a more equal basis with the colonizing European culture. Her idea is normal to be Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Here are some drawings I have done. One is a thumbnail sketch and the other one is kind of like her work but different but you know what I love it the way it is.

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Critical Literacy Week 3

 Date: 29/09/2011 When the book was published

Dork Diary 

That she lost her diary and now she can not find it anywhere she has looked and looked for it but it just can’t be seen anywhere she gets people to help find it, but the problem is that it has fallen out of her front pocket of her bag, so she is also thinking someone else has picked it up and has got it somewhere else so that she can’t find it and she doesn’t know who has picked it up. By the sounds of it, she thinks she knows who has her book she has searched for it far and low she thinks Mackenzie has it for when she went into the toilet to cry she bumped into her and she said that she will search for her diary far and low. Because Mackenzie knew that her diary was missing, But here this is what Mackenzie said I’M GOING TO SEARCH THIS ENTIRE SCHOOL UNTIL I FIND YOUR DIARY. AND WHEN I DO YOU WILL BE SORRY. The 3 girls have gone into the boy’s locker room while they are training for football and they went searching for a particular bag and they found it inside the boy’s locker room so they went through it to see if that bag has her diary in it but when one of the girls put her hand in the bag they thought it was in there but it was another book. Finally, I have finished the book and they finally found her diary and guess who had it her little sister took it to school for show and tell and her little sister said that all the kids loved the funny pictures in her diary.

What is the text about? The lost diary Nikki Maxwell has been writing in a diary since the start of the school year, and she usually takes it everywhere she goes. so she can't believe it when one morning she can't find her diary! The hunt is on, and while she looks, pursuing various theories about where it could be, with help of her besties Chloe and Zoey.

 

Why am I reading this text to get to know about the whole entire book?

Art

Tracey was born in 1967. She is a multi-skilled contemporary artist. She has studied and worked
in a variety of fields, She is a writer, performance poet, filmmaker, qualified lawyer, and a practicing
artist. Her artworks convey the breadth of her experience and her position as a Maori woman in
a European-dominated society. She is a regular contributor to Te Ao Maori Collective and her work

has been incorporated into several Contemporary Maori art group shows. Tracey Tawhiao is a
prolific artist with a wide range of creative expression including poetry, painting, performance,
and filmmaking. She is well known for using newspaper as the basis of her practice, obscuring
passages of text with block colors and Maori symbols and motifs, whilst highlighting short
headlines or individual words. Tawhiao’s artistic practice arose from time spent with her
grandparents at their Matakana Island home. The walls were covered in newspapers and
Tawhiao's idea to brighten the place up was to apply symbols and images directly to the walls.
This close connection to the text highlighted to her the negativity implicit in the headlines.  Tawhiao graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) Classical Studies Major; Otago University,
Dunedin, and also a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) Otago University and Auckland University.
Tawhiao was asked to create work to enhance the exterior of the Hotel Britomart whilst under
construction. This was the first to feature in the series 'Works on Paper'. She says of her work
"The newspaper is putting a version of the news out to us, and I’m really colonizing the page
and reappropriating the page and making the new news. Tawhiao's work is informed by the
experience of māori in a colonized world. She has been heavily influenced by the juxtaposition
of living alongside her grandparents and their way of life on Matakana Island to the demands
and chaos of contemporary living' outside that setting.
Her practice has taken her overseas with installations in Paris,
Los Angeles, and Taipei. Her work is held in the collection of the
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. 

Who is Tracey Tawhiao?
Tracey Tawhiao (Ngai Te Rangi, Whakatohea, Tuwaretoa) was born in 1967.
She is a multi- skilled emporary artist who has studied and worked in a variety of fields.
She created the Houe Of Taonga Salon, including a manifesto and rooms for gathering
emerging artists and exhibitions.

Lisa Reihana
Lisa Reihana is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice spans film, sculpture,
costume and body adornment, text, and photography.
Since the 1990s she has significantly influenced the development of contemporary art
and contemporary Māori art in Aotearoa New Zealand. She has earned an outstanding
reputation as an artist, producer, and cultural interlocutor with her attention to the
complexities of contemporary photographic and cinema languages expressed in
myriad ways. Her ability to harness and manipulate seductively high production
values are often expressed through portraiture where she explores how identity
and history are represented, and the intersection of these ideas with concepts of
place and community.