Art Blogpost 1
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.
Kia Ora Tamara,
ReplyDeleteYou have linked the article on subversion and provided some text from it. Art can use subversion in many ways. Tawhiao wants to subvert the colonization of Māori culture to keep Māori alive and existing on a more equal basis with the colonizing European culture. Her idea is that it is normal to be Māori in Aotearoa/New Zealand. A next step is to analyze one of her art works to see how she tries to undermine or overthrow its language...
Hi Tamara,
ReplyDeleteThe painting you've completed for 1.2 has some of the Tawhiao elements you are learning about in the AS 1.1 Research. In critique we noticed the hand-written quality of your text and primary colour scheme. We suggested that a next step would be to realign the geometry of the house with your primary colour shapes.
This coming week, we will work on the AS 1.1 Research. We could finish the thumbnails show above by adding labels and comments about what you see (like you are describing it to someone that is not able to look at it).