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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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.

Art Semester 2

 In art, we have been doing thumbnail sketches in groups so we are in groups of 4 but io am in a group of 3 so we did draw A Turtle, Tree, Roots, And a Butterfly. Because in Art we have been told by our teacher that we are going to be making a Murel for the wall or to put on the shelf in the art space and it is supposed to be completed before the end of the term. And this mural is about resilience. Here are some ideas about resilience Beleive in yourself, Failure is not fatal, Keep working when it's hard, When it's tough you don't quit, Recover quickly from an incident, Don't put yourself down, Fake it till you make it, Finish what you started, Keep on going, Being dedicated, Commitment, Bouncing back, Trying your best, Learn. from your own mistakes, Perseverence, Don't give up, And Never give up. Here are some stuff that is Strong But Fragile

-Hair

-Muscles

-Baby Animal

-Branch

-Tree

-Butterfly

And now here is some stuff that is Strong But Powerful

-Waves

-The Human Brain

-Storm

Here are some photos that I drew but I found these online.

Art Semester 2

Art Semester 2 

What kinds of mural images add interest to the city? 

Different styles of the murals help gain people’s attention like I find the spray-painted murals the most interesting. I think the murals with the most meaning are the ones with stories behind them. Especially ones they represent history (like world wars) which gain most attention because it can give an understanding to people around and give the city a part of history (like if we had an earthquake mural in Christchurch.) 

Interpret how they express different ideas than other visual signs and/or advertising. 

They come up with an idea or a photo in their head and they have to plan it out so it will gain others attention. It is different from visual signs/advertising because all of that is a very common, everyday thing. Where murals have a lot of meaning and work into them which forces a story behind the artwork. 

What does good street art do for the community?

Good street art covers walls or places that seem dull and add colour onto them so that people will want to look at them and see what the art could be about. Street art can also get people attracted to a town which also couldn’t do that well, for example, a town that isn’t known isn’t getting enough visitors and can’t run business that well adds a few murals on a wall, people pass by and see the murals they will want to see what it is and want to take photos of the mural. More people will come and pass by, they could be hungry, tired or bored and see some things in the town that can please their interests. This means that more people come and businesses can flourish again. It can also make an area look better than it did about.

What were you meant to learn?

That all art has a meaning even if it’s on a wall in the city, you have to respect it and you might try to learn its story. It gives us an understanding of how to apply many different ways of being creative. We learnt that all art is different and even if the artist did make a mistake you wouldn’t have known because that’s how artworks are. So I would sum this up by saying that mistakes in art really aren’t mistakes they could make things better or worse. 

What did you enjoy about this process?

We enjoyed looking at all of the different varieties of all the street arts/murals. It was so cool seeing things look so realistic and sometimes seeing cool creative ideas go into making a boring old wall have some personality. We also really enjoyed recognizing the street art we have seen around Christchurch City. 

What do you think you will do next?

I think next we will be thinking about what we want to create and research some things important towards our city. Afterwards, we will probably choose groups and work on different ways to shade and tone some of our artwork.

Here is a link too look at our google doc.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gNvIuQ0tMBa8fKKhINA9jNBIf-QajcF-wBEMqL8oT5I/edit?ts=5f18f82d

Art

In Art, we have been doing kahui birds = drawing them, cutting it out, and printmaking. I have made up a slide for you to look at.