Analysing Artist Models

Level 2/3

Analysing and Using the ‘Artist Model’

Barry McGee Jean Michel Basquiat

Antonio Tapies

Cy Twombly, ‘Coronation of

Sesostris.’Cy Twombly, Crossing

Homenatge a joan prats, lithographyAntonio Tapies

Antonio Tapies

Barry McGee

Using artist models, compare and annotate, similarities & differences:

Use headings like:

Subject Matter

Content

Media

Technique

Composition

Colours

Light

Style

William Sutton, 1950, ‘Nor’wester in the Cemetry,’ oil on canvas, 152.0 x 183.0 cm

Compare & Contrast

Compare & contrast: Create a word bank using key words

Hotere, 34Smither, 1969-70, cross for Rita Angus

EXPLICIT ARTIST MODEL

Stanley Palmer

Stanley Palmer

Implicit

Colin McCahon

Implicit

‘Four Waterfalls’

1964, pva on board, mounted on board, 63x63 cm

Colin McCahon

Charles Heaphy, Main Entrance to Queen Charlotte Sound, 1848

Charles Heaphy, Off Point Jackson, Cook Strait, Part 1, 1848

Explicit

Gregory O’Brien, 1867, Otago Harbour & Peninsula,

Explicit

Michel Smither (1969-70) Cross For Rita Angus, oil on board, 77X76

Implicit/Explicit

Implicit

McCahon, Red & Black Landscape,

1959, enamel paint & sand on hardboard, 673mm x 441mm

Draw this Gregory O’Brien landscape.

Gregory O’Brien, 1848, Dunedin Harbour from Flagstaff.

Colin McCahon, 1958, commercial oil-based paint 8 unstretched canvas panels .

Draw this McCahon landscape. Annotate using formal art terms to describe elements.

Compare & Contrast, Note similarities & differences

Use formal language:CompositionFormToneColourArtist intentions

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