Visual Arts
Monet and Friends On Tuesday 4 May Year 10 Visual Arts viewed the ‘Monet and Friends’ exhibition at the Royal Hall of Industries, Moore Park, Sydney. This was to complement their current studies concerning the effects of light on colour and subject matter in painting and photography. The exhibition was a great addition to their studies as it not only provided students with examples of artists who studied the atmospheric effects of light and the expressive possibilities of colour, but also because it raised questions about how a contemporary audience views art. This exhibition was a digitised light show with paintings enhanced by 3D technology and computer aided design. Students were not looking at the original artwork, but a scaled up and highly stylised version. The digital age changes the way an audience views, appreciates and thereby understands art and students need to discuss the ramifications of these new adaptations.
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In the afternoon students moved by coach to Centennial Park where the intention had been to create a landscape painting in the French Impressionist tradition of painting directly in front of the subject and capturing the particular quality of light for that time of day and season. However, due to inclement weather plans were altered and students instead photographed the landscape from various vantage points in Centennial Park and then returned to School for an afternoon session of painting in the studio from their mediated image. The excursion covered various aspects of the Stage 5 Visual Arts syllabus and was a valuable addition to their course work for their current unit ‘Painting with Light’. Mary Dorahy Visual Arts Teacher
