In the 1940s a group of artists wanted their artworks to look completely non representational or 'abstract'. They were called the 'Colourfield' artists because they painted in large fields of colour that would 'envelop' the view when they stood in front of their expansive canvases. The Colourfield artists rejected all forms of illusionism (especially perspective and tone) and any hint of subject matter. In term one, Year 7 Visual Arts students have been exploring the 6 elements of art (line, shape, tone, colour, texture and space). They have employed line, shape and colour, tone and texture to create their own Colourfield artwork.
Bridey Grover
Inspired by the work of Pop Artist Claes Oldenburg, students have represented mass production in all sort of yummy flavours!
Students has demonstrated great skills working with various lines to create an ocean using chalk.
One of the most famous of the Surrealist games was the Exquisite Corpse. This is a chain game—a, basically a game in which a piece of creative work is passed from one player to another. Although this began as a writing exercise students translated this into an evolving Surrealist sketch that exploded from a man’s head.
Students explored complex detail in their Surrealist artwork by recreating their own versions of Henri Magritte's iconic painting 'False Mirror'.
Mariana Rudas Rodriguez
Mya Cartwright
Students had the opportunity to develop their observational and drawing skills, creating a One Point Perspective drawing of a bedroom.
In this task students developed their observation and perspective drawing skills, creating a Two Point Perspective drawing of a Cityscape.
Year 7 has been able to demonstrate observational skills to create tone using pencil and paint. They were able to use shading to create light, medium and dark tones as well as cross hatching to achieve tone.
Abby Zitignani
Isla Pearce
Luke Severin
Lucinda Wiggins