12ARP - KAUPAPA-Theme

Kaupapa is your Theme or the story you want to tell in your work. Having a kaupapa helps to guide you to make effective compositions and focus your series.

In class, we have been looking at "connections", using hands and scapes as our subject matter.... but you will decide on your Kaupapa beyond that, there are specific motifs and conventions that we should see across your work.

12ARP Subject matter and Kaupapa (theme) in art

Kaupapa/ theme ideas

"forgotten"
"connection"
"Isolation"
"Remember"
"collide"

*consider how to develop a focus question around your Kaupapa...it is recommended you come up with a question to guide your theme. ie. "who gets to decide what is remembered and what is forgotten" could guide an investigation into the history of Aotearoa through traditional and westerns lenses.

Subject matter

This is what genre you will use such as portraits or landscape etc

It is recommended you consider surrealistic compositions.

Motifs/symbols

Things we should see across your boards

key aspects from one or more artist model such as hands, drapeded figure/cloths/arches/barren landscape etc

other ideas:

flora or fauna objects
cultural pattern
portraits
Taonga

Conventions

In your compositions focus on

colour [limited colour palette]
space [positive and negative space]
repetition [of forms]
light
shape

Activity: developing a personal kaupapa

For this activity, we are going to break up into groups to do some group idea development.

When presented with a word, you can respond to it from a very literal sense to a very abstract [or metaphysical sense]. for example POWER: Literal = a power point or batteries, Metaphysical = the power of authority

THINK PAIR SHARE [from physical to metaphysical]

read the topic word and think about a response, write it on a piece of paper. Discuss this with someone else at the table and add/change/modify it if needed.
read other people's responses and discuss these with each other - ask questions "What would this look like", and "What do you mean here?", add to the ideas if they generate something new in your head [spider maps]
write down some potential focus questions.
after a few minutes, a timer will go off and it is time to change to another group [try to join different people]. Read statements already written down. Spider map from these or add your new responses.

WHAT AM I WRITING? anything.. it could be statements, thoughts, visual ideas, artists or even a sketch! This is about ways you could respond to the "theme" and group development of ideas.... one simple work from you could inspire a classmate to make something extraordinary

activity: Brainstorm and mood board

The purpose of brainstorming is to encourage you to gather and collect your subject matter and materials relevant to your theme to draw. The images and materials could be used as a starting point for your external folios [2.4] later in the year and internal assessments throughout the course

Select 1 of the points from the class brainstorm that "speaks" to you and develop an enquiry theme around it.
In your visual diary start to spider map -thoughts, images, ideas, and sketches that come to mind when you think of this Kaupapa
Begin to create a mood board of artists/artworks/images that could be used for your kaupapa [you are not locked into this at this point in the course] insert links, images and ideas into your Digital workbook under the external folio section

Renaissanceiconography.doc

activity Proposal

In your digital workbook complete the slide towards the end called "external folio Proposal: provide as much information as you can

9 steps for avoiding the cliché in an Art project

Research common and cliché responses to the theme you intend to explore, so you know what to avoid in your work.
Create an extensive moodboard and plan of different artist ideas and imagery to refer to as you develop your ideas. This is an essential part of the planning process and allows you to creatively combine research, inspiration images and annotated ideas. Your mood board and initial plan are also an effective way of showing examiners your initial ideas and thoughts.
Make the time to explore current artist work as well as traditional artist responses to a theme.
Have a broad research base and look at sites other than relying on Google to be your sole source of influence. Sites like Behance, Flickr Carbonmade, Talenthouse, ArtServed etc are all continually updated and full of creative inspiration to get you inspired.
Look for successes in places that might be overlooked. Take the time to review your work by yourself and with others to target areas of development that you may have missed.
Don’t just stop at one outcome. Think about how you can redevelop your work in other ways, which could push your ideas further and create a more individual response.
Keep an open mind when you develop your work – don`t try to force yourself too much in one direction. Be open-minded to new ideas and exploit these in your work. You will always be more personal and innovative if you can be free to develop your ideas on other tangents.
Remember that you can develop ideas in many different ways using unexpected mediums and processes. For example, photography students may approach image-making without a camera and think beyond the conventional photography. In Ella’s case, textiles and craft skills were just as essential to the development of ideas as her initial photographs.
Be experimental… but always take the time to select the best media and techniques to further develop your work into the most meaningful outcomes.

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