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Unit 1: renaissance Arts
Unit 1: renaissance Arts
Grade 8 explored the "practical" arts during the Renaissance when there existed a tradition of artistic techniques used in books, manuscripts, precious objects, furniture, and pottery.
Illuminated Manuscripts:
Illuminated Manuscripts:
K
Evelyn
Ashley J
Sherry
Gabe
Maiolica Pottery:
Maiolica Pottery:
Matthew J
Sana, Ashley G, Sherry
K & Jason
Nicholas & Aidan
Naman & Matthew P
Dillon, Phoebe, Stanis
Ashley J, Thomas, Chatherine
Jordan & Gabe
Juan & Aristo
Dhruv & Erwin
Hannah & Gisela
Gary
Unit 2: Cultural Masks
Unit 2: Cultural Masks
In unit 2, the students explored their own cultural heritage as represented through traditional masks.
K
Erwin
Gabe
Thomas
Sana
Ashley G
Hannah
Nicholas
Sherry
Aristo
Chatherine
Juan
Jordan
Stanis
Gary
Aidan
Gisela
Jason
Naman
Unit 3: SUrrealism
Unit 3: SUrrealism
Surrealism is a movement in art and literature that is aimed at expressing imaginative dreams and visions free from conscious rational control. Grade 8 painted surreal watercolors to send a message to their audience through symbolism and juxtaposition.
Nicholas
My message that my artwork want to deliver is about pollution and how the toxic and dangerous air will keep growing if nothing is being done. One side is green which indicates that it is clean. The car in the side is travelling to turn the green skies to turn red.
Matthew P
Pollution is slowly eating, killing, and destroying our beautiful planet every day. If we don’t stand up against it, we will all live a miserable life, and I know that no one in this world wants to live that life. The UN SDG goals that I am promoting are goals 14 & 15. These goals are “Life Below Water” and “Life on land”, both of these goals connect to my message as I am trying to raise awareness about pollution on both land and water.
Thomas
The message in my artwork is telling about deforestation. Humans build buildings, but not a tree. This situation is happening on Earth these days. So the message I am trying to tell is that humans must have responsibility to take care of nature. Greed and money is one of the problems why nature is changing.
Shinichi
The massage of my artwork is a problem that’s happened in the world right now. That is disparity in wealth. A year ago I came to Indonesia and saw a sight that I would not see in Japan. That is poor people. Sometimes I see the poor people in the car. Nearly 1/2 of the world's population live on less than $2.50 a day. More than 1.3 billion live in extreme poverty and less than $1.25 a day. 1 billion children worldwide are living in poverty. According to UNICEF, 22,000 children die each day due to poverty. Thus many people in the world are suffering from poverty. I drew this picture because I wanted everyone to know this.
Gary
The theme of my painting is “Lonely is not always black white while staying in a group is not always colorful” and the main reason why I drew this surreal artwork because sometimes in school, people are really hard to find a true friend. In my painting, I also drew a group of people that is not happy with black and white to show the difference between a single person and a group of people.
Ashley J
The intention of this art is to raise awareness that people are trying to pollute the world on a daily basis. The message i’m trying to convey in this piece of art is that people are still polluting the world even when what they’re doing is what's on a daily basis, the meaning is to stop the daily basis that we’re doing that is contributing to the pollution of this world even when it is out of misunderstandings of people, as they do not realize the daily activities that they are doing that is contributing to the amount of pollution in this world or planet.
Fred
No luxury.
Phoebe
The four dimensions in my painting have different places and the object or living things in it. The dimension on the top right represents the life below water. However in the right bottom I draw how cars could pollute the world. In my paintings there is a lot of animal, snake, fish and the horse leg form the human body. I also put some surrealism to the human body because it's mixed with a horse leg. The smoke that is produced by the car is on top of the car. The snake is moving above the water with fish and the left bottom dimension is upside down.
Jordan
Days go by with meaning defined in colour, race, and physical properties. The greed of man, power, all have caused us to forget who we are. The artwork I’ve created depicts this in a way that many can understand. This plays on our perspective on values and how different races supposedly mean different humans, but no we are the same. The puppet controller snapped in the subtle image of the dollar sign conveys the message of no control in money. Both these help direct a message to the audience.
Erwin
Stanis
The message that I am trying to say in my artwork is that the problems that the Earth is facing right now are a lot and it needs to decrease the amount of problems that it is facing. I tried conveying those problems into my painting.
Matthew J
This painting promotes and symbolises why we need to eradicate war. The title of this artwork translates to ‘four little suckling pig heads’. The artwork title is written in Romanian as a historical reference to Vlad the Impaler, a prominent Romanian historical figure known as the impaler, which humans were left pierced straight through from the mouth to the legs by a stick where it would pierce the organs. The faces symbolise the faces of suckling pigs being cooked, which shows that people who cannot afford to find or buy food during war resorts to cannibalism. The symbols of food means hunger amongst the victims of harsh and bloody wars. The dead faces are being held on pitchforks as a sign of their sufferings - head chopped off while being stabbed through by a sharp pitchfork, spears piercing to the eyes; causing them to bleed and a face with no ears which shows how their voices are not being heard. There are also two small faces on a turning rod below which shows that it is a process that goes on and on - such as a spinning rod. This aligns with UN SDGs 1 (no poverty), 2 (zero hunger) and 16 (peace and justice).
Aristo
Sana
We don’t realise what we are doing to the world. We take everything for granted. Selfishness is a demon taking over the bodies of the kind creatures we all used to be. The planet does not deserve this kind of treatment, it deserves much better. A major reason for this treatment is social media, we care only about what is coming next, all the new stuff, instead of cherishing the present beauty. Because we are selfish beasts, we damage the world, there are no more habitats for the creatures we think are “cute” and the damage we cause is coming back to us, we are consuming the trash we littered everywhere along with the fish. If we continue to do this, what will the world become? The world will be consumed by humanity.
K
A fleeting smile; a prized car that would someday rot; the phone we cherish now that can end up in a pile of rubbish; and everything else all take shape into a burning candle inside this painting. Physical or abstract, they are merely temporary. Nothing is permanent in this world. One day, the candle will lose its flame and take everything along with it. So, it is up to us to choose what we should prioritize in our lives because just like everything else, our lives too have an end.
Jason
Depression or sadness gets the best of us, that is why I painted this painting. The message I am trying to convey is that joy can come in any form and at any time. That is why when darkness overwhelms us, we should think of things and bring back our happiness.
Dhruv
The meaning of this painting is how the earth is suffering and is getting polluted, in my painting if you see there is a man’s face which is chewing a tree and a fish. This painting is surreal because of the elements I used like scale changes.
Hannah
Everyone says they’re fine but what are they actually thinking deep inside. Trust is something that takes years to build but only seconds to break. Once trust is broken it will never be the same ever again, even if you try your best to fix it. As much people try to hide it, for who knows what reason. It might be due to the fear of losing a loved one or maybe it is because of a fear of being judged. In a lot of places mental health is considered a stigma, people are scared of letting out their thoughts, ashamed of what they are going through.
Sherry
A mask ; bright smiles and heavy makeup. Deep within humanity every human being hides a deep secret, something that they hide so well. Sometimes too often people define themselves as the problem they are facing. Sometimes they are at the edge of their own little world. One of the most common amongst humans is Beauty. Beauty has been standardized in countless ways, and this has been severely affecting teenagers starting from as young as 10 years old. As a result, the rate of suicide has also been increasing. The painting is showing what it is like inside someone's head, they have different points where they feel like they are about to collapse.
Juan
Chatherine
The picture has a message about the way someone sees the world differently and the people around us with a sharp, forward-looking look. That is because the eyes are a reflection of the world. Even so, the eye also has limitations in vision where it acts like a mirror that can only reflect the image in front of it without filtering out the image it wants to see. So that sometimes the eye can conclude the wrong message because he only deduces what we see.
Gisela
Every human has a dream, ambitions and goals; because without it, we are just a combination of liquids and machines that are slowly drained by the waves of sorrowness and misery. We often drown ourselves by believing in other people’s expectation that we are not able to reach our dream and make it a reality. Many people in this world have given up and tried to live to the standard expectations of others, but it would be such a waste that the great minds and thoughts that we ,humans, possess are not used to its best limits. As the title of this painting ‘ad astra per aspera’ which means ‘to the stars through hardships’, resembles my motive that if we humans just reach higher and not give up so easily, everything is possible...even reaching the stars. My message relates to the book I once read, called the “Interstellar Age” which shows what a human is capable of if they just believe.
Evelyn
We’re all in our little cages. Caging away all our scars and voices, fearing that maybe, we’re too much, too complicated, not good enough. I painted this painting with one goal in mind which is to prove people that they are not alone in this world. I want my painting to be able to relate to many people, especially teenagers who are going through hard times and feel as if they need to hide themselves in order to be loved. I want to show the imperfect mess we truly are and the pain that everybody goes through. This painting shows how people feel the need to cage their thunders and voices and how the pressure of being perfect can hold us down, being a weight and making it hard for us to breathe, to survive. I hope to promote the UN SDG of “Good health and well being” because it is time for us to start prioritizing our mental health.
Aidan
These days people are too focused on their mobile devices that sometimes they do not know what is happening in the real world but instead the virtual world. The message that I am trying to convey is that people should often take breaks from their phone and take a second to look around. Personally, I do have the habit of focusing on my phone and have several times where I could’ve been injured because of it. In 2013, 3,154 people were killed in distraction-related crashes. About 424,000 people were injured in crashes involving a distracted driver. The UN SDG Goal that I am trying to relate to is Goal 3 which is good health and well-being. With my painting, people will start to realize how much they have been missing out and hopefully reduce the screen time. With this, I can ensure that they have good health and a safe well-being.
Naman
It’s hard to understand what one person is truly going through or what emotions they’re feeling - this is the same for every living being. The message that I tried to incorporate in my surreal artwork is that living beings aren’t just composed of one single color but instead many different colors - including dirty colors. The UN SDG Goal that I am trying to relate to is Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions. My painting spreads a good message, through this people might be able to understand that everyone is goign through something, hence giving them different colors.
Gabe
From the past to the present, things have changed dramatically. Humans have broken a wall and have caused another reality of killing the planet slowly to enter resulting and making matters worse for the planet. By now you have probably guessed that my art is about pollution, specifically air pollution. The UN SDGs that link to my artwork are the 13th and the 15th. The 13th is “Climate Action” and the 15th is “Life on Land”. These SDGs relate since my art is showing the way climate change is about to ruin the trees on land with its pollution which is also why it is called breaking point.
Ashley G
Severance or separation is the theme of my painting. The separation between race and gender has been going on since the beginning of time. Education, work and human rights are just some of the things that are still being handed over to only specific people. The UN SDGs that are related to this are gender equality and reduced inequalities. These SDGs are striving to make sure that separation between humans will not happen due to discrimination agaisnt certain people. I am very passionate about gender equality and believe that both women and men should be treated as equals, as I would like to be able to work one day and have the same amount of chances as any man who works as well. Therefore, the message that i wanted to express was that people from 2 different worlds, backgrounds, opinions and wants can live together in harmony and peace.
Digital Surreal Self-Portraits
Digital Surreal Self-Portraits
In term 4, Grade 8 continued to explore and express themselves in a surreal style by using Digital Photo Manipulation software such as GIMP and others, to put themselves in unrealistic situations.
Sana
What Social Media is Doing to us
What do we do when we open our phones? Look at Social Media. We open apps such as Instagram, Tik Tok, Snapchat and so much more. We open these apps and all we do is compare ourselves to other people and tell ourselves “you are not good enough”. But this sentence we tell ourselves is inevitable because there is always someone better than us. Also, because of social media, we think that people with money can get themselves everything they want. But, we don’t realise that money can't buy love. It can buy happiness, but that is temporary, we will stop being happy after a new model or product comes out. We need to stop doing this, or our lives will get ruined.
Gabe
FLY HIGH
Whenever I am upset or stressed, I play basketball or volleyball, and then I tend to become happier and more cheerful after playing. This inspired my artwork because I love how sports can make people happier and also helps cheer them up. Therefore, my artwork does express my personality. I decided to use a hot air balloon because hot air balloons help people fly above the ground. I then added different types of sports balls attached to a hot air balloon basket making the sports ball the hot air balloon. The hot air balloons represent happiness and joy sports give us. Let’s go and fly high.
Naman
Escape
Violence causes innocent bystanders and children to become more inhumane and serves as a form of trauma - fueling their depression, anxiety, and emotions in a negative manner. Children are influenced/affected easily by the experiences they experience while growing up; war often drags them down assures a high chance of one not experiencing a normal childhood. I was originally going to devise a message from the statement above but instead ended up coming up with an idea for a short story that reflects the statement above to accompany my digital artwork. The title that I have given this work is “Escape”. The reason I chose this title was because of the story I was trying to tell through this artwork of the child who had his childhood taken away since his house was in a warzone. This child wishes for a chance to escape to somewhere away from all the current warfare, escape to a world of peace.
Gisela
A Glimpse of Memory
Every single soul has memories. Whether it’s pleasant and wonderful, or dark and petrifying. However, just like everyone else’s, memories can not be changed. In my artwork, “A glimpse of Memory” expresses the feeling of being able to replay a moment or event but is not able to change a single part of it. Personally, I am the type of person who always seems to regret the tiny details that had happened in the past. Therefore, the artwork’s intention is to convey a message that although we don't have the ability to change the past, we can always reflect on the regrets and make use of the time we have in the present to make sure that the mistake or problems in the past won’t occur again.
Shin
Untitled
My artwork is trying to tell you about don’t giving someone power of control. Sometime, I saw that some students are compliant with their friends. At that time, I was feeling they were poor and I wanted to reduce that number as much as possible. That's why I drew this picture.
Aidan
Pretend
Almost every week, I can sense an incident where a person is faking their smile, whether he or she just didn’t have a good day or whether they had personal problems, it is quite obvious to see if you are faking your smiles. I am trying to show them that they shouldn’t fake their smiles and just show their raw emotion because the people around them will accept them and help them out and if they keep pretending, it will harm them. In this artwork, there were a few pieces of symbolism. The main one was the mask, the mask was used to create a vibe where everything and everyone is covered up and hiding who they really are. With the mask, the audience can understand the painting more and also the deeper meaning behind it. Show people your real emotions, they will be accepting and will help you.
Ashley G
Long-awaited Dream
My dream has always been really straightforward. I have always wanted to go to a good college and be successful. My intention was to portray a dream-like atmosphere with some real life objects. The message that I am trying to express is that no matter what your dream is, you can achieve it if you work hard to reach it.![{"subsource":"done_button","uid":"8DA2BEE9-C917-4D23-A6C4-8B5AB87A8E4C_1588067590990","source":"share_action_sheet","origin":"unknown","sources":["314061497210211","324221963677211","324796141156211","314061573022211","321303828399211","324901184129211","325167397001211","325668624116211","325703049063211","275187529002211","321664649139211","294223061020211"],"source_sid":"8DA2BEE9-C917-4D23-A6C4-8B5AB87A8E4C_1588067590991"}](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/sitesv/AICyYdZW6riGojsAeS_gBhw-lrE9EzITRv2yvSrGWx1T6eNYAvAOiZKSOVugBvSKiM3_ElWJxa6GuDjwoG1j5gTuKl31H-RFNyRuQDoQw-CZ8yOhRuPFUU0JVhZqk3bnSrl-25y33iLPkZsyA_-CRS9sbig35EK43vvGOUpXiRQAtJfb3vRNdo-K_trLuyQlYbWKGMVHjEIYx9tTZiI=w1280)
Evelyn
The Good Old Days
Technology has taken the reins of our daily life. From looking at your phones the first thing in the morning to watching until late at night. It’s no secret that technology has been a catalyst for innovation and change for the past decades but with technology, we also succeed in putting a mask of ourselves in social media and getting carried away by likes and numbers rather than the true meanings of life. I hope through my surrealist artwork, I can remind people about the things we live for, the art, the words, music, family, friends, and many more. These are the things that will grant you freedom and create a wonderful meaning for your life, away from the blue screens. Tell me, when was the last time you truly felt alive?
Matthew P
Overtaken
Technology is taking over us human beings, and every single day, it is affecting each and every one of us. This is the message that I am trying to send through forms of symbolism in my art piece. The majority of people stay home just to play games and watch, and this is making it so that people are not recognizing the beauty of nature. By sending this message, I hope that people would be more self-conscious when using forms of technology, and start to spend more time with family and do other social activities.
Phoebe
In My World
Almost everyday I watch youtube, I think youtube is one of my energy sources. The pictures in the surreal work are the source of my energy, there are the foods I like, my dog that gives me happiness and swimming that I enjoy to help with my body health. The message I want to express in the piece of work is that, all of the things in the main picture are the things I like and the things that I enjoy, I want to share the source of my happiness to other people.
Gary
The Badminton Tears
Badminton is my favorite hobby, however, due to this COVID-19 situation, I can not go out and play badminton anymore, so through this artwork, I want to tell the emotion that I have which is sad. In this artwork, I used a lot of components that we can find in the badminton field to show how much I love badminton.
Matthew J
Me
This artwork describes myself in great detail by using drawings to implicitly convey my own personality. In my artwork, I drew a body which shows that it is me. When zoomed in, the head has a brain with certain segments and texts which describes what my main thoughts are most of the time, my hobbies, etc. When zoomed in even closer, it shows a mountain I took over the holidays (Mt. Cook, New Zealand’s highest mountain over 3700m in elevation) with my face at the bottom. This gives symbolism of my ambition, as climbing a tall, steep mountain is an ambitious challenge/task.The artist that inspired me is Frida Kahlo because of her self-expressive symbolism shown throughout her paintings, which uses symbolism to implicitly present her feelings, thoughts, ideas, etc.
Juan
Northern Joseon
The economy of modern “Juche” in DPRK.
Hannah
My Dreamworld
"Dreams is full of mystery and magic… Do not try to understand them."Roald Dahl, The BFGEveryone dreams some forget and some don’t. Dreams differ for everyone, some have abstract dreams, some have realistic dreams while some have surreal dreams. What would a glimpse in your dream world look like? Personally, I always imagined my dream world to look surreal. I always thought of it as something funky, fun and ‘me’. By ‘me’ I mean my likes, things I think of, and who am I as a person. Therefore, my artwork mostly focuses on how I imagine my dream world to be.
K
Days in the Farm
In my artwork, I intended to juxtapose the products that we drink, eat and use in our daily lives to show where they originally came from. Exploitation is the word I convey within the image. Although we might not realise it, many trees have been cut down for paper, chickens raised in farms only to lay eggs and cows for milk and leather. Yet, we waste these valuable things because we throw away paper carelessly, as seen in the crumpled papers scattered about. All these products amount to money, as money comes and goes, like flying birds. By being more aware of the things happening around us, we can help lessen the harsh effect on the animals by simply not wasting the products.
Jason
Shoot For Your DREAMS
I have always had fun when playing basketball and I have always wished that I would always improve and be good at the sport, this was my source of inspiration. Basketball is one of my many sources of happiness. Through this artwork, my intention was to send a message which is "Shoot for your dreams, although it would be hard.” This message was symbolized through me shooting a basketball and a flight of stairs in-front of me.
Dhruv
Golfaxe
My picture was me holding an axe which was supposed to act as a golf stick and the golf ball was a tree which means that the golf stick has to hit the tree. This indirectly appeals to deforestation. This was intended to give a message on deforestation.
Chatherine
My Dream
My surrealism is about how we can reach our dreams. In my picture there are 2 animals that I really want to ride. If I see 2 of the animals it can make me happy. My message in this surrealism is you can reach your dream if you work hard for it.
Thomas
Darkest Dreamer
Meaning in my artwork is about racism. Reason I chose racism, because I had experienced unfairness. Humans are the same and it doesn’t matter with the skin colour. Humans should be fair and we can’t compare only watching or looking at their skin colour.
Stanis
Bored
The pandemic is quite a problem recently so in my art work I did it to give people ideas of things to do at home while the pandemic is going on. I did this by showing pictures and other things that represent it. I first found this idea because the things that I do now at home while in this pandemic are basically the same each day so I wanted to discover things that I haven’t done.
Fred
Don’t Give Up
My message is ‘Don’t give up’ and I get inspired about Faker, and Haksal, who is a pro-gamer. Faker and Haksal were very interested in the game, so their dream job was a pro gamer. But their parents didn’t accept them to be a pro gamer. But they didn't give up and kept trying to grow their game skill. And finally they come to be a pro gamer and be famous. That is reason I get inspired for them.
Nicholas
Stuck in my Imagination
My surreal artwork is trying to give the viewer a glimpse into what I like and enjoy in my life, which is being helped by the overall color I used in my artwork (which are bright colors).
Sherry
Ashley J
Jordan
Dillon
Erwin
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