KU4
Research and acknowledge sources to explore and develop insights into aspects of the visual arts.
Using resources to inform your work
Have you researched your topic? Is it clear through reading your work that you have an informed opinion? Or, are you just speaking from your own mind without looking at other people’s (artists, curators, critics, etc.) perspectives as well?
What are good sources?
Good vs bad research sources
Good: Museums, galleries, artists own website, books at front of room, books in library, The Art Story, artist interviews either found or done by you, Youtube, Vimeo, etc.
Bad:
List of good sources:
Referencing artworks
Harvard referencing
Have you researched your topic? Is it clear through reading your work that you have an informed opinion? Or, are you just speaking from your own mind without looking at other people’s (artists, curators, critics, etc.) perspectives as well?
What are good sources?
Good vs bad research sources
Good: Museums, galleries, artists own website, books at front of room, books in library, The Art Story, artist interviews either found or done by you, Youtube, Vimeo, etc.
Bad:
- Blogs (although are good if they include an interview of the artist)
- Wikipedia
- Social Media
List of good sources:
- The Art Story: https://www.theartstory.org/
- MOMA: https://www.moma.org/
- MONA: https://mona.net.au/
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/
- NGA: https://nga.gov.au/
- AGSA: https://www.agsa.sa.gov.au/education/resources-educators/
- Weebly: http://kapundahigh.weebly.com/the-big-list-of-artists.html
- Weebly: http://kapundahigh.weebly.com/the-big-list-of-designers.html
Referencing artworks
Harvard referencing
Under each and every artwork you include in your work from an artist you must reference the artist, otherwise you are breaching copyright. The format is:
Artist's name, Title of the artwork, year, medium, size
Sometimes it is not possible to find all of the information, especially for lesser know, more recent work. If the work is from a historical art movement, you will be able to find the details!
Tip: If you like an artwork, but the website doesn't contain these details a way to search for them is to use an image search. Drag the image of the artwork into the Google search bar when in image search mode and it will search for all images similar to the one selected.
Artist's name, Title of the artwork, year, medium, size
Sometimes it is not possible to find all of the information, especially for lesser know, more recent work. If the work is from a historical art movement, you will be able to find the details!
Tip: If you like an artwork, but the website doesn't contain these details a way to search for them is to use an image search. Drag the image of the artwork into the Google search bar when in image search mode and it will search for all images similar to the one selected.
If your bibliography doesn't look like this, then you are not doing it right. You should have a long list of sources to show that you have researched your topics. You should also include sources for all of the images you have used throughout your Visual Study.