Contemporary Landscapes
For this semester of art you will be exploring the theme of contemporary landscapes. Contemporary means, in the now, art that is happening now and in the recent past, around 200 years ago.
You will explore and discover what you think landscape art is.
Can you see the landscape in this artwork by local artist Kim Buck?
You will explore and discover what you think landscape art is.
Can you see the landscape in this artwork by local artist Kim Buck?
It could be:
- Texture - leading to experiments with media
- Traditional landscape - learning techniques
- The small details or the overall landscape
- Natural science
- An Issue eg. deforestation, impacts humans have on the land, extinction etc.
- Appreciation of nature
- Urban landscapes
- Aerial view - like Menglers view. Many Aboriginal artworks are maps and ‘look down’ on the land.
- Your experiences of living in the country or from the excursion
Artist list to get you started:
- Albert Namatjira
- Albert Tucker - texture
- Brett Whiteley - Semi Abstract, iconic Australian scenes
- Cheryl-Anne Brown - texture
- Clifford Possum
- Danie Mellor - Blue and white drawings of Australiana
- Dianne Jones - appropriation of Shearing the Rams
- Dorothy Napangardi
- Emily Kame Kngwarreye
- Ernst Haeckel - illustrator. Natural science
- Frederick Ruysch - Dutch botanist
- Fred Williams
- Gloria Petyarre
- Hans Heysen
- Heidelberg School Artists
- James Gleeson - Surrealism. A bit dark, response to war.
- Jeannie Baker - environmental theme. collage, sea weed
- Jeffery Smart - Urban landscapes
- Jessie Trail - 1900s, Australian, dilemma of nature taken by industry
- John Glover- colonial artist
- John Coburn - shape and colour
- John Firth-Smith
- John Olsen
- John Perceval
- John Wolseley - Illustrative, watercolours and printing
- Joshua Yeldham
- Judith Wright - minamalist paintings
- Karen Gunderson - black waves, the image only appears when there is light shining on the artwork.
- Kathleen Petyarre
- Ken Done - bright colours, Sydney Opera house
- Kim Buck
- Lauren King - continuing to a photo with drawing
- Lin Onus - political
- Makinti Napanangka
- Margaret Wood Ward - semi abstract
- Nikolas Demasi - textural
- Nicola Dickson - animals, plants and history of Australia
- Pro Hart - Semi abstract
- Queenie McKenzie
- Richard Bell - contemporary
- Rover Thomas
- Russel Drysdale
- Sally Morgan - bright colours
- Shirley Purdie
- Sydney Nolan - Ned Kelly. Bare land.
- Samuel Thomas Gill - 1818-1880. traditional watercolour, narrative
- Scott Hartshorne - KI artist. Plant specimen paintings
- Sydney Long - art nouveu influence
- Tim Knowles - attaches pencils to trees
- Tim Storrier - Surreal. Fire.
- Thom Buchanan - urbanscapes mixed with natural
- Tommy McRae - early, simple drawings
- Yvonne Koolmatrie - weaving
Tim Storrier
Brooks Salzwedel, Reflection, mixed-media, 2010
Joshua Yeldham, Lion Island - Pittwater, oil and cane on carved board, 2012
Kim Buck, Lithology 1, 2011, charcoal on paper, 62.0 x 95.0cm
Kim’s work Lithology, is a five-panelled, three-metre long charcoal drawing that explores an emotional landscape via the human form.
At first glance Kim Buck’s new work suggests an episode from a rehearsal room, as slowed dancers feel gravity working through their bodies. We recognise the contemporaneity of the models, their forms signifying a modern malaise, a preference for abstinence in the face of abundance, raw cotton garments worn in rejection of affluence. Like a void produced in a bell jar, atmosphere has been sucked from the room, but an understanding between the performers and their choreographer persists. Surely this is a despairing dance for our times?
Excerpt from John Kean’s essay in the Heartland catalogue.
At first glance Kim Buck’s new work suggests an episode from a rehearsal room, as slowed dancers feel gravity working through their bodies. We recognise the contemporaneity of the models, their forms signifying a modern malaise, a preference for abstinence in the face of abundance, raw cotton garments worn in rejection of affluence. Like a void produced in a bell jar, atmosphere has been sucked from the room, but an understanding between the performers and their choreographer persists. Surely this is a despairing dance for our times?
Excerpt from John Kean’s essay in the Heartland catalogue.
Thom Buchanan, Repeat Run Through, Acrylic & oil on canvas
Dorothy Napangardi Warlpiri artist, acrylic paint
Karen Gunderson, The Baltic Revisited, 2011, Oil on canvas
Photography
Sculpture
- Ansel Adams - photography
- Emma Hack - photography and body painting
- Matt Wisniewski
- Janet Ayliffe - printmaker
- Kate Breakey - photography
- Nici Cumpston - hand coloured photography
- Tracey Moffatt - photographer. narrative
Sculpture
- Aili Schmeltz - string cities
- Annalise Rees
- Andy Goldsworthy - nature installations
- Angela Valamanesh - ceramics
- Amy Joy Watson - local, emerging artist
- Cal Lane - lace shovels
- Chris Drury
- Christo and Jeanne Claude - large fabric installations
- Fiona Hall
- Janine Mackintosh - KI artist. Uses found materials
- Jason deCaires Taylor - underwater installations
- Michael Heizer - land artist
- Motoi Yamamoto - salt labyrinths
- Tara Donovan - everyday materials
- Robert Smithson - spiral jetty
- Richard Long - walking as art, rock installations
- Sandra Cinto - paper boats that everyone who visits the gallery folds & wave drawings
Julie Blyfield, hammered metal
Tim Knowles, pen attached to trees on paper
Andy Curlowe, mixed media.
Tara Donovan, Untitled, mylar and glue, 2007