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Unpacking the Concept

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Unpacking the Concept

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  1. Unpacking the Concept CONCEPT This unit will explore the concept of the ‘Ideal World’, this can be a personal focus artistically portraying your ideal existence or it can take on a socio-cultural perspective depicting issue such as a world without poverty or wars. This concept could encompass a representation of paradise on Earth or a fictitious world more surreal or futuristic. What is your idea of an ideal world? Is it a world without fear, without pain, without suffering? In a world with growing fear and pessimism we are losing hope for future generations. It is time that the younger generation captures a more hopeful vision of what the world they are inheriting could be. The nature of this concept is open ended; do not limit yourself to the obvious such as Utopia, Paradise or Love, look beyond the cliché to visually express your interpretation of a perfect life or place.

  2. Context • The context can be thought of as a lens that you view your focus through • Personal - relating to a specific person rather than anyone else - their life, their opinion • Sociocultural - relating to or involving cultural and social factors • Society -The totality of social relationships among humans. A group of humans broadly distinguished from other groups by mutual interests, participation in characteristic relationships, shared institutions, and a common culture. • Culture - The totality of socially transmitted behaviour patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought. These patterns, traits, and products considered as the expression of a particular period, class, community, or population: Australian Teen culture; Japanese culture; the culture of poverty. The predominating attitudes and behaviour that characterize the functioning of a group or organization. • Geographical – place on Earth; your physical environment • Historical - existing, happening, or relating to the past. • Spiritual -relating to the soul or spirit, usually in contrast to material things; relating to religious or sacred things rather than worldly things. • Scientific/Technical- the study, development, and application of devices, machines, and techniques for manufacturing and productive processes • Psychological -relating to the mind or mental processes; the characteristic temperament and associated behaviour of a person or group, or that exhibited by those engaged in an activity

  3. Focuses A focus is a concentrated effort or attention on a particular thing, an area of concern, or investigation.

  4. Body of Work A body of works is a collection of investigative artpieces leading to a single or “major” work/s. The body of work shows your progress through the inquiry learning model (researching, developing, resolving, reflecting), as you integrates the components of the course (concept, focus, context, media area(s) and visual language and expression). You should be basing your artist practice on the Inquiry Learning Model

  5. Inquiry Learning Model

  6. Where to Find Artists and Inspiration http://www.artquotes.net/artists.htm World Wide Web Many interactive and static websites include useful resources and can be used to enhance a course in Visual Art. Many museums, galleries and universities have websites which can be accessed through a range of search engines. Some other particularly useful sites for Visual Art include: www.artwhatson.com.au/ Visual arts portal www.artsinfo.net.au/ Australian government arts information portal www.art-almanac.com.au/ Art Almanac, identifying Australian galleries www.nga.gov.au National Gallery of Australia www.artlex.com/ Visual Arts dictionary www.artcyclopedia.com/ Search engine for Art information

  7. Artist and other inspirations I Have found Next 13 slides

  8. DU XINJIAN ARTIST'S STATEMENT While I am painting, ideas jump out from my mind like dreams, and I try to capture them. This is an attempt to break away from reality. Artists are uniquely gifted in that we can visually express things to others in our artwork that are outside of reality.I was inspired by the writings of the ancient Chinese poet Tao Yuan Ming. He wrote a story about a fantastic journey to an ideal world where people are very comfortable and happy. It is a story about a utopian paradise, written about 2000 years ago. But, in the end, the voyager was forced to return to reality. The world in my paintings embodies all kinds of human desires and ideas. My dreamscapes are meant to evoke an "absent-mindedness" towards reality. The paintings also contain some modern elements, which you can see in parts of my paintings, such as jeans, computers, modern sunglasses, etc. These fragments of reality symbolize an interruption of the society within my paintings. In a way they are jokes, but they are also a method to understand the world. They bring us back to the reality from which all artwork is based. http://www.duxinjian.com/contemporary-chinese-art.html#

  9. Andy Goldsworthy (born 26 July 1956) is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist living in Scotland who produces site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings. Goldsworthy regards all his creations as transient, or ephemeral. He photographs each piece once right after he makes it. His goal is to understand nature by directly participating in nature as intimately as he can. Goldsworthy almost worships the perfectness of nature, manipulates his media but keepings its integrity. He generally works with whatever comes to hand: twigs, leaves, stones, snow and ice, reeds and thorns. 

  10. Franz Ehmann Image above: performance documentation, Artspace, Sydney, 2007 Franz Ehmann's forever young was a sculptural text food performance event with materials akin to theatre props. The materiality of the space was staged, its language the voice of bleak humour. The new message reverberated in a never-ending forever young. I am with you, for you and amongst you. In forever young, objects will be used as theatre props—a floor laid with a thin membrane of newspapers will form the main stage of the performance, and an interface between linguistic territory and semiotic space. http://www.realtimearts.net/article/issue79/8581

  11. THE ART OF DANIEL GAUTIERThe Key to understanding our artwork as well as, ultimately, all art and nature, is the Principle of the LOGOS. The Logos is an idea that has been crucial to various mystical traditions and idealist philosophical systems. For our purposes, the Logos is best defined as the proportional, harmonic, cosmic Seed Pattern which underlies and generates all material form. From this omnipotent Pattern all creation arises. This Template is abstract and quasi-numerical in nature. It is transcendent and inviolate, yet at the same time immanent and near, implicit in every human conception, concealed in every natural form. For these reasons, art, symbol and number have often been used to describe the nature of the Logoic Seed Pattern and its ineffable Forces.The Logos has been variously identified, in either threefold, fourfold, or fivefold Form, by some of the greatest philosophical and spiritual Masters: Moses, Buddha, Pythagoras, Plato, Plotinus, Proclus, Boehme, Coleridge and Blake. According to these Masters, the whole of the cosmos emanates from this Metaphysical Model. This timeless Seed is locked in the innermost Soul of every woman and man, driving humanity subconsciously forward, giving shape to all men’s actions and desires. http://dgautier.com/id9.html Female in Gold Ring (2005) -Acrylic on Canvas

  12. Artist's Statement by Jim Wolford-Ulrich The noblest aims of art, in my opinion, include helping people see the world in a fresh way and — through heightened awareness — live their life differently. As a photographer, I feel I have been successful if, after seeing my pictures, people are more aware of the incredible richness this world holds — and open their eyes to see and appreciate it.

  13. Romanticism | Art Movement Romanticism began in the late 18th century and ended in the mid 19th century. The Romantic movement can be described as a reaction against Neoclassicim in which the style is full of emotion and beauty with many individualistic and exotic elements. Romantic art portrays emotions painted in a bold and dramatic manner, and there is often an emphasis on the past. Romantic artists often use melancholic themes and dramatic tragedy. Paintings by famous Romantic artists such as Gericault and Delacroix are filled with energetic brushstrokes, rich colours, and emotive subject matters. Artist:Eugene DelacroixArtist's Lifespan: 1798-1863Title: Liberty Leading the PeopleDate:1830Location of Origin: FranceMedium:Oil on canvasOriginal Size: approx. 8 ft 6 in x 10 ft 8 inStyle:RomanticismGenre:HistoryLocation: Louvre, Paris http://www.arthistoryguide.com/Romanticism.aspx

  14. IDEAL WORLD story by Weidong Chen, art by Chao Peng Time and again, A You finds himself chasing a mysterious rabbit through his dreams. But before he can reach out and grab it…his mother is shaking him awake for another day of work. A You’s not exactly thrilled with his job at the factory, so when a persistent streak of bad luck leaves him unemployed, it seems like a great opportunity to start over. The trouble is, A You doesn’t have anything to move on to. With no goals or aspirations, A You roams the city searching for direction. Deep in thought on one of his strolls, A You suddenly rouses himself only to discover he’s lost in the woods. He catches sight of a rabbit, and in desperation follows it through the forest. But this scene seems familiar…Is it a dream? Or could there truly be an ideal world within the darkness?

  15. Spork-sama is a young male living in the USA Artist's Comments This was a project I did for school. I did not come up with the text. We were given the two paragraphs of text and we were told to illustrate something with the feeling of both the idea of the real and the ideal concept of the world. Submitted: March 10, 2004

  16. Artist's Comments for D Nitsche's Conceptual Contest;here's the link: [link]this is no collage, it's all glued together in real life with scoch on 2 sheets of paper-one black and one white;thelightbulb was slighlty rotated in PSP CS2 'cause it wasn't parallel with the horizon(doooh),used clone tool for some corrections,somemasks,contrast and USM;and now the concept: my inspiration was in a few lines from a song:Make me beautiful,A perfect mind,A perfect soul,A perfect face,A perfect ... lie.It's about plastic surgery and the way people choose to change, physically; it can also have a lot of other meanings, I personally see more than one; the lightbulb represents life; it's about changing, about masks...Anyway, that's what and how I see it monik_mausik@yahoo.com Current Residence:Bucharest,Romania A Perfect Lie Submitted: July 30, 2007

  17. Idealword.org is fortnightly updated with new drawings and texts. IdeaWord was published on the Internet in August 2003 and since then its contents have been regularly expanded.• IdealWord is a product of the new artistic societies and its aim is to raise doubts within the digital art field. http://www.idealword.org

  18. Before you point the fingerAnd hope the whole thing disappearsRemember empty words will fallAnd fall upon the deafest earshe won't give in without a fightAnd foul play without a doubtNo silver lining to be seenIn this thundercloudOh tha't's not allowedIn the ideal worldWe'd be free to chooseBut in my real worldYou can't bat we're going to loseYour money fills your pocketsFear fills their tiny mindsAt last the world is talking nowThis ain't no way to treat mankindA sudden blackout stops the showBut doesn't stop the way I am'Cause all my life I've been oppressedYou're not the first to say I amI do all I canFor an Ideal worldWhere we're free to chooseBut in my real worldYou can't bat we're going to loseWe could be free foreverIf they would only changeBut fools never changeOh no, no Song Lyrics • A peak of blue in the skyA song of hope, a noble thoughtBut how long must the people dieBefore the guilty ones spare a thoughtFor an Ideal worldWhere we're free to chooseFor an ideal worldAnd we're no longer born to loseIn the ideal worldWe could start againNow in my real worldLet's put an end to sufferingEnd sufferingIn the ideal worldWe're now free to chooseWe are safe to air our viewsIn the ideal worldWe could start againNow in my real worldIt matters not about the colour of your skinIdeal worldFree to chooseIdeal worldOh, there much a man can doIdeal worldStart again in an deal worldWe're going to start again the christians

  19. Susie Salmon a 14 yo is abducted by George Harvey, a man in his mid-40s. He rapes and then murders her, dismembering her body and putting it in a safe. Susie's spirit flees toward her personal heaven. She moves on into the larger heaven, still watching earthbound events from time to time. I love Susie’s reflections on the simple things that we do in our everyday lives that are so wonderful and we take for granted. “free of three great evils: boredom, vice and necessity". “we must cultivate our garden".

  20. Elisabeth Lecourt When you look at a map, it is the most mundane thing in the world, a thing that just helps you get from A to B.  But in the context of a dress - doesn't it look like the most intricate and personal pattern.  This dress by the French-born artist Elisabeth Lecourt who studied at Central St. Martins and RCA, is part of a working series entitled 'Les Robes Geographiques'.  To date, Lecourt has pressed and ironed 60 of these map garments.  The point of them is that these maps take the shapes of clothing to represent the wearer's habitat and identity.  Of course they aren't made to be worn but rather, hung as pieces of art

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