Gayle Clearwater BVA2

Research 30/04/2019 bva203 week Ten William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Vendangeuse (Grape Picker), 1875 https://www.bouguereau.org/   The original painting was oil on canvas 140 × 63 cm (55.1 × 24.8 ″) original size William-Adolphe Bouguereau 1825-1905 French academic painter.   His genre was realistic painter and mythological themes were modern interpretation of classical subjects with strong emphasis on the female body.   Near the end of his life he described his love of his art, "Each day I go to my studio full of joy; in the evening when obliged to stop because of darkness I can scarcely wait for the next morning to come if I cannot give myself to my dear painting I am miserable". He painted eight hundred and twenty-six paintings.   ("William-Adolphe Bouguereau - Biography - bouguereau.org," n.d.) The girl is holding a wooden basket fill of red (purple) and green grapes and as the basket...

History29/04/2019 bva212 week Nine Check blackboard for updated schedule for field trip and assessment European Art  Movements that influenced New Zealand Artists Read online book  Colonial Constructs : European Images of the Maori, 1840-1914 Leonard Bell Bell, Leonard. Colonial Constructs : European Images of the Maori, 1840-1914, Auckland University Press, 2014. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/sitlibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1411758. § Look through Leonard Bell’s book Colonial constructs : European images of maori , 1840-1914 § Find two artists you would like to investigate further and create a short bio on PowerPoint.   § Include personal details, examples of their work in New Zealand,and locate them in context (what were they doing in New Zealand, where were they from, what art movement influenced them, etc )

Research 02/04/2019 bva203 week Eight

Theory 01/04/2018 bva 213 week Eight https://artmuseum.pl/en/doc/video-performans-i-sfera-publiczna-2 Part One Social Practice and the public "Its never to late to say sorry"  Rotterdam 2011 They had a display in the center of Rotterdam and the participants took photos and videos of the public who were on looking.  At noon at guy came and took the sculpture out used it was a mega phone and said "Its never to late to say sorry"and then put it back and left the area.  Art by Elmgreen and Dragset.   (social activist artists) Part Two Social Practice and social support Part Three Social Practice and social theory Part Four Social Practice across the arts This relates to my project I wanted to do originally.  Which was the difference between nudity verses naked.  I feel there is not enough time for me to go through the ethics committee etc for my research project to get completed in time.  So I have changed to How Replicate fa...

History 01/04/2019 bva212 week Eight Alfred Gell, Art and Agency (1998) Art and Agency  presents an anthropological theory of art. Gell defines an anthropological theory of art as “social relations in the vicinity of objects mediating social agency” (7). Summary Gell argues that an anthropological theory of art must focus on the social contexts of art . A social approach is needed in order to examine “the social context of art production, circulation, and reception, rather than the evaluation of particular works of art” (3). Production and circulation are sustained by other social processes like exchange , politics , religion , and kinship . An anthropological theory of art should not elucidate western vs. non-western aesthetic systems. This is a cultural approach to art . Moreover, it assumes that a culture has a universal parameter on which art is produced. To understand art , Gell argues historians must examine the social relationships “between participan...