Task 1 - Tom Roberts

Tom Roberts was an English artist who moved to Australia, he was well known for bringing the style of Impressionism to Australia. Impressionism is a technique that involves using very bright colours and short brush strokes to show the effect of light on different objects in the paintings.

Step 1 - Eugene von Guerard

Eugene von Guerard came to Australia in 1852 but even though he was already an artist he didn't start painting in Australia immediately, instead he became a gold-digger. He later became a working artist again painting properties and such. In the early 1980'2 von Guerard was far more famous for his landscape paintings. He painted these with remarkably shadowy lighting and in-depth detail.

Step 1 - John Glover

John Glover was an English/Australian artist who has been dubbed the Father Of Australian Landscape Painting. He came to New Zealand in 1831 on his 64th birthday and began painting Australian landscapes. He is best known for his Tasmanian paintings with which he brought a fresh new outlook on Australian landscapes by using the sunlight he saw to make the paintings bright and clear unlike the old English style. Clovers painting were also far more accurate representations of the landscape, especially his trees which were characterised as having flowing branches and limbs.

Step 1 - Gloria Petyarre

Gloria Petyarre is an Aboriginal artist born in 1945. Glorias painting style is unique and uses her imagination to depict stories and her understanding of the traditional country surrounding her. Her Bush Medicine paintings are examples of this style.

Step 1 - Artist Table Sally Harrison

Sally Harrison - Sally Harrison lived a tough life, she became a member of the stolen generation when she was 13 months old and didn't meet her mother again for 43 years. She had a white father and, being half half, she was expected to act like a white woman. She began painting when she was 10 and to her it felt like painting became "a means of escape and a healing tool." Sally Harrison often uses a technique that involves simply looking at the basic shapes and getting the painting colours down then moving over it in layers, and when the painting is finished she goes over the backgrounds and adds an aboriginal style dot-painting theme to it, like in these paintings.

Sirous Shaghaghi - The Skulls

b) This image was made slowly and carefully, the whole canvas material was painted black in layers to make it nice and dark. The skulls were then painted on layer by layer to build up depth and make them more realistic.
c)The background is very deep and dark and the skulls have a great deal of contrast, addin gthe impact and standing out. However the skulls are a simular tone of colour so they fit in well with the black and don't look extremely abstract and strange.
d) The meaning of this image is so hard to discern, there are so many different possibilities. It dosen't look sad or frightening, merely there, just existing. It could mean that death is simply nothing, just plain, easy simple, it dosen't feel like anything.

Skulls

It was really hard to get any pictures of this one because it was so big, I had to stand on the opposite side of room which also meant that I had to wait for people to move. But it was only on a single story so I didn't have to crane the camera up too much, and I managed to these pictures at least, which aren't too bad.