Q1 Describe the aesthetic elements in photography used in plate 1. (5 marks) Plate 1 Wolfgang Sievers Untitled Q1. Point Answers The image is a photograph. The image portrays the city skyline reaching into the sky leaving the viewer feeling as if they were standing at the foot of the building looking up into the heavens. The artist focuses heavily on the aesthetic elements of photography, for example line, shape, tone, composition. The artist uses line and shape to make this photograph successful. The artist uses the diagonal zig- zag created by the building skyline to create an interesting negative shape which leads the viewer s eye into the sky. The artist uses the black and white tones to contrast between the buildings and the sky. The artist has deliberately taken the photograph in a portrait format to maximize the negative shape and line created left by the skyline.
Q2 Look at plates 2 and 3. How do these artworks focus on the structural frame? Make specific references to both plates in your response. (10 Marks) Plate 2 Wolfgang Sievers Braun Transworld Corp 1955 Plate 3 Steven Lojewski Untitled #9 2003, from Boulevard of Dreams Series Q2. Point Answers Both plates are photographs. Plate 2 focuses on the use of line, tone and shape and the rule of thirds. Plate 3 also utilises line, shape, the compositional technique rule of thirds and the use of colour. The artist Wolfgang Sievers has used the symbolic imagery of a typical industrial building site and created an interesting photograph. Siever has utilised the strong lines
and shapes created by the machinery and building, which has in stark contrast with the soft tones of the clouds floating in the background. Steven Lojewski has used the strong angled lines of the street in the foreground of the picture to lead your eye into the centre of the picture. The strong vertical line meeting the angled line leads your eye further into the picture which makes you wonder what would be lurking around the corner of this strange street scene. Q3 Look at plates 4 and 5. How do these artworks focus on the subjective frame? Make specific references to both plates in your response. (10 Marks) Plate 4 Martin Parr Blue Lady, Benidorm, Spain 1997, from the Common Sense Series Plate 5 Shayne Higson All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go 2000, from the New Horizons Series
Q3. Point Answers Plate 4 portrays a lady sun-baking with special glasses which reduce glare from the sun. The lady appears as red as a lobster from sitting in the sun all day. The artist Matin Parr makes you feel as though you are being burnt and turning red by using the blue of the towel to contrast against the red of the ladies skin. Plate 4 makes you feel like you are at the beach sun-baking. Plate 4 makes you feel as though you are relaxed and asleep sun-baking on the beach. You can see the damage being caused by the sun as it burns you. In contrast plate 5 has the opposite effect. The artist Shayne Higson makes you feel as though you have been swept away in the river. The floating clothes and the absence of the human figure on the water makes you wonder where the person has gone. Plate 5 makes you feel alone and alienated. In plate 5 the colours make you feel somber and reflective, almost in a dream like state. Q4 Write about plate 6 using all 4 frames. Make specific references to both plates in your response. (15 Marks) Plate 3 Anne Zahalka The Bathers 1989 Photograph Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
Plate 4 Charles Meere Australian Beach Pattern 1940 Oil on Canvas 91.5 x 122cm The Art Gallery of New South Wales Q4. Point Answers Postmodern Anne Zahalka has appropriated the painting by Charles Meere. Zahalka is also challenging the mainstream stereo types of the bronzed aussie by incorporating Australians from everyday normal Australians spending a day at the beach. Subjective Charles Meere has painted a scene which would have been a ypical over crowded day at an Australian beach. Meere makes you feel as if you are part of the crowded beach with all the bodies mving in dfferent directions. Cultural Zahalka has created a new meaning of the Australian Beach Pattern in her work The Bathers, by commenting on the contemporary interpretation of what type of people would be going to the beach in Australia today. Zahalka has done this by recreating the beach scene with the use of modern technology, e.g. a camera, and created a beach scene in a studio with people from various cultural and ethnic groups. Structural The modern use of technology taken by Zahalka challenges the traditional painting technique taken by Meeres.