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I have always had an interest in art ever since I was little, which may extend from my mother’s interest in scrapbooking. In high school I took Visual Arts every year besides year 12, and I thoroughly enjoyed doing it.

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I experience new forms of Art through the pages I have liked on my social media accounts. I have liked several new artists emerging upon social media, my favourite being Ben Montero (known as Ben Montero Sketchbook on Facebook) I like this art enough to make it this Padlet background)

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Ben Montero Sketchbook, Athens, Greece. 89K likes. benmontero@gmail.com

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Through my experience of Visual Arts in High School, I have been able to gain knowledge in the forms, as well as the different art movements. The differing forms of art I remember are drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography and from different art movements I remember Dada, Romanticism, Renaissance and Impressionism. My favourite art form to do my self would be of portraits of people, particularly in charcoal as the ability to shade with it is endless.

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Through my experience of Visual Arts, I am able to understand the different perspectives being subjective, cultural, structural and post modern. I also know that when describing a painting we look at different aspects such as:
elements -(e.g colour, value, space, line)
Design - (e.g balance, contrast, emphasis, proportion)
Physical materials -(e.g canvas, brushes, oil paints)
(Wright pp17)

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This piece I created in year 10 Art. The intention of creating of this art work was to focus upon the differing spectrums of colours and how this can create a mood. My example plus another classmates art (using different hues of orange) were used as an example showing how the same painting with different colours can define the mood of the painting.

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Through my high school classes, we also explored Aboriginal Art and how their works were created. We also explored the importance of street art and how it could be use to create a movement that questions what is art and how it could be used. For example we focused upon Banksy and his artwork that separated Israel and Palestine and the social context he was spreading.

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This art form was my first attempt at using ink. This art work was based on a still life.

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Through this current subject, we have already encountered an art form that I have not had previous experience in and that’s the creation of our “sticky tape men”. I gained knowledge in the street artist of Mark Jenkins and in the different techniques he undertakes to be able to create his artwork.

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I am an avid music fan with interest in 90's ska punk and funk. I listen to music every day to study and while driving. I have started a record collection, collecting all my favourite bands which are available, with many of the modern bands I do like not being available on vinyl.

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I experience new music through the exploration of different bands and songs on YouTube. The most recent artist I have developed a taste for is Thundercat. I also experience the New by exploring Wagga bands by attending Fitz Live.

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Thundercat - 'Them Changes' (Official Video)

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I have very basic knowledge of notes and can read very basic sheet music. I can mention very basic knowledge in relation to them (treble clef and bass clef).
I also have basic knowledge of bass and guitar due to being friends with a musician. He has taught me about the links with the pedals and about the difficulty of slap bass.

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With my very basic knowledge of music, i understand music can be described with terms such as weight, size, stiffness, outward or inward direction (Wright, pp 15

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For the last two years of primary school I took keyboard lessons. I was developing well and before i stopped I had managed to efficiently play with both hands and able to read more complex pieces. Unfortunately I do not remember the complex parts of keyboard and can only play and read very basic music.

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When I was young I had a keen interest in dance. I would watch a dancing show with my mum every Friday night and I would try and join along. This interest encouraged my mum to enter me into classes.

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I have recently experienced a dance sequence that I have never seen before. I found this video through the research of one of my other subjects which looks at the history of the media, which includes old movie stars like Judy Garland who was both a singer and a dancer. This video I found interesting as it looks very pleasing as well as very complicated.

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Judy Garland & Gene Kelly - Ballin' the Jack

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I was very young when I did dance, so I do not remember much of what I did learn. I remember us learning the metaphor of feelings in contribution with dance. So if we are asked to show a dance move that expresses us being big, we would stretch up onto our tippy toes and try to be big. The arts often involve such body-based metaphors (Wright pp 14)

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My friends took part in dance in high school and they have let me know about the harder techniques and styles of dance. They expressed how important it is to have your body positioned right to keep the feeling of the dance correct. (e.g. If doing a dance about robots, your body would be rigid)

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I experience drama through my life with the movies/TV shows I watch, and the advertisements I view.  My favourite movies/TV shows are of the sci-fi genre

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I would experience drama by attending the drama productions of my high-school and occasionally plays at the civic theater. I realise the talent and different techniques actors have to acquire to be able to take part of these productions.

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I do not have any experience in drama throughout my life. Mikaela and I recently undertook an improv drama game called "Yes and". This game is the opening of my physical experience into drama, and I’m excited to learn more in future EMA tutorials.

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We are more exposed to the media today than any other time passed due to the introduction of technology such as mobile phones and computers, which makes exposure a few taps away. My exposure to media currently is through social media apps such as Facebook and Snapchat. My previous experience includes the Graphics subject elected in high school which required me to have skills in many different computing software.

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I experience new Media art through the emergent through the ever ending introduction of different apps. Learning to use Padlet has been my latest task in learning a media art.

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Through high school, I took the elective subjective Graphics. Graphics was a computer based class where I has to learn different computer programs such as Auotcad, Google Sketch up, Creo Elements, and Photoshop. I did enjoy graphics, but however it wasn't an option to do passed year 10 so I do not remember the technical terms for each program.

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I have unfortunately lost most of my work for the work I did In graphics besides one. I used Creo elements to create this sports bottle, To create this sports bottle I had to make many different pieces and then join them at the end. This picture is missing the cap we had for the sports bottle and I would not know how to create it now.

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Wright, S. (Ed) 2011. Children, meaning-making, and the arts, 2nd ed.  Pearson Australia.

Ryan, M. & Healy, A. (2008). ‘Art’efacts of knowing : multiliteracies and the arts. In A. Healy (Ed.), Multiliteracies and diversity in education : new pedagogies for expanding landscapes (pp. 82-125). South Melbourne, Vic. : Oxford University Press.