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A View from an Apartment by Jeff Wall 2004 – 2005 Transparency in lightbox 167 x 244 cm
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/wall-a-view-from-an-apartment-t12219

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Paul Rand & UPS_Miro mind map_screen capture

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Batak Girl by Ng Eng Teng (undated)

Ciment fondu

60 x 45 x 24cm

National Gallery Singapore

https://www.roots.gov.sg/Collection-Landing/listing/1034877

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1960, Batik, 73 x 88 cm
Sarong Making Shop

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1979
Oil on Canvas

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1936
Oil on canvas
129 x 194.3 cm

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Refer to this file for the scope and requirements of the syllabus and images of all the artworks in the syllabus.

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This fille contains the artworks to focus on in Term 1.

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Glossary of art terms_SOVA 101_highlights

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Individually and/or in pairs, refer to the links in "SOVA for 2023" come up with a list of words, phrases to
1) describe and analyse the use of visual qualities, e.g. colours/light/shapes/texture/space/ perspective/composition etc in the work [what do you see visually and what effect does that visual aspect contribute to the overall work?]

2) detail the materials and processes / techniques used in the creating of the work

3) explain the artists' intentions and ideas in the creating of the work.

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Teaching video on Affandi's 3 Expressions

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Teaching video on Affandi's 3 Expressions

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Describe and analyse - Nardyne, Qaisarah

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Describe and analyse - Nardyne, Qaisarah

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1) Dominant Curve is an oil painting. The artwork is  colourful and abstract. The artist uses many geometric and organic shapes in this work. The artwork shows many shapes in a very rhythmic and flowy form.

2) Kandinsky used oil paints for this artwork, using lighter palettes as well as using more organic imagery (softer, more malleable shapes), using lesser geometric shapes

3) Kandinsky was fascinated by biomorphic forms as well as organic sciences, particularly embryology, zoology as well as botany. In his Dominant Curve painting, a light pink embryo-like shape can be seen on the upper right side of the painting , while the figures contained in the top left side green rectangle of the painting are to resemble marine animals. These buoyant, animal-like images presented in pastel colours, can be seen as his vision for a peaceful future or recovery because at the time, he was forced to leave Germany due to political pressures.

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the place shows the inner and outer exterior of the house.

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Subject matter
This batik painting shows people working in a sarong shop, the painting design showing how sarongs are made by batik. The artist Chuah Thean Teng combined Chinese and malay visual cultures by combining the essence of batik painting with his own Chinese Ink paintings using his own xie-yi style. Both visual styles aim to depict motifs in a stylized or abstract manner, in order to to capture the essence of the subject matter rather than depicting them realistically.

Visual aspects
What makes this artwork so intriguing would be it's reliability on rhythemic artwork.
Colours
The colours are very warm using neutral colours such as red and yellow.

Batik is usually drawn first by wax, that may be a reason why to the people in the painting have intricate wavy white lines to symbolize wax and the colour afterwards is following the process of batik painting. From the painting, maybe it shows the whole process of batik weavving starting from a man hanging the batiks to a woman carrying  the batiks in a basket.

Anushri and Alya

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1)This is a sculpture of one of the people of northern part of Sumatra, also known as Batak. The medium of the sculpture is ciment fondu. The background is a lighter gray compared to the dark gray sculpture, making the sculpture stand out. The sculpture uses different forms such as a sphere for the head and a cylinder for the neck. The elongated neck places emphasis on the head, the sculpture's texture is extremely rough due to the use of ciment fondu. Ciment fondu is usually used for industrial purposes, however in this case it is used for art.

2)Ng Eng Teng used ciment fondu and sculpted the sculpture, ciment fondu dries within 24 hours so he had to work on this sculpture fast enough. However, he also could easily repair the sculpture using ciment fondu.

3)The artist was interested in Indonesia's influence after his holiday in Medan. As the batak girl was wearing traditional clothing and a traditional headpiece, something uncommon in other countries but interesting as it is common in Northern Sumatra.

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This is an oil painting of three men. Each of these men are painted with different colours such as yellow, green and red. They also have different emotions in the colours. When we look closer to the painting, these three men are actually the same person. Affandi is reflecting and showing parts of his life through colours. Each emotion is represented by a certain colour. yellow which is known for a bright and vibrant colour with a little mixture of brown represent happiness. While blue with a mixture of green usually represents sadness and worried. Lastly red represents anger. The artist has a very unique way to create his painting as seen on this oil painting. He uses oil pastels and scribble across his painting. He usually complete his paintings in a short time as he paints by squeezing the paint directly from its tube onto the canvas.

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1) The logo represent a gift and a shield. The shield is the one with a ups. Through the shield they want to show that they have the best security to ensure the quality of the package be at its best condition the shield also represent strength and dignity. The gift is then representing the kind of service the provide such as a place to wrap and deliver gifts to friends or relative and another way we can say is like when we buy something online from ourself is like buying a gift for ourself. The colour is white just plain white cause the gift can be any kind and another reason why white is because it looks good.

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1) The logo represent a gift and a shield. The shield is the one with a ups. Through the shield they want to show that they have the best security to ensure the quality of the package be at its best condition the shield also represent strength and dignity. The gift is then representing the kind of service the provide such as a place to wrap and deliver gifts to friends or relative and another way we can say is like when we buy something online from ourself is like buying a gift for ourself. The colour is white just plain white cause the gift can be any kind and another reason why white is because it looks good.

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1) they are casually dressed in a room with chairs, tables, an ironing board. The woman seems to be doing household chores as she is walking towards the laundry basket holding a piece of cloth. The other girl is sitting on the sofa reading a magazine. The room has  a big rectangular window portraying the outside world.

2)  He made sure that the lighting on the inner and outer exterior of the place contrasts with each other. the lines in the picture makes the scene outside stands out as many lines are pointing to it.

3) the artist wanted a room where he could capture the inner and outer exterior of the house. The artist asked the people in the photo to act like how they acted at home.

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There are people casually dressed in a room with chairs, tables, an ironing board, which are all common household furniture. The woman seems to be doing household chores as she is walking towards the laundry basket holding a piece of clothing. The other girl is sitting on the sofa reading a magazine. The room has a big rectangular window portraying the outside world.

The artist made the inside contrast with the outside.
Inside, the lighting contrasts with the scene outside the window, using warmer lights on the inside, and cooler lights on the outside.
The windows which shows the outside is very big and obvious, dominating the artwork, and draws lots of attention.
The interior is designed with very simple colours and looks simple. In contrast to the outside, which shows a very open and somewhat extensive scene.
Every thing was very detailed and clear, even the lighting, reflections and other visual qualities are realistic.

3) the artist wanted a room where he could capture the inner and outer exterior of the house. The artist asked the people in the photo to act like how they acted at home.

SO, i think that the main focus is the window, its is like a border zone for the outside, and inside. There's a big contrasting different from the outside, which is extensive and vast, as compared to the inside, which is cramped and messy. We can also see it as messy on the inside, and calm on the outside. The name of the artwork is 'a view from an apartment', so i also feel that the window is the key focus. Hence, the window should be the focus.

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 he make this work and show to his daughter as he wanted to test the logo design since a logo is made for people to understand and when his daughter said "its a present daddy" he decided it would be a logo. He made this design to make it look new as not to compete with other kinds of parcel company in the united states. 

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 he make this work and show to his daughter as he wanted to test the logo design since a logo is made for people to understand and when his daughter said "its a present daddy" he decided it would be a logo. He made this design to make it look new as not to compete with other kinds of parcel company in the united states. 

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1) This abstract oil painting includes the use of vibrant colours and unique angles of shapes placed bizarrely. There is the overlap of colours and seemingly disordered palette of tones and shades. However still keeping colours simple and plain. There is a distorted rectangular-like form, prominently placed that seems to be the "Dominant Curve" as per the title of this artwork. The artwork has grainy textures and the addition of smaller unique shapes. There seems to be a flight of stairs on the bottom right, giving the artwork an "upward", normal look. This may perhaps seem to symbolise reaching a higher place. However still, having many cluttered shapes surrounding it makes it the unique artwork it is.

2) There is no particular light source, though the larger shapes are brighter while the background shapes are fainter and cloudier, as if fading into the background. Kandinsky used oil paints on canvas. He wanted to move away from Bauhaus geometry, which is a more rigid, quite unlike the softer and curvy shapes we see in the current artwork. Like I said earlier, I was able to see some sort of grainy texture on the canvas. Kandinsky experimented with pigments mixed with sand, to create this artwork filled with these textured surface.

3) Kandinsky had always been fascinated with science, more particularly the biology of cells. The artwork includes seemingly microscopic creatures, with the intention on the theme of transformation along with rebirth, which explains the DNA-like shapes and pink embryo-looking below the three circles on the top hand corner. I think he wanted to draw out the feeling and movement of transformation, which is why these shapes seem to be following a direction- the form it is going to become, which is also why an embryo is shown, on it's way to becoming a newborn.

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Actual GCE paper. Please study the type of questions as they are mostly similar but with differences in the focus areas (e.g. focusing on different elements and principles) applied to different works.

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VNNHcIda6XiqDrNNpUXAEkSe38VCQyf2hEujvOHsTVY/edit?usp=sharing

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SFCCB Wassily Kandinsky Haziq and Winnie

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SFCCB Wassily Kandinsky Haziq and Winnie

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/17Iq6hNl5C8aAyVejR50A9pQXDe9vSgyr3ZWJZxAYSYE/edit#

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hwvnzLGPqz5iG5zEW5YLS44ZOHniLnwUK_Bw-FlCqK8/edi

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Collated notes from your padlet & SFCCB work

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Collated notes from your padlet & SFCCB work

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Collated_padlet_class members' notes_19  Feb 2023

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NoBiESKDgZWuTJ9Aw9wfKOqTD4oixH5Brqq4DemXof0/edit?usp=sharing

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Compare the intentions and processes behind the 2 works

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Compare the intentions and processes behind the 2 works

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Kandinsky and Affandi

Intentions:

What the work is, state for both (still life, object study, landscape, self portrait, portrait)

What is the intention (eg. To create abstract art pieces to convey feelings, etc)

Kandinsky’s work is abstract art and Affandi’s work is a self portrait

Affandi’s intention is to depict a self portrait in different emotions

Impressionism

Abstract impressionism

Must not always have a subject matter

Processes:

Share similar colours

Kandinsky (Yellow circle on the left) :Captures attention, focal point

Use of green: Help to create depth and contrast to the brighter colours, like a background

Affandi: why there is more yellow than the other colours?

To show that he feels more happy than the other emotions in the painting

Affandi: Formalistic - More dynamic, spontaneous, will just paint as he goes along

Kandinsky: Formalistic: Plans how he wants to create the work and how it looks.

Kandinsky’s colours used: Maybe to show his knowledge of colour theory, he was a professor in colour theory

How they used paint, how they made colours:

Affandi: He would squeeze paint from the tube directly on the canvas, raw colours

Kandinsky: He would mix his colours

Kandinsky: He had a condition where he would represent music into his artworks

He would look at organisms through a microscope

In his earlier years, he would represent music through his art, but as he got older he slowly stopped doing so.

How emotion is conveyed:

Affandi: He used colours literally, eg red for anger, yellow for joy

Kandinsky: He used shapes and brush strokes to convey emotions

Kandinsky uses different geometric and organic shapes for different sizes and proportions.

He overlaps them and he arranges them in a somewhat circular direction to create rhythm, this is also expressed in his title ‘Dominant Curve’

Affandi’s brush strokes are very spontaneous and emotional , whereas if I saw Kandinsky’s work i would see it as more calmer and controlled. Kandinsky’s work conveys a certain sense of space from the overlapping colours and use of tones. He used darker colours as a background while the brighter colours are more up front. (Victoria’s space)

Why did Affandi want to make the self portrait: He sees his portraits as a way of reflection

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use topic sentence

subject matter

must answer the question

list as many as possible

not enough time -> 2-3 aspects, compare

Intentions (Type)

for Affandi (self-portrait)
- spontaneous
- depict a self-portrait, diff emotions/expressions
- colours -> emotions
- colour palette -> squeeze from tube, primary colours

for Wassily Kandinsky (abstract art)
- formalistic
- convey certain experience
- yellow -> focus point
- red -> add vibrance
- green -> depth, shadow, 3D effect
- colour palette -> mixing of colours

Processes (HOW)

for Affandi
- brush strokes -> gestural/expressive/spontaneous
- emphasising/depicting -> how a person is -> using faces

for Wassily Kandinsky
- brush strokes -> smooth
- convey by using tone/values -> certain sense of space
- uses organic & geometric shapes of diff sizes and proportions
- overlaying of shapes -> arranges in circular direction & strategic manners -> create rhythm/flow -> expressed in the 'Dominant Curve'
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1) Topic sentence (at least 2-3 aspects, compare)
[INTENSION AND PROCESSES]

- Affandi

self-portrait (Expressive)

[process]
Use of colours to express different human emotions
Yellow = joyful
Green = sorrowful
Red = anger

Expressions like smiling, sulking, staring.

brushstrokes are gestural and spontaneous, depicts how the person is like.

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- Kandinsky

Abstract art to convey certain experience {rhythm} (Formalistic)

[processes]
Uses overlaying of different geometric shapes and organic shapes with different sizes and proportion. Arranged in a somewhat circular direction to create flow / rhythm.
Expressed in the title "dominant curve"

Conveys a certain sense of space, through the use of colours and their tones. overlapping of colours creates the different panes and depths.
For example,
Yellow  = focus point, bold and bright colour
Red = adds vibrance
Green = contrasts, adds depth like as background

Brushstrokes depicts that a person is controlled and calm

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- state their intentions clearly
- phrase properly (e.g. both works share similar colours)
- brush strokes - Affandi(representational lines/ overlaying/ expressive/ curvy, smudging lines) Kandinksy(smooth [sense of harmony]/ controlled/ overlaying of geometric & organic shapes of different sizes and proportions and arranging them in a somewhat circular direction to create flow/ rhythm, as expressed in his title 'Dominant Curve')
- Affandi's work is a self portrait to express his different emotions, which explains the multiple faces
- Affandi uses the colours to represent the emotions in his work (yellow- happiness, joy   green- sorrow, sadness   red-anger)
- yellow circle in Kandinsky's work can be the focus due to bold colour & size
- darker colours function as a background in some way
- positions & proportions
- expressive, dynamic, spontaneous (Affandi) and formalistic, planned (Kandinsky)
- Affandi starts by squeezing paint onto his canvas
- Kandinsky's colours are mixed/ not raw
- Kandinsky's process throughout his art career (start- wanted to express music and stuff   ending- wanted to show the effects of the different brush strokes)
- There is a sense of space due to nice overlapping, not cramped, and use of tones (Kandinksy)
- Light colours seem to be in front, darker colours at the back

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What type of work is this?
Intention:  Self-portrait
What intentions are the artists creating? Affandi wants to showcase an artwork showing his emotions, experiences
Brush strokes are wavy, haphazard way

very spontaneous

Dominant curve (Abstract art)
Talk about colours-Yellow captures your attention as it is a bright and bold colour.

What is his intention-?

Very formalistic -plans the shapes, lines and colours overlaps and arranges them in a somewhat circular flow and rhythm.
Expressed in his tittle dominant curve
Sense of space as by overlapping there is space
What effect?
Intended effect on the viewer?

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Dominant curve (Bcakgroudn info)

Old man grandfather of abstract art

The different colour use to show his intentions

During that time camera was invented it makes it easier for artist to try different kinds of extract art

Learn from photography they take they use strokes from the objects in the picture for their work

Artist analise and breaks down the shape to obtain the abstract art

Abstarct art

.no subject matter

.uses colour and shape to convey artist intention

Each colour represents something

Compare the affandi three expressions with dominant curve  (info on each artwork)

Dominacurve (colour used to show shapes and abstraction)

.Yellow sun brightness the yellow around in the artwork in the influence of the big yellow

.Green Used as contrast to bring up the shapes of the artwork and the three dimensional espect to show.

.Formalistic (shows proper planning of where the colour is and has show that there is a thinking process behind the artwork, colour changes as the colour intersects with each other)

.Tint (colours made to attract and highlight certain points of the artwork)

.develop through years of experience made in his last few years on earth (died in 1944)

.There is a rythm throught the overlaying of the diffrent geometric and organice shapes with different size and proportions. (gives examples like song or music lyrics on how it is like)

.Arranges them in a circular flow or rhythm which s also expressed in his title dominant curve

.Artist is a calm and smooth guy (brush strokes and smooth and gentle with the wide use of different colours)

.Sense of space with overlapping (some artwork looks very cramp but dominant curve has many space in the artwork)

.Uses overlapping and tone to obtain victorious space

Three expressions (colour used for expression)

.Happinesss for yellow (bursh strokes are light and the month and eyebrows show happiness)

.Green is suffer (mounth and eye brows down, brush stroke is mid)

.Red is angry (mess up mouth eyebrows is all over, brush strokes is heavy

.The shape of the face shows expressions

.Overlaying

.Brushstrokes

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Formalistic, deliberate thinking, finger strokes are curvy and smudgy lines that overlay. Intensive and emphasising certain expressions.

Spontaneous, pastel, colour theory. Pioneer of western art history. He likes to represent music in shapes and colours. Different geometric and organic shapes in different sizes and proportions with a rhythm. This is also expressed in the title, Dominant Curve. He uses tone and pictorial space

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General:
1. Need to include topic sentences in the essay.
2. Must answer back to the question

Intentions:
1. Affandi = self-portrait (3 faces with different emotions) = expression of different human emotions
2. Kandinsky = abstract painting
- why? invention of camera challenges the artists' role in depicting reality = artists can now try new things
- want to move away from the representational, believes that art elements can be appreciated on their own = analytical, breaking things down to its most basic element as how he wants things to be experienced.

Processes:
General:
1. Affandi = more spontaneous
2. Kandinsky = - formalistic, deliberate planning

Kandinsky uses different and organic shapes of different sizes and proportions, overlaps them and arranges them in a somewhat circular direction to convey a sense of rhythm/flow and harmony.

Use of colours:
1. Affandi - use of colours to depict emotions (red = anger, yellow = joy etc)
2. Kandinsky = use of colour to create depth and space in the painting (bright colours jump out and attract attention, darker colours tend to sink to the back = viewers experience the effect of colours)

Use of strokes:
1. Affandi = spontaneous, gestural brushstrokes (squeeze directly onto canvas from tube, applied/smeared on the canvas with his hands) --> WHY DOES HE WANT TO DO THIS?
2. Kandinsky = smooth, much more controlled brushstroke, mixed the paint before applying, clean outline making shapes more defined. --> CONVEY HARMONY AND RHYTHM