Creative guide to_contemporary_art
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How to use this resourceThis resource is designed for the classroom, displayed on an interactive whiteboard or via a laptop and projector.
Guidelines for teachers are contained within the notes section along with links to further education resources and any documents you may wish to print for your students.
What is Contemporary Art?Pre-Visit
THINKWhat do you think contemporary means?
What do you think art is?
Let’s look at some art!
Nicholas Folland The door was open... 2006
Rebecca Baumann Hiromi Tango
Performance ArtPre-Visit
Rebecca BaumannImprovised Smoke Device 2010/2011
Hiromi Tango Hiromi Hotel – Mixed Blood 2011
Click on image to play
Video ArtTHINKShaun Gladwell filmed himself doing tricks on his skateboard in slow motion.
What do you think makes video art different to other types of art?
Pre-Visit
Shaun GladwellStorm Sequence 2000
Installation ArtSome artworks change shape depending on where they are exhibited.This is called an ‘installation’.
LOOKWhat do you think Maria Fernanda Cardoso used to make this installation?
Pre-Visit
See more of her ‘animal’ sculptures here.
Maria Fernanda Cardoso Woven Water: Submarine Landscape I 2003
Painting?
Rosalie GascoigneTiger Tiger 1987
Pre-Visit
Hear curator Hannah Fink speak about the artist here.
Rosalie Gascoigne cut up old road signs and rearranged them to make these artworks that are displayed like paintings.
THINKAre these really paintings?Why/why not?
SculptureHany Armanious made a large sculpture of part of the body.
Can you guess what part it is?
See how this large sculpture arrived at the MCA here.
Pre-Visit
Hany ArmaniousFountain 2012
Click on image and scroll down page to installation video
Conceptual ArtSometimes contemporary artists don’t make the finished artwork themselves.
Kerrie Poliness has left instructions so others can make her wall drawing for exhibitions.
Pre-Visit
Kerrie Poliness Red Matter wall drawing #2 1994
Instruction DrawingPre-Visit
How was it made?
See how Red Matter Wall Drawing #2 was made.
Pre-Visit
Click on image to play
Movable SculptureGemma Smith makes paintings and sculptures that explore colour, space and shape. She calls her sculptures ‘adaptables’.
LOOKWhich parts do you think might move?
Pre-Visit
Gemma Smith(Left) Adaptable (dark peach/red oxide) 2008 (Right) Adaptable (mint/golden green) 2008
Movable SculptureWatch Gemma Smith moving one of her adaptables.(start at 4:30min)
Pre-Visit
Click on image to play, video is contained at the bottom of the webpage
Let’s go and visit the MCA and explore contemporary art.
I want to see for myself!Pre-Visit
How was your visit?Post-Visit
Create a word cloud based on your visit to the MCA here.
Make a word cloud!Post-Visit
Guess what I saw?REFLECT Choose an artwork you saw at the MCA and tell someone about it!
Post-Visit
Stephen Birch Untitled 2005
Brown Council The One Hour Laugh 2009
Robert OwenSunrise #3 2005
Nicholas Folland The door was open... 2006
Maria Kozic Manster (the picture of Dorian Grey) 1986
Your exhibitionRESPONDDid you make anything at the MCA? Photograph your class work and project it onto the whiteboard or create a virtual exhibition.
Post-Visit
Drawing without a pencilRESPONDYou are a contemporary artist! Use some unusual materials to create art.
Make a drawing without using any pens or pencils.
Be creative!
Here are some ideas…
Post-Visit
Click on image to play
Automatic (Kite Drawing)
Sand Pendulum Activity
Drawing Machine by Eske Rex
Pendulum Painting 2
Can I use that wall?You may have noticed many wall drawings at the MCA, by artists like Helen Eager and Robert Owen.
Follow artist Lucas Ihlein’s instructions to make your own wall drawing.
Post-Visit
Or…Use your interactive whiteboard to create a wall drawing.
The artwork may exist for a short-time only (known as a ephemeral).
Post-Visit
Bridget Riley, Composition with circles 4 being painted by an MCA Art Installer in 2004
See you soon!Post-Visit
We look forward to your next visit at the MCA.
www.mca.com.au
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