ART Essay Dobell Hester
Bishop Druitt College
Visual Arts Year 8 Term 2 2013
Assessment Task # 2
Subject: Visual Arts – Critical and Historical studies
Weighting: 20%
Syllabus Component:
To critically and historically interpret art informed by their understanding of practice, the conceptual framework and the frames.
Due Date: Week 2 Term 2
9 May 2013
Syllabus Outcomes Assessed:
A student:
4.7
Explores aspects of practice in critical and historical interpretations of art
4.8
Explores the function of and relationships between the artist-artwork-world-audience
4.9
Begins to acknowledge that art can be interpreted from different points of view
4.10 Recognises that art criticism and art history construct meanings
Context:
In artmaking students have explored the structural and subjective frame and how artists investigate and respond to their world through portraiture. Through a study of Dobell’s ‘Joshua Smith’ and Joy
Hester’s ‘Untitled Woman in Black’, students have developed an understanding of why and how artists use visual qualities to communicate ideas and characteristics. The purpose of this task is for students to demonstrate their understanding of each artwork and how the artists have represented their experiences, ideas or perceptions of and about the world.
Description of Task:
Part One: Students use the following questions and answers to collect and record information about the artmaking of Dobell and Hester.
Part Two: Students write an Extended Response in an essay format (min 250, max 300 words).
Using the structural and subjective frames, students compare the similarities and differences in two artworks - Dobell’s ‘Joshua Smith’ and Joy Hester’s ‘Untitled Woman in Black’ (Art Detective, 2nd
Edition, pg.’s 101 & 175).
JOY HESTER
WILLIAM DOBELL
Joy Hester
‘Untitled Woman in
Black’
1948.
Drawing
ink on paper To be completed during class
William Dobell
‘Joshua Smith’
1943.
V’S
Oil paint on board JOY HESTER
Part One: answer the following questions in full sentences
1.
Visual Arts Year 8 Term 2 2013
Assessment Task # 2
Subject: Visual Arts – Critical and Historical studies
Weighting: 20%
Syllabus Component:
To critically and historically interpret art informed by their understanding of practice, the conceptual framework and the frames.
Due Date: Week 2 Term 2
9 May 2013
Syllabus Outcomes Assessed:
A student:
4.7
Explores aspects of practice in critical and historical interpretations of art
4.8
Explores the function of and relationships between the artist-artwork-world-audience
4.9
Begins to acknowledge that art can be interpreted from different points of view
4.10 Recognises that art criticism and art history construct meanings
Context:
In artmaking students have explored the structural and subjective frame and how artists investigate and respond to their world through portraiture. Through a study of Dobell’s ‘Joshua Smith’ and Joy
Hester’s ‘Untitled Woman in Black’, students have developed an understanding of why and how artists use visual qualities to communicate ideas and characteristics. The purpose of this task is for students to demonstrate their understanding of each artwork and how the artists have represented their experiences, ideas or perceptions of and about the world.
Description of Task:
Part One: Students use the following questions and answers to collect and record information about the artmaking of Dobell and Hester.
Part Two: Students write an Extended Response in an essay format (min 250, max 300 words).
Using the structural and subjective frames, students compare the similarities and differences in two artworks - Dobell’s ‘Joshua Smith’ and Joy Hester’s ‘Untitled Woman in Black’ (Art Detective, 2nd
Edition, pg.’s 101 & 175).
JOY HESTER
WILLIAM DOBELL
Joy Hester
‘Untitled Woman in
Black’
1948.
Drawing
ink on paper To be completed during class
William Dobell
‘Joshua Smith’
1943.
V’S
Oil paint on board JOY HESTER
Part One: answer the following questions in full sentences
1.