Junior Art

Visual Arts 2020

While being a challenge for students in 2020, learning their visual arts curriculum remotely has also provided that much needed creative outlet and opportunity to express themselves in the comforts of their own homes.

Not having access to the well-stocked supply room of the art faculty, students were not deterred, and instead became innovative problem solvers, adapting to the resources available to them at home and making creative choices that ultimately influenced their personal art style.

Remote learning also provided a more relaxed environment for students to further their understanding of the key vocabulary and theoretical underpinnings of the skills and knowledge associated with the visual arts.

Year 7 Art - Zentangle Animals

Anna H

Emma F

Joshua Z

Wesley F

Alyssa H

Siobhan L

Jay D

Charlee I

Josh B

Lily J

Ayla R

Angie N

Hudson M

Jamie S

Matias O

Year 7 Art - Abstract Colour Schemes

Zach B

Madison T

Kimberley C

Abigail S

Nadine P

Mikayla R

Year 8 Art - Cubist Portraits

Students investigated the art movement of Cubism and the artwork of Pablo Picasso, in particular his famous mural painting Guernica (1937, oil on canvas, 3.49 x 7.77 m), analysing the meaning and use of art elements and principles in the composition.

Harrison V

Pablo Picasso has used a range of shapes in his artwork titled Guernica. These shapes are two-dimensional, flat and enclosed.
Picasso has used geometric shapes, like circles and squares and a range of organic and free-form shapes to create a layered oil painting.
There are many characters in this painting including a horse and a bull. The bull’s horns appear as free-form moon shapes and the horses’ neck is like a stretched rectangle with a curved top. The lamp shade on the roof is a free-form oval with small triangular spikes to show the light’s rays. A large geometric triangle stretches from the lamp to the base of the painting to show where the light falls.
The use of geometrical shapes in this artwork illustrate the emotional feeling of the piece. The triangular shapes indicate a strong sense of pain in the painting and the extreme curves (like the woman’s neck) in the bottom left side show the torture that they went through and how their bodies were thrown around in this war scene.

In the artwork titled Guernica by Pablo Picasso space is shown to be a driving force behind the artwork.
Picasso’s use of space is shown through the complexity of the artwork. Even though it has a huge stature it still feels claustrophobic as there is little space that is not taken up by the artwork itself.
As you look at the painting you notice that a lot of the elements are kept in a clustered fashion with some even laying on top of the others. For example there is a woman at the bottom right of the artwork, she blends into the building that she stands in front of and yet her leg seems to be behind it. This is a great example of the cubist style of layering multiple perspectives into a painting allowing for more detail to be shown in a particular area and creating the full and claustrophobic effect. Another example of the use of space is the effect of negative space. By contrasting dark and light areas within the artwork Picasso draws emphasis towards key features in the artwork while allowing smaller hidden details to slip into the darkness.
Through the use of space key areas are highlighted and put on display to show the chaos of war and the atrocities it brings.

Chloe A

Lea Rose B

Caitlin W

Malin S

Pablo Picasso used a variety of different types of LINES in the artwork, ‘Guernica’. The lines used are curved, straight, squiggly and etc.
‘Guernica’ the artwork has many uses of lines within the figures and shapes, they form the shape of screaming heads, or animals in pain.
In the artwork ‘Guernica’ lines are used to shape unique faces and bodies, for example on one of the woman yelling in horror to the sight of her children dead, the lines are used to show her dreadful expression of loss, the lines curve to form the mouth and to show the emotion showed.
The use of lines in this piece, creates the emotions and expressions shown by the figures in the artwork, the facial expressions which show the pain the people of Spain are going through after the attack, and the suffering of all living beings in war. The lines are significant to convey the feelings and emotions to the person looking at it and it creates the symbolism of each figure in the artwork.

Pablo Picasso has used the art principle of contrast in his famous painting ‘Guernica’.
All the pictures and figures in the text are opposite colours to each other. For example, the figures are all painted in white while the background is black.
All the figures shown are painted mostly in white while the background is black. This is contrast because the colours are completely opposite black and white. The figures that represent different things in this piece of artwork are clearly visible and different to its background because of the contrast.
The colour white is usually referred to as pure or innocent, this can be seen in ‘Guernica’. The poor children, women, men and animals suffered tremendously for nothing. This signifies their innocence, and how their lives were taken away from terrible war. The bombings of the Spanish town took away and ruined people’s lives and the contrast between the two colours black and white show the innocence of the ones scarred from the bombings.