Visual work of art that you consider captures, or may express state of Visual Art Education in Australia.
Having worked through the survey and given many text based responses you now have an opportunity for an alternative form of response. In the previous questions you have been considering the current state of Visual Art Education in Australia. Please provide the title and artist (or URL to the image) of an identifiable visual work of art that you consider captures, or may express, the general sentiment of your responses.
"Takashi Murakami: The 500 Arhats: "I think the description of this amazing dynamic and diverse exhibition is a wonderful metaphor for the state of art education, its challenges, history and its future - hope, danger and aspiration - the lot. This exhibition will focus on Murakami's recent works, mainly his epic The 500 Arhats (2012), a 3-meterhigh, 100-meter-long painting of the 500 enlightened followers (arhats) of Buddha, created in response to the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Some large sculptural pieces and abstract paintings will also be included. The Japan premiere of Murakami's The 500 Arhats highlights the power of prayer that transcends religious differences in a dynamic vision of the intersection of finite life and the infinite nature and universe. It allows us to understand Murakami's new artistic interests and directions. This exhibition at the Mori Art Museum, through the showing of Murakami's magnum opus and other recent works, will offer an opportunity to examine the role of art and religion in facing social turmoil and human mortality. It will also allow us to approach Murakami's profound exploration of the power of art to illuminate our understanding of the human condition and the realities of the world we live in."
https://www.mori.art.museum/contents/tm500/mobile/en/exhibition.html
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"The Creation of Birds- Remedios Varo" https://maria-cristina.medium.com/great-paintings-the-creation-of-the-birds-by-remedios-varo-f53ce87f24df
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"I like this picture because it looks simple but is very complex. Students can identify to it, because they draw in a beautiful unsophisticated 'childlike' style. Art is creative, and Paul Klee shocked the art society by being creative doing what he wanted, rather than what was expected of him."
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/1329
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"Yasoi Kasuma 'Infinity Mirrored Room - Filled with the brillance of Life' (2012) Tate Modern"
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"Charlotteclemens.com" http://www.charlotteclemens.com/
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"Joan Miro Constellations Series"
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/29082
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"Art education can help us tune into the more than we would ever imagine - let's harness the strnth of rhe visual"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vebDk7xQmCw
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"https://afremov.com/image.php?type=P&id=18582"
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Casper David Friedrich The Wanderer above the Mists. https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-unraveling-mysteries-caspar-david-friedrichs-wanderer
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"Sally Morgan - Greeting from Rottnest" https://sc.artgallery.wa.gov.au/19940344-greetings-rottnest
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Can't think of any at the moment.
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Boy and the Moon, 1950 by Sidney Nolan - it's about challenging the conventions.
https://nga.gov.au/on-demand/sidney-nolan-boy-and-the-moon/
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The conciliation by Benjamin Duterrau https://www.portrait.gov.au/magazines/57/the-art-of-conciliation & The Conciliation by Geoff Parr & Amanda Davies https://artguide.com.au/the-national-picture-the-art-of-tasmanias-black-war/
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https://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/ngurrara
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Banksy twistedsifter.com Image 31 https://twistedsifter.com/2014/07/the-ultimate-banksy-gallery/
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Rosemary lang - Flight research scary , brave, future unknown, but so exciting and real! https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/151.2011/
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Pablo Picasso's Guernica https://blog.artsper.com/en/a-closer-look/artwork-analysis-guernica-by-picasso/
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Fragonard's The Swing, https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-undressing-erotic-symbolism-the-swing-fragonards-decadent-masterpiece alongside, Tracey Emin's small drawings https://www.artsy.net/artwork/tracey-emin-small-and-beautiful and John Olsen's Where the bee sucks, there suck I, https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/6126/ and most of Anselm Kiefer's work. I saw his solo show in London not long ago. Whacked me between the solar plexus and the butt. https://gagosian.com/artists/anselm-kiefer/
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I am sorry - I have no idea what image I would use. I would only rush to find something random. Perhaps Kandinsky - sometimes seemingly random but when viewed as whole has a common purpose. https://www.wassilykandinsky.net/ Actually - for the same reason - Blue Poles. https://bluepoles.nga.gov.au/artwork/blue-poles/
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Loose circle (200713), near bottom of http://www.grahamhay.com.au/galleryindex.html
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Anselm Keifer Twilight of the West 1989 https://ultrawolvesunderthefullmoon.blog/tag/anselm-kiefer/
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The Scream!!! https://www.edvardmunch.org/the-scream.jsp
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The atelierista, the Reggio Emilia teaching approach to teaching the arts. A/r/tography - a methodology that takes into account the symbiotic nature of arts practice,research and pedagogy. Check out Rita Irwin.
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"Human Nest" land art by artist Jean Conroy https://jeanconroy.wordpress.com/my-own-work/
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http://kaldorartprojects.org.au/project-32-jonathan-jones
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beautiful while it lasts https://www.creativityfuse.com/2010/10/andy-goldsworthy-sublime-and-beautiful-environmental-art/
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Sydney Sun, John Olsen (for it's complexity) https://www.olsengallery.com/enlarge.php?work_id=2858&artist_id=1current=0current=0
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Jeffrey Smart 'The Construction Fence' 1978 https://ocula.com/institutions/tarrawarra-museum-of-art/artworks/jeffrey-smart/the-construction-fence/
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https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity?language=en
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Karl de Waal: The Channel series "This work explores the distance between what we see and know, and the tenuous connections that help construct our personal realities and identities." https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/wynne/2015/29650/
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My students love this artwork because it has a clear message and is also entertaining. It is a problem solving style of artwork because it has a very strong environmental message which modern Australians can relate to. Students learn to communicate across language barriers in Art, and this is what this artwork does. http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-product-design/the-treehugger-project-in-brooklyn.html
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Guernica – Picasso https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/cubism-early-abstraction/cubism/a/picasso-guernica
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David Hockney – joiners https://artfilmsblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/06/david-hockney-joiner-photographs/
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Chiharu Shiota's "In Silence" https://www.chiharu-shiota.com/
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This image of a current work of art on display at Heide MOMA, illustrates the importance of interaction, participation and immersion in the arts. Sometimes it can be an illusion, and sometimes it is real. But it is also representative of the changing state of the arts, and acts as a reminder that the art educators need to continue evolving, engage with current practices, and step beyond the tropes of art education (Surrealism, Picasso, Ned Kelly). http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/melbourne-arts/sitelines-review-natasha-johnsmessenger-uses-your-illusion-at-heide-20160807-gqn8ig.html
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Blue Poles Jackson Pollock. https://bluepoles.nga.gov.au/artwork/blue-poles/
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Leon Pericles Storm in a teacup....... Is my first gut reaction. https://leonpericles.com.au/shop/storm-in-a-teacup-limited-edition
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The scream by Munch https://www.edvardmunch.org/the-scream.jsp
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Daniel Boyd- Wwe call them pirates out here 2006 https://www.mca.com.au/artists-works/works/2006.25/
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www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/andy-warhol-ai-wei-wei
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https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/3161/
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Edvard Munch's The Scream https://www.edvardmunch.org/the-scream.jsp
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Howard Arkley, Riteroom https://www.arkleyworks.com/blog/2009/11/23/riteroom-1998/
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Too many to include from Leonardo to street artists, and everything in between!
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There are many.....Ai Weiwei's Sunflower Seeds https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/ai-sunflower-seeds-t13408 or Picasso's Guernica https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/cubism-early-abstraction/cubism/a/picasso-guernica
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Lin Onus https://www.deutscherandhackett.com/auction/lot/deep-water-matong-1995
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Girl at the Window by Dali......looking for a glimmer of hope for the future of a visual Arts education https://artanddesigninspiration.com/classic-salvador-dali-figure-at-the-window/
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http://ingridleeart.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/long1.jpg
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I completely support Sir Ken Robinson's argument for arts education, but feeling so worried for the way the subject of Visual Art is being decimated in schools which is completely at odds with a new Arts curriculum. So for today, I have chosen Gordon Bennett's, Dismay. https://www.mca.com.au/collection/work/1993.281/
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This image of eyes expresses many metaphors about the state of VA in Australia (and the world) to me. http://www.bt-images.net/beautiful-eyes/
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Van Gogh 's Sunflowers. A beautiful artwork, mass produced to the point of boredom, deminishing the greatness of the original. An artwork and period in art that has too much focus in schools when there is so much fabulous contemporary art that could be looked at but many art teachers are not specialists and don't know enough about art to teach it well. https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collection/s0031V1962
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Dali, Persistence of Memory https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79018