2.1+Painting

This achievement standard requires researching and documenting methods and ideas relating to art and artworks, and applying them in the context of a drawing study in painting. It involves the use of drawing materials, tools, techniques & processes appropriate to purpose in that context.
 * 2.1 Research & Drawing Study in Painting ** **Visual Arts 2.1** As Research 90233 Internal 6 credits **DUE DATE:**  ** Research and document methods and ideas in the context of a drawing study in painting **

**Shaped Canvases**

 * Shaped canvases** are [|paintings] that depart from the normal flat, rectangular configuration. Canvases may be shaped by altering their contours, while retaining their flatness. An ancient, traditional example is the //[|tondo]//, a painting on a round canvas: for more information go to @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaped_canvas

A **tondo** (plural "tondi" or "tondos") is a Renaissance term for a circular work of art, either a painting or a sculpture. The word derives from the [|Italian] //rotondo,// "round." The term is usually not used in English for small round paintings, but only those over about two feet in diameter.

In architecture and traditional Christian symbolism, a quatrefoil is a symmetrical shape which forms the overall outline of four partially-overlapping circles of the same diameter. Two common types of quatrefoil are shown in the first two images below (click on the images for larger illustrations, and explanation of the geometry involved): With more overlap || With less overlap || Combined with square ||
 * Quatrefoil**: In [|heraldic] terminology, a quatrefoil is a representation of a flower with four petals, or a leaf with four leaflets (such as a four-leaf clover). It is sometimes shown "slipped", i.e. with an attached stalk. However, it is not defined as a flower, but called a "foil"......for more information go to @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatrefoil
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**Max Gimblett** b. 1935, Auckland, New Zealand Lives and works in New York City, USA
 * Max Gimblett **

Max Gimblett is a prominent New Zealand painter. His philosophies and practices encompass influences as varied as Abstract Expressionism, Modernism, Eastern and Western spiritual beliefs, Jungian psychology and ancient cultures.

Born in New Zealand, Gimblett has been primarily based in New York since 1972, and continues to exhibit regularly in both locations. This mix of cultures and aesthetics is evident in Gimblett’s work, which consists largely of object based paintings. His shaped canvases convey various associations and meanings connected to the oval, rectangle, tondo, keystone, and the quatrefoil, for which Gimblett is most recognised. The use of the quatrefoil refers to a multiplicity of meanings as it dates back to pre-Christian times and is found in both Western and Eastern religions symbolising such objects as a rose, window, cross and lotus......read more on the Gow Langsford website

//Click on the Images above to go to the Artist's website and other related sites.//

Since the 1970s, Albrecht's work has evolved from the poured acrylic 'stained canvases' for which she first gained widespread recognition, into a pair of signature 'shaped-canvas' formats: the hemisphere (half circle) & the oval. These are shapes that Albrecht associates with particular meanings & states of mind. In the shaped-canvas paintings she has been producing since the early 1980s, resonant combinations of colour and geometry create images with a clear poetic impulse, in which references to landscape, family and the cosmos act as emotional points of departure......for more info go to @http://www.gretchenalbrecht.com/
 * Gretchen Albrecht **

Nicky Foreman
The collision of two landscapes, those of New Zealand and France, materialize in Nicky’s paintings. This collision is balanced by her connection to both places infused into her work as romantic memories and symbolic imagery.

Born in Taranaki, Nicky Foreman graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland University. Nicky lives and works in Auckland but still returns to Taranaki and childhood memories provided inspiration in her works. As Damian Skinner writes "What at first appear to be small abstract paintings reveal themselves to be detailed close ups belonging to a refined and highly precise naturalism... [they] connect to contemporary yet deeply historical anxieties about place and identity." The signs, maps, and topographic scapes continue to appear in Nicky's work that reflects travel, not just travel back to Taranaki but also to France where Nicky has lived and worked. The stomping grounds of artists such as Picasso have inspired Nicky, apparent in her vibrant abstract paintings which are often an accumulation of smaller works that can be viewed as small icon-like pieces as well as in its entirety. Nicky's works are carefully balanced so that with each glance more clues can be gathered about the journeys she depicts.....The above info is taken from www.whitespace.co.nz/ You can see more of NIcky Forman's art on her website and at www.thearthouse.co.nz
 * Robert McLeod **

Assignment Handout and Assessment Criteria
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**Achievement Criteria**
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 * **Achievement** || **Achievement with Merit** || **Achievement with Excellence** ||
 * · Research and document methods and ideas relating to art and artworks and apply them in the context of a drawing study. || · Research and document relevant methods and ideas relating to art and artworks and apply them in the context of a drawing study. || · Research, document and analyse relevant methods and ideas relating to art and artworks and apply them in the context of a drawing study. ||
 * · Use drawing and painting materials, tools, techniques and processes appropriate to purpose in that context. || · Select, and use with control, drawing and painting materials, tools, techniques and processes appropriate to purpose in that context. || · Purposefully investigate and use drawing and painting materials, tools, techniques and processes to show understanding of conventions in that context. ||