The Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize was first launched on 25th August 2002 to commemorate the curator of the museum Fredrick George Waterhouse. The art exhibition allows artists from across Australia and around the globe to capture and embrace the elaborate and complex bio diversity within in our beautiful planet. The atmosphere within the exhibition was quite relaxed and focused solely on the artworks. The lighting was very subtle and the walls were painted in a simple coat of white. All paintings were hung at eye – level so onlookers could really focus their attention on the artwork. Some of the sculptures had an extra sense of emphasis in the way they cast a shadow. There were several interesting and elaborate pieces with in the exhibition some of which were: “Small Parts – Big Picture” by Terry Jackson, “Hover” by Julia Roberts and “Words Alone Will Not Save Me” by Veronica Cay.
Small Parts – Big Picture created by Terry(Theresa) Jackson a local South Australian artist was created by using graphite and coloured pencil. The picture gives onlookers an up close and personal look at an elephant. There are six separate quadrilateral panels on a white background. Each panel has a different feature of an elephant in it. There are two sizes of panel in the picture. The two in the middle are the same size as each other and the four remaining boxes are the other different size. In the boxes we can see an eye, foot, tail, ear, tusk and a layer of skin. The style in which the picture has been drawn is extremely realistic and almost life-like as if it had been photographed. There are only two colours, (yellow and grey) used within the whole piece. Being an elephant the dominant colour within the painting is grey. The main focal poin...
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...nd rigidity of the coral’s structure and the violent darkness of the shadow it casts. The wire ties together the piece as a whole and creates a sense of balance with its rough triangular shape. This artwork has a very strong message associated with it being the importance of protecting our future natural environments and bio diversity particularly the world’s oceans. She believes simply saying something doesn’t mean that a person will stop pollution, cut carbon emissions, stop global warming etc. and that people need to act now because the environment has already begun to suffer. It also implies the human races ignorance towards environmental concerns and informs them to fight the battle that plants and animals couldn’t otherwise win. The success of this piece comes from its simple and manifest content and the maximal drama and urgency associated with this content.
Observation of the first piece in the series showcases the warm Australian desert tones contrasted against a cool blue night sky. This creates a different tone compared to the other pieces, which is enhanced with the inclusion of Truganini’s image in the sky, who is often historically known as ‘The last surviving Tasmanian Aborigine’ (Krischer 2012, 123). Therefore, the addition of her faded image in within the composition constructs an evocative feeling of loss, portraying the destructive impact of colonisation in Indigenous culture. Similarly, the geometric lines and perspective shapes contrast with the other painted styles of the artwork, and with Truganini being at the central vanishing point, it furthers that sense of loss. Thus, through the design principle of contrast, Bennett effectively conveys the historical and cultural impacts that colonisation had on Indigenous people across Australia and the concern over his personal
The “Botanist’s Camp” is a lithograph illustrated by John Wolseley during 1997. As a botanist, John Wolseley takes inspiration from Australia’s unique outback, detailing the minutiae of the flora and fauna in his artworks. His unconventional yet innovative artistry style includes an abstract method whereby natural agents act as printmaking tools or as stimulus. With these principles, John painted many diverse sets of masterpieces and in this case the infamous “Botanist’s Camp”. Within the 74 cm by 93.5 cm canvas, John depicted an assortment of desert wildlife. These include a frog, frill-neck lizards, and various types of flora. Furthermore, as a contribution to the painter’s
Contemporary art is the art that has been and continues to be created during our lifetimes, which can include and represent the Australian culture, politics and music as well as in art forms such as portrait and landscape. Contemporary art is defined as art that is current, offering a fresh perspective and point of view and often employing new techniques and new media. Current art means work by both emerging and also established artists. Rosalie Gascoigne and Imants Tillers are honoured for their contribution showing the Australian landscape in fresh, new and transformational way. Whilst both are similar in their use of text and original interpretation of our landscape they are vastly different in their approach and creating meaning for their
Rosie Gascoigne, is an artist who has aspired an appreciation for undiserable remnants and utilised with them in purpose to produce an assemblage of work that sees into a reflection of the past and present landscape of Australian society. Her growing motivation has taken further interest and development as the founding layers of her work through her deliberate perception, subject to the preservation of the environment and surrounding landscape. Gascoigne’s work offers an insight into deep country outback life of an Australian individual and introduces conceptualities that mirror a focus situated about ‘re-using’, ‘ recycling’ and understanding the insightful meaning present within everyday remnants. Her work is a collective gathering of selected materials to form a composition or an
The distinctively visual provides a means of which a composer can connect with his or her audience in order to create a clear, distinct visual image of other people and their worlds - conveyed through the use of visual or literary techniques in their media. Composers such as Henry Lawson and Dorothea Mackellar are able to effectively depict an image through an exceptional use of language and techniques that help shape our understanding of the Australian people and their world. In particular, Henry Lawson’s short stories ‘The Drover’s Wife’ and ‘The Loaded Dog’ and the Dorothea Mackellar Poem ‘My Country’ are able to effectively depict the unique environment of the Australian bush landscape.
As Coral is struggling with her grief over her deceased son from the Vietnam war, Gow represents Coral’s longing for her son through the foreshadowing of, “That boy! In that blue light the shadows on his face and neck were like bruises. He looked so sick yet so wonderful.” This demonstrates her vision of Tom substituting her son through her soliloquy. Coral’s relationship between her husband, Roy, is very strained. Gow employs this through the patronising tone of Roy towards Coral, as he “thought he [I] told you to wait in the car” as it shows the responder’s that Roy is in control of their relationship. Coral’s strained relationship is further connoted throughout the play, Gow uses a simile to what Roy thinks of Coral, that she is “going to behave like a ghost” further enhances the disconnection of Coral with Roy and the world. Through the allegorical mise en abyme, “The Stranger on the Shore”, Tom has shown Coral the realisation of her faked American accent, “I’m walking, I’m walking” to her normal self, as she is finally “walking” away from her son’s death, which brings Gow’s character Coral to her transformation of a new self and more profound knowledge. In the scene where Coral is holding the shells, it symbolises the vulnerability of Roy. Gow has illustrated this when he “leans towards them and buries his face in the
The nature in which we live is truly beautiful and something to preserve and treasure. When the Europeans first came to North America, they were immediately in love with the views they encountered. They were interested in wanting to know more about the land, the animals that peeked around, and the people who called it home. Artists such as, John White had heard the tales of what Christopher Columbus had described during his time in North America, which led to them wanting to make their own discoveries (Pohl 140). Everyone had their own opinions and views of the world, but artists were able to capture the natural images and the feeling they had through their paintings (Pohl 140).
Earth, an endless source of wonder and beauty, produced the Great Barrier Reef. Hustling and bustling, the Reef thrives like a busy city, teeming with life. Sheltering thousands, corals, maintain the well-being of the Reef; however, the world threatens its nature and delicacy. Populations growing and technological advances increasing, the world becomes more and more disconnected with the natural world, posing an alarming risk for the planet we live on. Although many organizations try to keep the oceans clean, because of human interference and unnatural occurrences, the Great Barrier Reef needs scientific help to adapt corals to new conditions for means of survival, putting pressure on the Australian government to save their ocean environment.
Imagine a lush underwater place. Beautiful structures colorful animals and places that would never have been thought of before. In reality that's not what it really looks like, really the ocean is a desolate place that is barren like a desert. Many marine species have been lost by as much as 49%.(seeker) A big part of that reason is because of coral bleaching which causes as stated above a decline in species that depend on the coral as there home. Coral bleaching is a serious problem that could cause problems for everyone if we don’t fix it.
Thesis: When an artificial reef is made many just see trash going into the sea, however there are positive benefits that come from the making of the reef.
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Second, some corals in New Caledonia were found fluorescing with vivid colors. This is in fact a chemical sunscreen they secrete in order to protect themselves from the heat they are experiencing. In a way, their brilliance can be a tool for people to notice them and their current situation or as what one scientist said in the film, it is an “incredible and beautiful face of death”.
To begin with, this image was created by Rafe Sagarin he give an example of how much nations really care about the environment. Rafe Sagarin is a doctor he’s currently a marine ecologist for university of Arizona. Rafe is currently working on an environmental project called the “Biosphere” the objective of this is replicate the gulf of California in a controlled environment.
Environmental art is a genre of art that was established in the late 1960’s and it was created by things found in nature to make a piece of art. Some of the the environmental art would be so large in size, that it would be considered to be monumental. This kind of art can not be moved without destroying it, and the climate and weather can change it. There are many reasons why an artist would create an environmental work of art, such as : to address environmental issues affecting earth today, to show things that could be powered by nature or be interactive with natural phenomenon (like lighting or earthquakes), or to show how people can co-exist with nature, or maybe use it as a means to help restore ecosystems in an aesthetic way. (greenmuseum) Based on the artworks of Michael Heizer, Walter de Maria, and Robert Smithson, that have created and expanded the wonderful genre of environmental art. The major concepts underlying their art will define the roots of this genre throughout history.
One of my first museums I visited in Washington, D.C. was The National Museum of Natural History. I arrived with no expectations besides the thought of how am I going to spend 3 hours here? While walking through the doors I was astonished to see the enormous elephant standing there as if it was guarding the museum entrance. I continued through the exhibits looking at the amazing skeletons of the extinct creatures that once roamed this earth, possibly in the spot I was standing in. As I went further into the museum, I arrived at the Butterfly Pavilion. It was a room that you can go into to observe real, live, enormous butterflies. The exhibits there made my mind run wild like never before. In my mind the purpose of The National Museum of Natural His...