1D+Investigations


 * IMAGE ANALYSIS ASSIGNMENT **


 * Complete an image analysis of one of the following images by Australian artist Imants Tillers:**

Diaspora (1992) Izkliede (1994) Paradiso (1994) Farewell to Reason (1996) Monaro (1998) Landing Sites: A, B, C (2000)

Include the image, your collection of the facts (about the subject, the design and the techniques used), and you opinion about the meaning or message of the artwork. As we are looking specifically at how to use multiple images for one are piece, focus on the composition, the placement and size of the different images, text and symbols the artist has used.


 * DUE: Monday 12th August**

SIDNEY NOLAN’S Ned Kelly Series
 * INVESTIGATION ASSIGNMENT **

// *Include your choice of three paintings in your assignment //
 * Write one paragraph on each of the following points:**
 * 1) 1. A summary of the story of the Ned Kelly gang.
 * 2) 2. A summary of Sidney Nolan’s story leading up to the Ned Kelly series.
 * 3) 3. Why did Nolan relate to Ned Kelly?
 * 4) 4. Choose three paintings from the series that summarise the story and explain why.*
 * 5) 5. Explain how Nolan represents Kelly as an outlaw or a hero.


 * DUE: Monday 19th August**

Nolan is arguably Australia’s most significant and internationally acclaimed artist. Kenneth Clark refers to him as one of the major artists of the 20th century. He is well known for dramatic shifts between dark, moody themes and bright, uplifting creations. Always fresh and spontaneous, he never relied upon one style or technique but rather experimented throughout his lifetime with many different methods of application, and also devised some of his own. He commenced formal training twice through the National Gallery of Victoria School of Art, but felt compelled to educate himself instead. An avid traveller, Nolan spent time in Greece and America and continued to visit Australia from his London base every year from the 1970s. Nolan’s work continues to inspire much academic and aesthetic thought, discussion and writing today and his images are reproduced extensively throughout the world. [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Nolan#Biography] []

Ned Kelly was a notorious bushranger; he was arrested several times in his youth for assault, and was later caught as a part of a cattle-rustling operation. Eventually Kelly and his gang attempted bolder crimes: robbing banks and taking hostages. After an acquaintance of the gang was exposed as a police informant and killed, the Kelly gang took around seventy hostages at the Glenrowan Inn, knowing that a train loaded with police was approaching. The gang donned their famous armour in preparation for the attack, but were overwhelmed by the police after a plan to derail their train failed. All of the members of the Kelly gang were killed in the incident except for Ned Kelly himself, and he was tried and hanged on November 11, 1880. [] [] []
 * NED KELLY**

The famous paintings tell the story of Ned Kelly and his gang from the shooting of police constables at Stringybark Creek, to the siege of the Glenrowan hotel and the trial which ended in a hanging sentence for Kelly. Nolan’s Kellys are arguably Australia’s greatest paintings that tell a narrative of British colonial repression versus a quixotic insurrection doomed to failure. [] []
 * Ned Kelly Series**

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 * Images of the Ned Kelly Series at NGA**


 * A Selected Chronology**

**1917** Sidney Nolan born 22 April, in the inner Melbourne suburb of Carlton; the eldest of four children. **1917–31** Family moves to bayside Melbourne suburb of St Kilda; Nolan attends the Brighton Road State School and then Brighton Technical School. **1932** Nolan leaves school, aged 14; enrols at Prahran Technical College, Department of design and crafts, in a course already begun part time by correspondence. **1933** Begins almost six years of work for Fayrefield Hats, Abbotsford, producing advertising and display stands with spray paints and dyes. **1934** Nolan attends night classes sporadically at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School. **1937** Nolan produces plein air landscapes, on painting expedition to Mount Hotham with Sinclair. **1938** Meets John and Sunday Reed; becomes a foundation member of the Contemporary Art Society; marries Elizabeth Patterson, (fellow Gallery School student), moves to Ocean Grove. **1939** Visits epoch-making Herald Exhibition of English and European Contemporary Art including paintings by Picasso, Cezanne, Bonnard, Ernst, Redon, Dali, Chagall, de Chirico, Braque and Dufy. Returns to live in Melbourne. **1940** First solo exhibition, Exhibition of paintings and drawings by Sidney Nolan at his studio, opened by John Reed. Nolan’s daughter born. Nolan meets John Reed’s sister Cynthia Hansen (nee Reed). **1941** Nolan separates from his wife and moves to Heide, the Reed’s farm at Heidelberg. (Nolan romantically involved with Sunday Reed until 1947). **1942** Nolan conscripted into army, stationed in the Wimmera. **1944** Faced with the possibility of frontline duty in New Guinea, Nolan deserts, commenting ‘My conduct as an artist and as a soldier have finally proved incompatible’. Lives mainly at Heide and shares a studio in Parkville. **1945** Nolan’s first Kelly paintings emerge in 1945. After many experiments with abstraction Nolan acknowledges the artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy as a source of inspiration for the black square of Kelly’s armoured helmet. **1946–47** Nolan and Max Harris travel through the ‘Kelly country’ of northeast Victoria. Paints first Kelly series. **1947** Leaves Heide; travels in Queensland for six months. **1948** Obtains a dishonourable discharge from the army; marries John Reed's sister Cynthia Hansen; travels extensively through outback Australia; paints his first aerial landscapes.