Today in class we went over the art history class schedule and marking criteria. Here are the two essay topics I have chosen for this year. Time to get researching! 

 Essay 1:

Seeing New Zealand through European Eyes.

(   1)     Land:  Describe  2 examples of Topographical  Landscape painting in early New Zealand:  its purpose and value.
(   2)    Land:  A romantic utopian vision in 19th C. depictions.  Describe 2 paintings of landscapes with figures.  Explain what is meant by ‘Romantic’.
(   3)    European  Impressionism and its effects in New Zealand painting.  2 examples.


Essay 2:
Narrative through Australian landscape painting.  (Give an account o when, where, by whom:  subject/story. Composition/arrangement and effect/expression.)
(1)    Describe two contrasting examples: One, made prior to 1850 which presents a diaristic record of an encounter and one which gives a romanticsed  story about an event, or a work activity in the ‘new’ and ‘raw’ country.
(2)    Describe a painting by each of these artists which depicts a story within a landscape setting:  Russell Drysdale, Sydney Nolan, Arthur Boyd, William Robinson.
(3)    Urban landscape has stories too… Describe one painting by Jeffrey Smart.


What needs to be in this blog (from the marking criteria):

There is a comprehensive range of gathered and annotated work, with illustrations.
Examples cover all topics dealt with this rear

Examples of practice are interrogated; questioned and explained.
Student shows awareness of the contexts in which art examples were made; their relationship tp other art and how they have been received.
There is evidence of the student going beyond the briefs and gathering new material of their own interest.



Retrieved from: https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/42617

Item details

Name
Ford on the Waiau
Production
James Crowe Richmond; artist; 3rd February 1864; Canterbury
Classification
watercolours, works on paper
Materials
watercolour
Material Summary
watercolour
Dimensions
Image: 355mm (width), 252mm (height)
Registration Number
1935-0005-18
Credit line
Gift of EA Atkinson, 1935, on behalf of the artist's daughter, DK Richmond

Overview

Richmond, James Crowe, 1822-1898 : Diary of a journey from Nelson to Hanmer. 1864. Alexander Turnbull Library. Ref: Micro-MS-0774 p. 5 - Richmond personally discusses his experience crossing the Waiau river exactly as pictured in Ford on the Waiau.
http://www.doc.govt.nz/Documents/parks-and-recreation/places-to-visit/nelson-marlborough/acheron-accommodation-house-interp-info.pdf  (accessed 13th October 2016): Contains some interesting references in regard to the Waiau Ford. 
1935-0005-18; Ford on the Waiau; Richmond, J. C.

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