Contextual studies 3/12

last week my CVA class went to 2 art galleries in the city. The 1st of our visit was to the Circular gallery which had a focus pacific island art on display from paintings to jewellery, photography and carvings. The 2nd gallery we went to was the Object Space gallery which had a focus in sculpturing, all types of sculpturing from greek pots to roman scculpture but my favourite was a sculpture by Sandra Black whos from Australia who did this sculpture of a dress in 1988. i really liked it because it has realistic and detail look to it with drape lines on the sculpture cloth. we also went to another gallery in West Auckland called the Loddell House Gallery are having an exibition on called "Labour of Heracles" which focus on Maori and Greek history. All paintings on display were by a New Zealand artist name Marian Maguire who uses Herakles as her main point of focus of blending in with Maori/New Zealand history. She also uses ancient greek history and 2D greek art, blending them in on landscape printing and paintings. My favourite is "Herakles goes to Galipoli" which she printed a Maori and Pakeha WW1 soldiers as a potrait image. The maori soldier is identified by his moko on his chin. Between the two soldiers is Herakles to show power and strength. she is blending in two different times ages and culture which i reckon is clever.

Contextual studies

5th of March which was a friday, The CVA class had a class trip to the Auckland Art Precinct. A area block of the city near Auckland university where 10 art galleries and specialist shops showcase different arts Auckland has to offer. All galleries were uniquely different from each other and displaying New Zealand leading contemporary artists.

My Favorite gallery was the Oxeart gallery which had a portrait painting called "Sacred to the memory" by Mark Goody caught my attention. It was a religious portrait painting of Mary. Goody used dark to light colors to bring out the face of mary with realistic look. He used a brownish earth color as his background color then used black and white to detail the image and bring out Mary's face. The composition of Mary is significant, her pose/position look is power, praised and holy. I like the painting because i always looked at religious paintings when i was younger going to church on sundays.