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.