Analyzing Lin Onus's Life

Vernon Ah Kee was born in Innisfail, Queensland in 1967. The year when he was born, Australians voted to change the Constitution (laws of the country), amending two sections that discriminated against Indigenous people.He felt that he was being discriminated against as he is a native australian. So when he grew up, he creates work dealing with issues facing Australian Indigenous (native) culture in a post-colonial society. Vernon Ah Kee is best known for his monumentally scaled pencil portraits of Aboriginal family members, who gaze defiantly at the viewer. Currently he lives and works in Brisbane,

The fourth lesson will be analyse the content of the picture book “Why I love Australia” by Bronwyn Bancroft. The lesson involves: discovering the visual art element and principals of the illustration (VAES1.3); introduce the artist Bronwyn Bancroft (VAES1.3); explore the traditional Indigenous feature and art technique used in the illustration (VAES1.3); reading the book to class, and guiding student to discover the relation between the words and pictures (ENe-1A).

Aboriginal art in Australia is both beautiful and meaningful. According to Perkins, Hetti and West (2007) Aboriginal art allows for reconciliation of the events of the past two centuries’ that is used as inspiration for their work. Whilst researching the Indigenous cultural heritage of Mount Barker, Western Australia I came across a well know Noongar artist from the region, Charlie Colbung. Colbung was born in Mount Barker in 1970 and still resides in the South West region where he is an Indigenous health worker as well as an Indigenous programs officer for the Great Southern TAFE (Design and Art Australia, n.d.). There are two prominent themes in Aboriginal art consisting of both country such as the land and kinship, the people (Perkins, Hetti

The artist’s job is to be a witness to their time and location in history. They record and reflect on events and themes that have occurred in their personal life and society around them. Gordon Bennett creates artworks exploring Australian colonialism and the impact it has had on Aboriginal History. Bennett’s work bares witness to the disregard for Aboriginal people in history, in his time and today. Bennet grew up unaware of his indigenous heritage.

Onus used a range of diverse mediums, methods and styles in his work; that illustrated qualities of his work being derived from Western culture. He then added layered images evolving from his Aboriginal heritage. An example of this range of techniques is seen in one of his most famous paintings ‘ Barham Forest’. In this artwork he went beyond the traditions of Aboriginal art, yet his work is informed by classical Aboriginal artistic concepts.

This artwork comes from Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarriwas who is one of the most innovative artists. This painting refers to the Anmatyerr Warlugulong site 300 km northwest of Alice springs, which Lungkata, blue tongue lizards, started a great forest fire, the forest fire all ancestors, died in his two sons. He lit a fire to punish his son, who ate sacred kangaroo is breaking the law. Clifford possum Tjapaltjarri won his mother and his cousin Kaapa Mbitjana Tjampitjinpa this topic. This painting depicts the forest fires before you begin, it spread to a wider area to the south and the west. Opossum in tier burnt-out prints and orbit shown in charcoal and ashes of kill. Dot eyeball of burnt-out countries said the large dark grey area and the lighter area. Born in Napperby station, northwest of Alice springs, Tjapaltjarri lived in his forefathers Anmatyerr, until the last few decades of his life. He is the tradition of the elders he community. His paintings of his obligations to culture, and his ancestors totem ancestral mapping. He was one of the most accomplished his time in the western desert region of artists. When

Arthur Streeton was a well-known Australian landscape artist who was a member of the Heidelberg school during the late 1800s. He is best known for capturing the light, heat and air of Australia with a warmth and realism that his colonial predecessors lacked. Streeton and his Heidelberg friends painted “en plein air” (in the open air) and

My Christian artist is James Seward. James Seward was born in Alabama, and raised in Tennessee. He spent summers with his grandparents in the wild back-country of Alabama. When he was six, his grandfather bought him his first set of oil paints, and as a young child he often painted his grandparents by lamp-light, to their great astonishment. "From the time I was five years old, I was continually painting and drawing in that great environment,” the artist reminisces with fondness.

Boyd comes from an artistic family. This had an affect on his artwork as both of his parents, Merric and Doris Boyd, were potters and painters while his brothers were both artists, one a sculptor and the other a painter. This artistic influence helped lead him into becoming an artist as he was exposed to art from a young age. His humanitarian influences and social conscience came from writers such as Dostoyevsky and Kafka. Boyd was exposed to these writers by Jewish immigrant artist Yosl Bergner who was his teacher at Melbourne night classes, which Boyd started attending at age 14 after leaving school. After this time his talent was nurtured by his grandfather who was a landscape artist.

John William Waterhouse was born in Rome, Italy in 1849. He painted figurative and narrative pictures primarily in oil. He was interested and found inspiration in stories and legends from British literature and Classical mythology. His

One interesting fact about my historical figure is that he was born with his twin brother who passed away before the age of two. Another fact is that he loved drawing so much and started at such a young age (the age of three), his dad built him his own studio so he wouldn’t draw on anything in the

Xiaogang was interested in art from a young age. His parents would give him paper and crayons fearing that he would go outside and get himself in trouble. Xiaogang had plenty of time since he did not attend school. When he was seventeen he decided that he wanted to become an artist and described art as being addicting. Xiaogang

Throughout Stephen’s early life the idea of art is almost lost for him. Stephen always has the idea of art in his mind and can be considered his one true love. The ambition of art did not always influence his thinking and ideals until later in his teenage years. The challenges and mental boundaries he experiences can contribute to the artist he wants to become, therefore making him very open minded artist with traditional Irish roots.

reached the age of 14. At 18 he became more serious about his art and

At the age of sixty Tagore started painting. His artworks were showcased in several art exhibitions in Europe. He adopted various styles in his paintings including the craftwork by the Malanggan people of northern New Ireland, Haida carvings from the west coast of Canada and woodcuts by Max Pechstein.