Today all 1st year students took time to explore The National Gallery of Australia with Tess, who in addition to being our lecturer also works at the gallery. So given her extensive knowledge of the gallery and her years of artistic study, this was truly a privilege.
The purpose of today's visit was to help us all grasp a deeper understanding of how ART in all of its forms conveys a message or meaning to the viewer. Tess also tried to familiarise us with the various movements and genres of art and how moments in history, advancements in technology and even changes within society has helped create inspiration to evolved art as we know it throughout time.
I often visit galleries and exhibitions of all kinds for inspiration by myself, so i benefited from today. Being part of a group of creative minds was great because i was able to take in what people had to say based on their individual comprehension of what was in front of us - it certainly stirred up my own creative thoughts.
The group i was a part of involved Angus, Subas, Kiki, Kylie, and Genevieve and our painting was one of Claude Monet's series on Waterlillies. Between ourselves we shared some fantastic thoughts and all was given to our classmates verbally in our presentation to which we received a positive response. Well done team :)
Again, I took a lot away from today's class and compliment everyone for the deconstructive explanation of a chosen painting as part of their group assessment. If that just made any sense.
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