Before you hand in your assignment...

Your assignment is due Friday June 5th.

Make sure you hand it in as a report.

Write an introduction and conclusion - they are worth 5 marks each.

Including images will also give you marks.

Reference your work by citing where you found out your information and sourced your images.

Part Four: Critical Analysis

Select any one of the artworks that exhibited as a finalist in the 2009 Archibald Prize and complete a Critical Analysis. You will be given guiding questions to help you. These will be posted later. I strongly suggest that you select your image as soon as possible and print out a good quality copy.

Click here to see all the finalists' work.

Part Three: Debate and Controversy

Investigate the controversy and debate associated with the Archibald Prize. 

Give an overview of the main controversies and elaborate on one.

William Dobell,  Joshua Smith

Click here for information about Controversy and Debate in the Archibald Prize.

Part Two: Prizes and Awards

Answer the following questions:

What is the Archibald Prize?

Give a brief overview of the history of the Archibald Prize.

What is the Packing Room Prize?

What is the People's Choice Prize?

What is the purpose of the People's Choice Award?

Compare the winning work from the 2009 Archibald Prize with the two minor prizes (People's Choice and Packing Room). Why do you think they won?

Paul Jackson, Flacco's chariot

This link will take you to the wikipedia site for the Archibald Prize.

Part One: Portraits

Answer the following questions:

What is a portrait?

What are the different types of portraits?

Why do we have portraits?

This link will take you to the wikipedia page on portraits.

Vincent Fantauzzo, Brandon

Investigation Task: Archibald Prize

Present your findings as a report.

You are to investigate the Archibald Prize. An investigation requires research, reading and fact finding. This investigation will also require you to give your opinion.

There are four parts as well as an introduction and a conclusion to this investigation. The report should follow the following format:

Introduction

Part One: Portraits (5 marks)

Part Two: Prizes and Awards (10 marks) 

Part Three: Debate and Controversy (10 marks)

Part Four: Critical Analysis (10 marks)

Conclusion (5 marks)

As this is an art task you must include images. (5 marks)

Please reference your findings. (5 marks)

The Archibald Prize

The Archibald Prize is Australia's main portrait competition. The winning painting is the best portrait painting of a man or woman distinguished in Art, Letters, Science or Politics.

Follow this link to the Archibald Prize website.

Guy Maestri, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu

Year 9 GATE

This blog is for Year 9 Visual Art GATE students at Kalamunda Senior High School. 

Hello Year 9 VA GATE 2009.

I will use this blog to post images and information relevant to your current art tasks. Eventually I will use it to publish your completed artworks.

Claire Eden