Section 2 - Vce Exam

[aliceec]

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which artists and interpretative frameworks have people been studying for for section 2?

[Strawbaby]

Pissarro and Streeton. We studied more obscure artists for post-1970 but as a class we're like... meh, let's go the easy route for that section. Our frameworks were visual analysis, symbolism and historical context.

[aliceec]

Originally Posted by Strawbaby

Pissarro and Streeton. We studied more obscure artists for post-1970 but as a class we're like... meh, let's go the easy route for that section. Our frameworks were visual analysis, symbolism and historical context.

We did pissarro too but i found him boring. we also did booth, bennett and van gogh, smart and brack
there's too much memorising to do! argh!

but oh well
HAHAH good luck

[Strawbaby]

Oh, I wish we'd studied Peter Booth. I've been fascinated with his paintings since I saw the exhibition at the NGV.

I find Pissarro dull as well - no matter what my teacher says, they're just a lot of pretty chocolate-box landscapes - but nonetheless there's a lot of good historical analysis to be done with his works, not to mention symbolism.

[aliceec]

yeh i agree, i never got to go to booth's but i heard it was friggin good!

what school do you go to?

[Strawbaby]

Yeah, the Booth exhibition was amazing. You don't quite grasp how enormous and striking his works are until you walk in and bam, there they are, the size of the wall. Something's definitely lost when you see them in a book.

Fintona Girls' in Balwyn. You?

[aliceec]

yeh i so wish i could've gone! pissarros wasn't great, finished looking at his stuff in like 2 minutes HAHAHA maybe i just don't appreciate his work enough. LOL but yeh...booth's definitely would've been how you described it! i wanted to go to picassos too but argh missed out on that as well!

which artists did you study for for the commentaries/critics part of the exam??

i go to plc in burwood

[Strawbaby]

Those two are the commentaries ones, the term 3 ones were Louise Hearman and a fluorescent-tube-sculptor/photographer pair called David Hancock and Warren Langley.

I never found time for Picasso Actually, there's a whole lot of stuff I want to see but I'm always just that little bit too late.

[Aurelie.]

I've studied pretty predicatable artists really.
Francisco de Goya & Albert Tucker for pre-1970
&
Peter Booth & Tracey Moffatt for post-1970

In our class, we choose our artists individually (I'm the only one doing Moffatt!). It sounds like a lot of schools, each student studies the same artists?

[ritboy123]

hey
we studied Sidney Nolan and Olive Cotton for Pre 1970's and then Fiona Hall and Ron Mueck for Post 1970's
i actually really enjoyed all of these artists
the only problem was that for Nolan, the work we studied in sem 2 was a quite unusual 1, and we ran out of time to talk about it all together so i still dont fully understand it

our teacher said for question1 of section 2, to talk about semester 1 works, and for question 2, use semester 2 works
it works really well as well
anyways best of luck

[nikkilee9]

ive studied Frida Kahlo and James Gleeson for my pre artist

and Peter Booth and Lucian Frued for my Post artists