Principles of Design

Movement

Artwork:

Discovery Movement Activity: This activity allowed us to develop our understanding of movement, given the multiple artworks provided.

Instructions: Using the 6 artworks provided, find areas of movement throughout the art. Draw a grid (2 by 3) and replicate the movement you depicted, using a pencil or marker.

Artworks provided:

1)Abstract: Richard Norland ‘Bend Sinster’, 1964 abstract lines that show movement http://www.sharecom.ca/noland/v4.html

2) Pop Art: Roy Lichenstein ‘Whaam’, 1963, stop motion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Lichtenstein

3) Op Art: Bridget Riley ‘Current’, 1967, lines that direct the eye https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Riley

4)Dada: Duchamp, 1916, “Nude Descending the Staircase’ repeated image to create a sense of motion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nude_Descending_a_Staircase,_No._2

5) Op Art: Calder “Lobster Trap and Fish Tale’, actual movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobster_Trap_and_Fish_Tail

6) Graffiti Graphics: Keith Haring, 1993, jittery all-over movement “mural in Barcelona’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Haring

Artists:

Norval Morrisseau:

Norval Morrisseau is from Canada, born in 1931, and is considered to be a contemporary Indigenous artist. Norval is one of the most important artists in Canada, as his painting represent legends and stories of early eastern woodlands, passed down by oral tradition.

This artwork, “The Gift” is a painting that represents the disease the Europeans brought to their land when they settled in North America. This is a cynical painting as it exploits the devastating and destructive intentions and history of the European settlers. The Europeans brought the smallpox virus to Indigenous people who had no immunity and were left to die. This artwork brings so much emotion and history when uncovering the cultural context, it leaves me with goosebumps at the thought of how disgusting and repulsive our history is.

Kent Monkman:

Kent Monkman created this piece to exploit Canada’s evil faults that were going noticed during the 150-year history celebration. He exploits how Indigenous children were forcefully taken from their parents to assimilate their culture in residential schools. He wanted to display art that drew emotions, by showing how children were physically ripped from parents arm. This piece uses movement and line to display the terrible and detrimental past of Canadian history.