Elements and principles

• Line• Colour• Shape• Texture• Space • Form• Tone

• Unity• Balance• Scale• Repetition• Movement• Contrast

Mt Lawley Rooftop Shaun Tan 2001

Manta Ray James Angus 2005

Burning Ayer Rosemary Lainge 2003

Compare contrast essay: exam brief• Visual analysis• Meaning and purpose• Personal response• Analyses and evaluates• Interprets and comments • on structure, purpose, ideas,

issues, beliefs, emotions, attitudes and/or values

Compare contrast schema– Paragraph 1: Introduction (with Thesis)

subject matter composition, other– Paragraph 2: Comparison a (Topic 1&2)

subject matter– Paragraph 3: Comparison b (Topic

1&2)composition– Paragraph 4: Comparison c (Topic 1&2)– Paragraph 5: Contrast a (Topic 1&2) – Paragraph 6: Contrast b (Topic 1&2)– Paragraph 7: Contrast c (Topic 1&2)– Paragraph 8: Conclusion summary of above

(including all that was mentioned in the first paragraph)

Above: A Closer Winter Tunnel David Hockney 2006

Left: Elioth GrunerSpring Frost 1919

Compare and contrastGruner and Hockney

o Paragraph 1: Introduction (with Thesis) subject matter (rural scene), composition, style-created by application and use of colour, intent and purpose)

o Paragraph 2: Comparison a (Topic 1&2) subject mattero Paragraph 3: Comparison b (Topic 1&2)compositiono Paragraph 4: Comparison c (Topic 1&2)o Paragraph 5: Contrast a (Topic 1&2)style and use of

colouro Paragraph 6: Contrast b (Topic 1&2)intento Paragraph 7: Contrast c (Topic 1&2)purposeo Paragraph 8: Conclusion summary of above (including

all that was mentioned in the first paragraph)

Courtship rejected – a joke Limpi PuntungkaTjapangati 1974

Man absorbed in landscape John Olsen 1966

Above: The bathers Anne Zahalka 1989

Right: Summer at Red Bluff Beach Fred Williams 1969

Above: Holiday sketch at CoogeeTom Roberts 1888

Right: Summer at Red Bluff Beach Fred Williams 1969

Willem Heda Still life with silver pitcher and pastry

The Cook Anne Zahalka 1989

The Milkmaid Jans Vermeer 1658

Killing Time Ricky Swallow 2003-04

Case study essay:exam brief• Visual analysis• Meaning and purpose• Personal response• Social/cultural/historical context/s• Critical and historical

understandings• With reference to more than one

artwork by an artist/artists from case study research

The artwork contains the evidence to answer the question• Visual analysis in the case study

question should reinforce the interpretation.

• Personal response refers to discussing and justifying opinions. Personal response may also include judgement about the ability of the artist/s to communicate his/her intent

STYLE• Subject matter

• Methods and materials (including technique)

• Determines individual style

• Subject matter + methods and materials often determine a collective style eg Impressionism