WHAT DO YOU THINK THE ARTWORK IS SAYING????
What do you think the objects depicted represent? Can you decipher these symbols and metaphors???
Why was the image arranged in this way? Is there more to the story than meets the eye????
- How is the way the issue is shown in the image similar to or different from how you see this issue in the world?
- Whose point of view does this artwork represent?
WHAT DO YOU SEE THAT MAKES YOU SAY THAT???
Lin Onus's 'Fruit Bats' 1991
THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN ICON
CLEAN WASHING
CONTRASTED WITH.....
What are these painted 'discs' around the bottom of the clothes line? What could they be?
DIRTY DROPPINGS!
- WHY DO YOU THINK THE ARTIST CHOSE FRUIT BATS? (INSTEAD OF ANOTHER ANIMAL)
- When they hang all together in groups in trees what what are these'groups' called?
FLYING FOXES LARGELY FEED FROM NATIVE TREES-POLLEN AND NECTAR- THEY ARE INVALUABLE AS DISPERSERS AND POLLINATORS. THEY FLY AROUND AND THEIR DROPPINGS GERMINATE AND RE-ESTABLISH NATURE WHEREVER THEY FLY AND CONGREGATE.
Now, think about the discs....why do you think they are painted with a flower design?
There are 100 life-size bats, made from a number of moulds, all painted individually. They are made out of polychromed fibreglass
Lin Onus decorated his bats with a cross hatched
design called 'Raark' (or Dhulang) This form of decoration is used by the Indigenous Peoples (the Dhuwa and the Yirrija) from the central, north-eastern region of Arnhem land. This type of painting is traditionally used in bark paintings and on the body during ceremonies. The design embodies the power of ancestral beings. The artist who, is descended from Yorta Yorta peoples (in Victoria, around the region of Echuca) had to ask permission to use this design from Arnhem land elders.Good (2001, p.3)
- CAN YOU THINK OF ANY REASON WHY THE ARTIST USED THE 'RAARK' DESIGN ON THE FRUIT BATS?
Elements and
Principles of Art and Design
Here is some more information about Indigenous Australians
THIS PREZI ADDRESSES THE FOLLOWING POINTS IN CURRICULAR LINKS ACAVAM 125 (LITERACY, CRITICAL THINKING) ACAVAM 126 (PERSONAL AND SOCIAL CAPABILITY, ETHICAL UNDERSTANDING, LITERACY) ACAVAM 127 (LITERACY, CRITICAL THINKING, ETHICAL UNDERSTANDING) ACAVAM 129 (LITERACY, CRITICAL THINKING, ETHICAL UNDERSTANDING) ACAVAR 130 (LITERACY, CRITICAL THINKING, ETHICAL UNDERSTANDING, INTERCULTURAL UNDERSTANDING) ACAVAR 131 (LITERACY, CRITICAL THINKING, ETHICAL UNDERSTANDING, PERSONAL AND SOCIAL CAPABILITY)
MORE INFORMATION ON LIN ONUS
AND HIS WORK CAN BE FOUND HERE:
http://www.whitehat.com.au/melbourne/People/Onus.asp
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/395.1993.a-c/
http://www.creativespirits.info/
https://www.humanrights.gov.au/publications/face-facts-2012/2012-face-facts-chapter-1
- WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STAIT ISLANDERS??
http://www.racismnoway.com.au/teaching-resources/anti-racism-activities/puzzles/quizzes2/aboriginal-senior/multiscreen.html
WHEN LOOKING AT ART MADE BY PEOPLE FROM OTHER
CULTURES AND OTHER TIMES
IT IS IMPORTANT TO INVESTIGATE THEIR CULTURE AND HISTORY-TO GET TO KNOW THEIR BELIEFS, PRACTICES
AND LITERATURE-AS THIS INFORMS THEIR ART MAKING PRACTICE.
- Who created this work and for what purpose?
- What issues are being shown in the image?
- What do you think the artist wanted us to think about by viewing this work?
Let's come back to
these questions-let's look at the artwork together and try to
find some answers...
- Is the information in the image factual?
*STYLE
Modern? Contemporary? Indigenous? Post Modernism?
- Whose culture or experiences are being shown?
*DECORATION
What is Raark???? Why do you think the artist used it? What messages/meanings can we possibly explore for it's inclusion?
*TECHNIQUE
Installation, painting, sculpture, film, performance, etc
- WHAT DO YOU NOTICE ABOUT THE FRUIT BATS?
- WHAT/WHO DO YOU THINK THE FRUIT BATS COULD REPRESENT?
WHY DO YOU THINK LIN ONUS CHOSE TO USE A HILLS HOIST CLOTHESLINE?
The Flying fox:
Indigenous to Australia
- Some people consider them a 'pest' as they eat fruit from peoples fruit trees
- What is the Flying Foxes natural diet?
- WHERE DO FRUIT BATS USUALLY 'HANG'?
- WHERE ARE THEY HANGING IN THIS ARTWORK?
- THINK ABOUT WHERE THE CLOTHES LINE IS USUALLY FOUND.......