This document provides examples and analysis of various artworks by different New Zealand artists to be used as models for students. It includes paintings, lithographs, and drawings by artists such as Antonio Tapies, Barry McGee, Jean Michel Basquiat, Cy Twombly, William Sutton, Rita Angus, and Colin McCahon. Students are instructed to compare and contrast the artworks using headings like subject matter, media, technique, composition, and colors. They are also asked to draw and annotate a landscape by Gregory O'Brien and a landscape by Colin McCahon to describe the formal elements within. The document aims to teach students how to analyze artworks using explicit artist models.

1. Analysing Artist Models

2. Level 2/3
Analysing and Using the
‘Artist Model’

6. Antonio Tapies
Barry McGee Jean Michel Basquiat

8. Cy Twombly, ‘Coronation of
Sesostris.’
Cy Twombly, Crossing

10. Antonio Tapies
Homenatge a joan prats, lithography
Antonio Tapies
Barry McGee

11. Using artist models, compare and annotate, similarities & differences:
Use headings like:
Subject Matter
Content
Media
Technique
Composition
Colours
Light
Style

12. Compare & Contrast
William Sutton, 1950,
‘Nor’wester in the
Cemetry,’ oil on canvas,
152.0 x 183.0 cm

13. Compare & contrast: Create a word bank using key words
Smither, 1969-70, cross for Rita Angus Hotere, 34

14. EXPLICIT ARTIST MODEL
Stanley Palmer

15. Stanley Palmer

16. Implicit
Colin McCahon

17. Implicit
‘Four Waterfalls’
1964, pva on
board, mounted on
board, 63x63 cm
Colin
McCahon

18. Explicit
Charles Heaphy, Off Point Jackson, Cook Strait, Part 1, 1848
Charles Heaphy, Main Entrance to Queen Charlotte Sound, 1848

19. Explicit
Gregory O’Brien, 1867, Otago Harbour & Peninsula,

20. Implicit/Explicit
Michel Smither (1969-70) Cross For Rita Angus, oil on board, 77X76

21. Implicit
McCahon, Red & Black Landscape,
1959, enamel paint & sand on
hardboard, 673mm x 441mm

22. Draw this Gregory O’Brien landscape.
Gregory O’Brien, 1848, Dunedin Harbour from Flagstaff.

23. Draw this McCahon landscape. Annotate using formal art terms to describe elements.
Colin McCahon, 1958, commercial oil-based paint 8 unstretched canvas panels .

24. Compare & Contrast, Note similarities & differences
Use formal language:
Composition
Form
Tone
Colour
Artist intentions

25. Level 3 Analysis page

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