Art-Update

In Art, my kaupapa is based around Spiritual and Cultural. I will mainly focus on my family and where I come from. This includes the country I'm from up to my beliefs and values that helps build me into the person I am. The reason I am choosing this as my theme is that it is important to me as well as my family and helps me identify with who I am.

I didn't pick spiritual and cultural as my kaupapa just because I liked the thought of doing it and the thought of thinking that it was an easy task. I picked this because it has impacted me in a way to help identify who I am. Also, it is helping me build my relationship between my culture and expanding my knowledge about where I come from and the person I am beginning to evolve into.

This is the outcome of my tree I have drawn for Art

Questions About Connections

In English, we are starting to learn about connections. At the moment we are learning about connections with the film Jojo Rabbit directed by Taika Waititi.

How does viewing this text through a child’s perspective change the way we experience it? Explain using an example from the text.
Not as much experience compared to adults. Their innocence.

How would this text be different if it were told from the perspective of an adult? How would the audience’s experience be different?

It would have a deeper meaning compared to seeing a child's perspective and it would be more serious.

Why did the filmmaker or author decide to tell this story from a child’s perspective?

So the audience wouldn't find it so offensive. Since children have more of a pure soul, seeing something which is darker and deeper would change the way we see it. This is because we went from watching something quite humorous then later on changed into a darker theme.

How are children represented in the text? How are adults represented in the text? Children were represented how we would normally imagine them to be. For example, full of happiness and joy. Excited about every little thing they look forward to or found interesting. However, the adults were more secretive and didn't really show us what they were actually feeling.

Does imagination help the young hero cope? How so? Provide an example.

In the beginning, his imaginary friend Hitler was not only a way to help him cope but to also help him follow a certain path to get him into being a Nazi. However, over time he started seeing different people's perspectives and changed his views of how he saw everything which changed his imaginary friend into something that didn't help him in the end. For example, at the start of the movie, Hitler was giving Jojo some advice about what he should do.

Does this text connect in any other ways to the other texts you have read/viewed? How so? Provide evidence and explain.

Charcoal Drawings

For art I have decided to go with Spiritual and Cultural as my kaupapa. Both images I have done so far link back to parts of my family and where I originate from. The crown represents the crowning of my late grandfather who was crowned Vaeruarangi Ariki (chief) of a village in the Cook Islands called Ureia. This relates to my kaupapa as it is something which was taken seriously and runs through the family. However, only males are allowed to take the title. The second image represents the family tree on both my mum and dads side. This relates back to my kaupapa as it is somewhat links back to the spiritual side of things. So far, I have learned to try new things using both charcoal and coloured charcoal to help enhance the outcome of my work. I also learned that it is quite challenging using charcoal for the first time but later on it got a bit easier. Things I plan on doing next are finishing of the tree and starting on more artworks that are yet to come.

Both artworks I have done so far are below this

Level One Art What Is My Art Kaupapa?

What Is My Art Kaupapa?

For my kaupapa this year, I will be focusing mainly on Spiritual and Cultural.

The reason I am choosing this as my theme is because it is something that is important to me as well as my family and helps me identify with who I am.

The media I will work with is Paint and Design.

From 1.1 I have selected two artist which are: Sofia Minson and Shane Cotton from list one, and Vincent Van Gogh and Banksy from list two.

For my kaupapa the artist in which I am interested in is Franz Marc.

Here are my notes about my thinking for my kaupapa:

           

Metaphor and Simile Examples

Halo-Beyonce

Hit me like a ray of sun
Burning through my darkest night
You’re the only one that I want
Think I’m addicted to your light

Youngblood-5 Seconds of Summer

Say you want me out of your life
And I'm just a dead man walking tonight

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Simile

About Me

About Me

An Ideal World

In my ideal world, there would be no racism whatsoever as well as no one discriminating against each other. My ideal world would be peaceful because there wouldn't be as much violence as there is now. The planet would be clean and fresh because everyone would be putting all the rubbish in bins and they would make sure no one litters.

People would accept how diverse our world is and accept those who aren't of the same culture they are. I would also do whatever I would because I want to and I'd have unicorns.

In my opinion if we all begin to recycle properly and put rubbish in the correct bins then we'll be close to making our world clean but this can't happen unless we all help out. I also think that if people start accepting others from different races then there wouldn't be as much discrimination against each other.