Trial Exam post-mortem

Q: How does Salvatore Zofrea’ print The Death of my Grandfather represent ideas of loss and suffering?

Salvatore Zofrea, (b.1946, Australian) Death of my Grandfather, from the suite Appassionata, 1994-99 woodblock print on heavy Hitachi paper, 40.0 x 60.0cm blockmark; 84.0 x 63.6cm sheet Kathe Kollwitz, The widow, wood cut, 1922 Edvard Munch, Man’s head in woman’s hair, Woodblock print, 1896

Q. 2: Look at Plates 2 & 3. Compare how each artist has interpreted the everyday world in their artwork.

<<<<< Isidro Blasco (b. 1962, Spain) Courtyard, 2008, 3-D C print photographs, museum board, wood, hardware, 270 x 360 x 120cm.

Charles Condor (English, Australian 1868-1909) Departure of the Orient – Circular Quay, 1888, oil on canvas, 45 x 50cm Hiroshige, Station of Otsu, woodblock print, 1848-9. (Refer to Modernism V PowerPoint if this looks new to you.)

Jeff Koons (American b. 1955), Michael Jackson& Bubbles, 1988, from the Banality series. Porcelain, 106 x 179 x 82cm. (‘Banal’ means boring, unoriginal, ordinary.) Koons in his studio with assistants.

<<<< Michael Zavros, The

New Round Room,

2012, 210 x 167cm. Jeff Koons, Balloon Dog (Magenta).1994 2000, high chrome stainless steel with transparent colour coating. 307 x 363 x 114cm