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Visual Arts: Art VCE

This is the space for Visual Arts resources, to inspire and guide you in creating.

Unit 2:: Creative Practice - Street Art

 

Unit 2 Art: Creative Practice - Street Art

Welcome to Unit 2 Art! This guide provides resources on:

Group 1 - Meaning and Messages: Baby Guerilla, Banksy, Shepard Fairey 

Group 2 - Style, Media, Methods, Processes and Materials: Howard Arkley, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Keith Haring

Search Engines

Use Carrot2 as a start. It is a cluster search engine. Use the tree map function to get information visually. Click on the image above for access.

 

Google Arts & Culture. Click on the logo above for access.

Google Schoolar is used for searching acadmic articles, particularly peer reviewed ones. Click on the logo above for access.

Wikipedia is a great place to start. The summary boxes on the LHS are so handy. Just remember that you cannot cite it in your bibliography or reference list. Click on the logo above for access.

Art Museum and Gallery Websites

 

National Portrait Gallery, Canberra ...

 

Online Dictionaries, Encyclopedias and Reference Materials

Online Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Reference Materials. Interesting for other topics as well. 

General Resources on Street Art

General Articles on Street Art

The 10 Most Famous Pieces of Street Art in the World, Article, Artsper Magazine, July 2021

Find out about how street art began, while satiating your need to see the world's most famous exponents of it. 

Read the article by clicking on the link above or the image below.

 

 

Street art vs find art: the battle for Trafalgar Square, Article, The Guardian UK, February 2018