John walsh research blog for year 9 painting
The art work we are looking at is here:
“At a Water Hui With Manet”, 2012
Oil on board, 115 x 120 cm
List what you can see in the painting here: a dark sky, mountain range, blue water, 3 main people but they aren’t very detailed, and it looks like there’s another figure, light sand, dark forestry
T-Shaped Literacy Activity: Adverb Sorting & Identification
Task: LOOK CLOSELY at the painting by John Walsh
Choose the SAPLT level you want to focus on for your writing (you can delete the others, or highlight the one you want)
Identify which adverbs accurately describe how John Walsh applies paint or how his figures/atmospheres appear.
- Discard the adverbs that do not apply to his painting style.
- Use your chosen adverbs to complete your T-Shaped literacy analysis sentence frames.
1. Mixed Adverb Bank | Te Punakupu (Applicable vs. Non-Applicable)
| SAPLT Level | Words that may or may not apply to John Walsh – choose ONE level minimum, copy the words from that level over to the box if they DO apply to his work. | |
| Pīrere | Spark
(Supported Entry) |
• Softly (blended skies)
• Roughly (thick, messy crusts) • Darkly (shadowed hills) • Hardly (harsh, rigid edges) • Brightly (neon, pop-art colour) • Smoothly (glazed washes) • Lightly (brushed mist) • Sharply (razor-clean outlines) |
E.g. Softly |
| Roimata | Ace
(Developing) |
•Chaotically (random splatter)
• Geometrically (hard-edged shapes) – Gently (fading tones) • Deeply (rich, layered shadows) • Broadly (sweeping horizon lines) • Mechanically (stenciled, graphic lines) • Flatly (unshaded poster paint) • Gradually (transitioning washes) |
E.g Gently |
| Hāro | Pro | • Fluidly (wet-on-wet paint application)
• Ethereally (ghostly, glowing figures) Rigidly (stiff, frozen forms) • Subtly (delicate colour changes) • Crudely (unrefined, accidental marks) • Intentionally (placing figures in land) Garishly (clashing, oversaturated) • Aggressively (violent, thick impasto) |
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| Ruku | Legend
(Relational) |
•Opaquely (heavy, non-see-through paint)
Luminously (inner glowing light) • Statistically (diagram-like/technical) • Seamlessly (figures blending into land) • Photographically (hyper-realist detail) • Atmospherically (building mist/fog) • Expressively (fluid, emotive brushwork) • Monotonously (flat, boring single tone) |
Luminous
Opaquely seamlessly Atmospherically Expressively |
| Toroa | Titan
(Extending / Advanced) |
• Hauntingly (poignant ancestral presence)
• Evocatively (suggesting pūrākau/memory) • Industrializedly (factory-neat finishes) • Translucently (see-through glazes) • Abrasively (scratchy, harsh texture) • Commercializedly (mass-produced look) • Masterfully (expert fluid control) • Constructedness (stiff, artificial assembling) |
How many Adverbs can you use from your first task?
Luminous shows light areas to make a glowing effect
Opaquely: heavy layers of paint to make a dark non see through part of work
Seamlessly: curvy non obvious edges or gaps
Atmospherical: creates a airy foggy feeling
Both paintings by john walsh reveal layers underneath. Wiping back wet paint reveals light and colour, while peeling foil from a plate reveals the marks underneath
Luminous: ghostly or see through to make the area lighter
Glaze: thin layer of paint to make in depth colour
Wiping back: removes some paint to add texture
Atmospheric transition: slow change in colour
Pigment: the stuff in paint to give it colour
Ancestral Narrative: story about ancestors
thin glaze creates depth by letting other layers of paint go through to add a texturised or realistic
you can see soft edged gradient blends in the sky, clouds and far landscapes, where colours fade smoothly into each other.