{"id":377,"date":"2018-08-25T04:53:22","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T04:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/?post_type=article&p=377"},"modified":"2018-08-25T04:53:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T04:53:22","slug":"visual-art-students-visit-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/article\/visual-art-students-visit-melbourne\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Art students visit Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"

At\u00a07:30am\u00a0Friday the 22nd of June members of both\u00a0year\u00a011 and year 12 visual arts classes gathered at Sydney airport to disembark on a weekend in Melbourne. The flight was short and before we knew it we were on our way to check in at our hotel in Melbourne. After a short stop in a nearby food court to grab a quick lunch we were travelling on a tram\u00a0\u00a0down to the NGV.<\/p>\n

The focus of our excursion was to see\u00a0MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art.\u00a0Lots of us were excited to see works from masters like Vincent\u00a0Van Gogh, Paul Cezanne or Pablo Picasso. Salvador Dali, Frida Kahlo, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol were also included in this exhibition filled with over 200 works arranged in 8 sections. \u00a0We also saw works from\u00a0Marcel Duchamp, helping bring artworks we were studying in class to reality. It was amazing to see so\u00a0many\u00a0famous and influential pieces of work in one place, I know a lot\u00a0of us were\u00a0surprised by the size of Dali\u2019s\u00a0Persistence of Memory.\u00a0After a long day of\u00a0looking at art we headed back to the hotel\u00a0and tucked into a feast of Indian food at the restaurant next door.<\/p>\n

On the Saturday we returned to the NGV\u00a0for\u00a0another day\u00a0full of art. We looked at the\u00a0feminist Guerrilla Girls exhibition which provoked\u00a0questions about women in the art world and\u00a0society in general and explored the NGV’s\u00a0permanent collection. We then moved\u00a0across the road to the Ian Potter Centre at Federation Square, which is dedicated to Australian art.\u00a0Here we saw Colony: Frontier wars\u00a0which explored the period of colonisation in Australia as well as\u00a0The Field\u00a0Revisited\u00a0which displayed colour field painting and\u00a0abstract sculpture in Australia. But for us, the most interesting part of this gallery was\u00a0Top Arts 2018,\u00a0which is Victoria\u2019s version of ARTEXPRESS. Looking at works by fellow school students is always interesting and it provided inspiration and encouragement to us, who are either completing or will have to start our major works.<\/p>\n

On the last day of the\u00a0trip we embarked on a street art tour\u00a0around the streets of Melbourne. Our guide was eccentric, to say the\u00a0least, but it allowed us to see street art from an insiders perspective. We learnt\u00a0about the methods street artists use, the meanings behind some\u00a0works and the popular places for\u00a0the rich street art community in Melbourne to create.<\/p>\n

Overall, the trip was filled with lots of art, lots of food and was very\u00a0informative and enjoyable to all of us. We would like to thank Ms Thompson and Ms Starr for organising the excursion and for\u00a0giving\u00a0up their\u00a0weekend\u00a0so we could have this wonderful\u00a0experience.<\/p>\n

Sofia Locke<\/strong>
\nYear 11 Visual Arts<\/strong><\/p>\n

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