Sep 05 2007
The National Picture – Geoff Parr 1985
You need to consider this work on 2 levels
• As an appropriation of Dutterau’s painting the conciliation
• As an example of new art forms existing from changes and development of technology
This text highlights the changes and influence of new technology in the art making process as Parr appropriates Dutterau’s work through. The medium of photography, thereby using a modern medium to question past attitudes and historical representations of the treatment of Tasmania’s aboriginal people. Parr uses a process called DIGITAL ART IMAGING (which blends digital photography with digitalised images from traditional art works.)
By reconstructing Dutterau’s original painting using modern techniques the viewer is aware of the inter texuality and transformation: the ‘new’ resonates with the ‘old’, causing the viewer to reflect upon the changes in our society and how values and attitudes may have changed over the past 150 years.
Make a list of summaries and differences between the two texts.
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