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Hannah Stenstrom
Hokusai pupils
Peter Upward
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Framing question
Investigate the influence of Japanese calligraphy on the work of western artists.
Imagine that you are the artist creating one of these works. Choose one work and outline the processes and the materials needed to make it. Discuss how the act of creation evident in the work of these artists? Suggest in what ways the scale of an artwork can affect the audience’s response? Comment on the way Stenstrom, Hokusai pupils and Upward use both positive and negative space in their work.
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Hannah Stenstrom
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Untitled: After Hokusai
Painting
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Ku-ring-gai Creative Arts High School
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The original idea of space is an infinite space – through my art making I aimed to explore the unconscious, interior space of ‘being’. Like Abstract Expressionist Franz Kline, I have favoured a spontaneous, abstracted representation of a complex thought – where the physical act of creation takes precedence to the final product. I have used a variety of media and techniques with an emphasis on automatism and the element of chance in my approach. The starting point for my body of work was in fact a rapid, calligraphic ink drawing – an idea I experimented with an developed to eventually transfer to large format canvases.
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collection
art gallery of
new south wales
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Hokusai pupils (Edo (Tokugawa) period 1615-1868, Japan)
The Six Immortal Poets 1830
Sculpture, laminated wood
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Purchased 1983
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collection
art gallery of
new south wales
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Peter Upward (Australia, b.1932, d.1983)
New reality 1961
Painting, synthetic polymer paint on hardboard
© Courtesy Julie Harris
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Visual Arts Board Australia Council Contemporary Art Purchase Grant 1975
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