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ART EDUCATION VICTORIA A VIBRANT, INTERCONNECTED AND HIGH QUALITY LEARNING COMMUNITY THAT SUPPORTS AND ENHANCES CREATIVITY AND PARTICIPATION IN THE VISUAL ARTS FOR ALL VICTORIANS. WHAT STANDS OUT MOST ABOUT THIS UNDERTAKING Bartons


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ART EDUCATION VICTORIA

A VIBRANT, INTERCONNECTED AND HIGH QUALITY LEARNING COMMUNITY THAT SUPPORTS AND ENHANCES CREATIVITY AND PARTICIPATION IN THE VISUAL ARTS FOR ALL VICTORIANS.

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WHAT STANDS OUT MOST ABOUT THIS UNDERTAKING

  • Barton’s enchanted aesthetic
  • Vibrant colours set against the dark backgrounds
  • Use of dot to form line and shape
  • Washey use of watercolours creating a sense of the organic form
  • Dedicated detail similar to that of a scientific observational record
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SOME THEMES WORTH EXPLORING

  • Sacrifice
  • Collaborations
  • Contemporary art making
  • Relationships
  • Bond/Blend with nature (pagan

connetions)

  • Role of literacy and her connection to

family time

  • Lifecycles
  • Perspective – The bird’s naïve

perspective of the boy and the boy’s uneducated perception of the bird.

  • The ‘disposable’ behaviours in society
  • Gender roles
  • Courtship in different cultures
  • Arts practice - deriving inspiration
  • Metaphor - if not a bird, what might the

Nightingale represent?

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SOME POSSIBLE ACTIVITIES

  • Compare and contrast the aesthetics with other artistic animations
  • Breakthrou Film’s Peter and the Wolf
  • Shaun Tan’s The Lost Thing
  • Craft a Prequel, Sequel based on a character.
  • Fabricate a replica from an animation (similar to the dress, bird, flowers).
  • Storyboard or animate a short poem or piece of writing.
  • Make a list poems and pieces of writing that you think would suit Barton’s aesthetic/unique

style.

  • Select a courting ritual from a different culture and create an artwork.
  • Explore the depiction of sacrifice as a means for art making.
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OTHER RESOURCES

  • ACMI’s webpage
  • Student worksheet