Kathryn Barton Conceptual Framework

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Task 1: Conceptual Framework Essay-Del Kathryn Barton The audience plays a significant role in the success of an artist and their artwork. The audience helps the artist and their artwork by giving the artist some advice or saying if they like it or not. The Archibald prize is awarded yearly to the artist that paints the best portrait. The competition is open and it is judged by the Art Gallery. All the finalists are displayed in the gallery. There are two other awards, the peoples choice award and the packing room prize, which the people that hang the artwork get to choose the prize. The Archibald prize was first awarded in 1921. Del Kathryn Barton was born in 1972 in Sydney. Barton graduated university at the University of New South Wales …show more content…

In the Archibald prize they get judge's from the art gallery of new south wales judge and pick the winning artwork. In the people's choice award it is open to the public so the public get to choose the artwork they like the most and whoever gets it most votes wins. The packing room prize is where the people that hang up the artworks get to choose what one they like the most. The Archibald prize is awarded to the best portrait of some man or woman distinguished in art, letters, science or politics painted by any artist that has lived in Australia for one year. You are only allowed to enter one piece of art a year and it must be a painting. The prize is $100 000 for the artist. Del Kathryn Barton had admired Hugo’s work on television and on stage. This inspired her to do a portrait of him. Barton said she had a strange almost hippie style upbringing. She said she liked to swim, ride and draw. She said she lived in a world of imagination and she feels those years deeply informed her creative spirit and essence, which is still in a lot of her work today. She talked with Hugo about a weeping lilli pilli, a tree that Hugo planted on his property that is very close to his heart. In the painting the green lilli pilli leaves become his lungs. When Del Kathryn Barton was painting the picture her and Hugo had a strong bond. The audience helps a lot in world because …show more content…

Without the audience Del Kathryn Barton may not have painted this picture. There is the people that made Hugo famous so than Del KAthryn Barton knew who he was and was inspired to paint him. There is people that support her and without the support she wouldn’t have being able to paint him. There is the Judging panel. They would give her advice and help her with her painting. The people that go in and look at her painting so she can make money to buy paints and get the things she needs like food, a shelter and cloths etc. She can look at the past winners paintings and see what techniques they used and use that to improve her art. She has the media who tell the public about her artwork. And she has the public who come and pay to look at her artworks. When you win the Archibald prize you win one hundred thousand dollars. It also boosts your public profile and more people recognise you for winning the Archibald

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