A transition unit of

3. STRUCTURAL FRAME: CULTURAL FRAME:
Colour, line, tone, shape, size,
Time and place, ideas and beliefs, class,
Composition, signs and symbols
race, gender, social values, politics
Describe what you look like. Where do you come from? What is your
family history?
WHAT KIND OF WILD THING ARE
YOU?
My name is…
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POST MODERN FRAME: SUBJECTIVE FRAME:
Uses humour, irony, parody. Recreates Personal feelings and point of view. Ideas
The old into the new to make a Expressed by the artist. Different reactions.
comment. Controversial.
Write something funny, interesting How do you feel about being in high
or silly about yourself. school?

4. Creating your
WILD SELF
Artists like to tell us something about who they are through their art.
In this example, Reg Mombassa has combined himself with a fly to create
an unusual self-portrait.
LET’S THINK ABOUT IT…
What animal features would you have?
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Why would you choose these?
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ACTIVITIES…
✎ Compare your ideas to the person next to you.
✎ Do a sketch of the person opposite you, adding ONE animal feature.
✎ Write a sentence to describe this person underneath your sketch.

5. What kind of WILD THING are you?
ART MAKING – 70% ART THEORY – 30%
• Students will explore ways to represent • Students will use the Frames to study ONE
themselves by creating self-portraits artist example in class
• Students will experiment with different • Students will use the Frames to student
materials including pencil, watercolour ONE artist example independently
pastel and collage to create a 2D visual • Students will write a response that begins
representation of their wild self to acknowledge the way artists have
• Students will begin to understand how to represented their wild self in their self
create meaning through the use of different portait artworks
animal parts to represent their inner feelings
and emotions
ASSESSMENT: ASSESSMENT:
• Visual Arts Process Diary • Visual Arts Process Diary
• 3 self portrait images • Worksheets completed
• Extended response

6. What kind of WILD THING are you?
How do artists represent their WILD SELF?
PHOTOGRAPHY
A photograph of the
DRUG ADDICTION artist looking serenely
On one side of Whitelely there normal
is a beast howling with anguish
as a ghostly hand delivers it a
syringe.
GLOSSARY
Composition:
the plan and arrangement
of the elements in a work.
Homage:
is a reference to someone within
an artistic work. In this sense, REFERENCE TO ANOTHER
homage ARTIST
is the artist’s recognition of this There is a reference to
person’s the infamous debate
influence on them. over William Dobell’s
Archibald-winning
Portrait: Brett Whiteley portrait of Joshua Smith
a painting, photograph or other Art, life and the other thing, 1978 of 1943
artistic representation of a person. oil, photograph and mixed media on board
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Self-portrait: triptych: left panel 90.4 x 77.2cm; centre panel
the representation of 230.0 x 122.0cm; right panel 31.1 x 31.1cm :
yourself in a work of art. a - left panel; 90.4 x 77.2cm
b - centre panel; 230 x 122cm
c - right panel; 31.1 x 31.1cm

7. Let’s discuss this further…
HOW TO WRITE ABOUT ART