Today in the multicultural society of the world, “Art is considered to be a powerful source to express a meaning or idea to an audience”, according to Jack Hanley, of Jack Hanley Gallery in New York. It is this meaning or idea that communicates to a viewer the individual artist’s intentions, beliefs, physical art making and unique ideas that are carried out. Two artists and their works that reflect this communication and consist of a range of different mediums include Lin Onus’s work’s “Fruit Bats” and “Fish, Barmah Forest”, and Damien Hirst’s works “For the Love of God” and “The Dream”.
Lin Onus was born on the 4th of December 1948 at St. George’s Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria. His full name was William McLontock Onus and consisted of being …show more content…
Onus has demonstrated a sculpture that represents many features and symbols consisting of a group of bats hanging on a Hills Hoist clothesline. The Hills Hoist was developed in a backyard in Glenunga, Adelaide, by Lance Hill in 1945. It is a rotary clothesline that can be raised and lowered by a winding mechanism. This represents the adaptation of bats from the Aboriginal Australian culture moving on and forced to adapt to the future white man generations to come, for example the Hills Hoist because it was a white mans invention. Onus has taken two typical Australian possessions, the Hills Hoist clothesline and fruit bats and placed them together. Onus’s intention would have been to indicate that fruit bats, which are a type of flying mammal that are loud and annoying, have existed before colonization. This is shown by 'overtaking' a modern Australian icon, the Hills Hoist and making a statement about reclaiming, taking back what is rightfully theirs. The sculpture also consists of the arrangement of the aboriginal dotting technique on the bats, the clothesline and also the ground, representing bat poo. The bats in the work are carved out of wood, this symbolizes that the traditional aboriginal art making was mainly focused on gaining resources from the land rather than making life easier for us by making inventions that ruins and slowly destroys the earth over
Lin Onus was born on the 4th of December 1948 at St. George’s Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria. His full name was William McLontock Onus and consisted of being …show more content…
Onus has demonstrated a sculpture that represents many features and symbols consisting of a group of bats hanging on a Hills Hoist clothesline. The Hills Hoist was developed in a backyard in Glenunga, Adelaide, by Lance Hill in 1945. It is a rotary clothesline that can be raised and lowered by a winding mechanism. This represents the adaptation of bats from the Aboriginal Australian culture moving on and forced to adapt to the future white man generations to come, for example the Hills Hoist because it was a white mans invention. Onus has taken two typical Australian possessions, the Hills Hoist clothesline and fruit bats and placed them together. Onus’s intention would have been to indicate that fruit bats, which are a type of flying mammal that are loud and annoying, have existed before colonization. This is shown by 'overtaking' a modern Australian icon, the Hills Hoist and making a statement about reclaiming, taking back what is rightfully theirs. The sculpture also consists of the arrangement of the aboriginal dotting technique on the bats, the clothesline and also the ground, representing bat poo. The bats in the work are carved out of wood, this symbolizes that the traditional aboriginal art making was mainly focused on gaining resources from the land rather than making life easier for us by making inventions that ruins and slowly destroys the earth over