Half Caste child (1957)
This artwork depicts a young white girl in clinging to an older black man while a black woman is crying in the background. This painting has a historical theme because it shows a child of mixed decent during a time when this was a bad thing. The lack of care she seems to get from the older man helps show this. This painting was painted after the Australian assimilation project when aboriginal people of mixed decent were to be assimilated into white society wether they wanted to or not. In this painting the mixed race child is staying with her aboriginal family rather than a white family showing that the artist did not believe in the assimilation project.
This artwork has been painted with oil on hardwood. The paint has been applied thickly, roughly and unevenly. The paint is not blended completely in some parts. This gives the painting a less realistic impression. The figures have also been painted unrealistically with cartoonish features. These cartoonish styles features contrast with the dark colours and painting style.
This painting has European influences in its style of painting. The style is also expressionistic. It rejects traditional ideas of beauty through the distortion of the characters, exaggeration of their racial features, for example the aboriginal mans …show more content…
The figures in this painting look 2D and flat. They do not look like they have any form because of the way they are painted. They are painted with flat colour with not much contrast to make they appear 3D. This gives the effect of flat 2D figures. This Painting is Also asymmetric. The two main figures are slightly off centre to the left while the hut in the background helps balances the figures because it is slightly off centre to the right. The painting still has more weight to the left because the left side of the painting also has trees, rocks, and other things to help show the setting while the right side of the painting just has
This artwork depicts a young white girl in clinging to an older black man while a black woman is crying in the background. This painting has a historical theme because it shows a child of mixed decent during a time when this was a bad thing. The lack of care she seems to get from the older man helps show this. This painting was painted after the Australian assimilation project when aboriginal people of mixed decent were to be assimilated into white society wether they wanted to or not. In this painting the mixed race child is staying with her aboriginal family rather than a white family showing that the artist did not believe in the assimilation project.
This artwork has been painted with oil on hardwood. The paint has been applied thickly, roughly and unevenly. The paint is not blended completely in some parts. This gives the painting a less realistic impression. The figures have also been painted unrealistically with cartoonish features. These cartoonish styles features contrast with the dark colours and painting style.
This painting has European influences in its style of painting. The style is also expressionistic. It rejects traditional ideas of beauty through the distortion of the characters, exaggeration of their racial features, for example the aboriginal mans …show more content…
The figures in this painting look 2D and flat. They do not look like they have any form because of the way they are painted. They are painted with flat colour with not much contrast to make they appear 3D. This gives the effect of flat 2D figures. This Painting is Also asymmetric. The two main figures are slightly off centre to the left while the hut in the background helps balances the figures because it is slightly off centre to the right. The painting still has more weight to the left because the left side of the painting also has trees, rocks, and other things to help show the setting while the right side of the painting just has