Visual Arts

The content included in these notes is all you need to know for your matric year, and partially grade 11. Throughout my High School academic career, I only ever received above 85% for theoretical art. These notes, therefore, offer an excessive amount of knowledge to equip you for your exams, trials, and final assessments of Matric.

This is a summary of the IEB matric syllabus of Visual Arts. Visual Analysis containing elements of art and principles of design. Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Conceptual Art, South African Resistance Art and South African Contemporary Art. Artists as well as their artworks given for each movement as well as a visual analysis.

Summary of all IEB Visual Arts notes. Includes many examples for each section as well as pictures of each artwork mentioned.

filled with different summaries of different movements with artists and artworks which includes facts about the artworks

In depth, comprehensive summaries of all the artworks relevant to the Conceptual Art section of the IEB Visual Art examination. This includes, Robert Smithson - "Spiral Jetty", Christo - "Running Fence", Damian Hirst - "The Physical Impossibility Of Death In The Mind Of Someone Living", Tracey Emin - "My Bed", Marina Abramovic - "Rhythm 0", Banksy - "Dove Of Peace", Nele Azevedo - "Melting Men/Minimum Monument", Walter De Maria - "The Lightning Field" and Joseph Kosuth - "One And Three Chairs"

In depth, comprehensive summaries on all artists and artworks relevant to the South African Resistance Art section of the IEB Visual Arts examination. This includes Jane Alexander - "Butcher Boys", Willie Bester - "Forced Removals", Kevin Brand - "19 Boys Running", Penny Siopis - "Patience On A Monument - A History Painting" and "Dora And The Other Woman", Paul Stopforth - "The Interrogators" and Norman Catherine - "Dog Of War".

All of the visual arts movements including background history of each movement, dates of when the movement occurred and a breakdown of influences, characteristics and a description of a few artists and their artworks. They include Twentieth Century art, Conceptual art, Resistance art and Contemporary art. They should consist of everything that is in the matric IEB Visual Arts exam.

These notes summarise the various art movements. They provide the characteristics, influences, theme/ subject matter, colour and light, The Fleeting Moment, Brushwork, The use of colour theory, Artist examples, Modern Art influences , Art principles, form and shape, application of paint, non-western culture, aims, space, simultaneity and different phases of art movements. They also include important things to note in relation art movements.