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 = Lydia's page = Hello, I'm Lydia and this is my page on public art.

Importance of Public art | Public art Impact |  Monuments in Melbourne | Changes In melbourne's Public art |  My Blog |  Bibliography! |

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=__ Why is public art so important to the city of Melbourne? __= ==== So, why is public art so important to our city you ask? Well, like I said before, the public art in Melbourne plays a huge role in attracting tourists from all over the world. Some attractions are; Cow up a tree, the Echo, Architectural Fragment and the Scar (A stolen vision). ====

==== **Cow up a tree-** Cow up a tree? The name says it all. This piece of art made by five tonnes of bronze paint, created by the artist John Kelly, is located in the centre of Docklands. It was installed into Docklands since 2003 but before being brought to Melbourne, it was located in France until they agreed to move it to Melbourne. The ‘cow up a tree’ has attracted worldwide attention from well-known magazines such as Time magazine, the times, OK magazine, Le Frigate and also from BBC. French journalist ‘Katrina Strickland says – “John Kelly’s cows have been selling records for pieces at auction in recent years; they have been making their way all around Europe.” ====

[[image:ginger-edwards-the-echo.jpg width="172" height="278" align="right" caption="The Echo, Edward Ginger"]]
==== **The Echo-** The Echo, classified as a "steel plate sculpture with polyurethane paint" created by artist Edward Ginger in 1996, takes inspiration from Melbourne's rich and variety of cultures, mostly to do with the Asian culture which is a reason that it is sited close to China Town. ====

**Architectural Fragment-** The Architectural Fragment is one of Melbourne’s most familiar landmarks. It was created by artist, Pertrus Sponk in 1993 and is located on Swanston St, right in front of the State Library of Melbourne. This landmark was made as a reminder of Melbourne’s past; a reminder of how the State Library used to be, kind of like a sunken corner of the Library.

==== **The Scar (A stolen vision) -** This is a very important statue to Australia and it’s truly, an honour to have it in Melbourne. It is located on Flinders St; close by to the Immigration museum. This incredible piece of art was created by eight indigenous artists. It was made to symbolise the hard times indigenous people went through, the scars and the ongoing process of healing. The sculpture contains of 30 poles. Each and every one of those poles represents “different aspects of an aboriginal’s life, history or mythology.” ====

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=__What impact does public art have on Melbourne? __= I must admit, public art has a pretty big impact on Melbourne, aside from the fact that it attracts tourists, artists in Melbourne make art to express their feelings, but most of all they have big messages. Artists tend to make all sorts of weird sculptures to express how they are feeling but they always make them out of reason. Art has the power to do a lot of amazing things so we take advantage of that and create incredible pieces of art.







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=__ Monuments in the city of Melbourne __= A monument is a state, building or structure made in honour of someone famous or an event. In Melbourne, we are full of monuments, whether it's a monument of success, a monument of failure, every monument has its story.

(20 March, 1801- 4th December 1875)
 * La Trobe **

You may have heard of La Trobe? He goes by "Charles Joseph La Trobe." Well, this man, Charles, has a monument made right after him. You would come across his monument when entering the Melbourne, State Library. But why does this man have a statue made after him? Why is he so important? Mr Charles La Trobe was the first governor in Victoria. He had moved from London to Melbourne in 1839 on the 30th of September, accompanied by his wife Sophie. He had been ordered by the leader of England to come and run Victoria and build the city of Melbourne.

The sculpture of Charles, Joseph, La Trobe was made by sculpture artist ‘Charles Robb’ in 2007. (21st January, 1801 – 6th May, 1839)
 * John Batman **

This sculpture of John Batman is located in 477 Collins St and was created by artist Michael Mezaros in 1978. I’m sure you have heard of ‘John Batman’ somewhere? And no, it’s not the guy who plays batman in ‘The Dark Night.’ John Batman was the founder of Melbourne which became the capital of Victoria. John Batman found Melbourne in May, 1835. John signed a treaty with the aboriginal people that gave him free acess to aproximately 250,000 heratige of land; he signed the treaty on June, 6th in 1835.

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=__ How has Melbourne's public art changed over the years? __=

It’s safe to say that Melbourne’s public art has changed over the years, but how was it like really like few years ago? Now, we have pieces of art that compose of incredible elements, modern type of shapes and things never seen before but a back in the days, it was much different.

Back in the days, before John Batman and Fawkner, aboriginals owned the land that we now call home, but that’s when art was completely different. They didn’t exactly have pieces of art that we would now categorise as ‘public art’ and ‘street art;’ They had a different style, a unique style that we now call "Indigenous art."

Indigenous art also know as "Australian Aboriginal art," includes the techniques of painting on leaves, wood carving, sculpture, dot painting, rock painting, ceremonial clothing and sand painting.


 * [[image:BC0004A2.jpg width="273" height="295" caption="Dot Painting"]][[image:ancestral_rock_paintings_the_w_photo.jpg width="392" height="291" caption="Rock paintitng"]] ||

Melbourne hosted an event in February this year (2012) called “Melbourne’s Indigenous Art festival.” It was hosted to celebrate Melbourne’s rich culture from an Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander’s perspective. It was celebrated at Federation square and ACAMI and became kind of like how it used to be, they had live music playing, dancing, theatre talks, film screenings, live music and exhibitions.

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