Year 11 - Art and design
Evaluate artwork
Second sustained project: working from a theme changing perspectives
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Unit Summary
This unit introduces collaborative working methods, even when assessed individually. Pupils will work together to respond to a theme, creating first-hand sources, then respond individually. They'll learn to contribute to larger projects while maintaining their own identity.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to present your work and respond to others in a group crit.
Key Notes
- Feedback provides a broader range of interpretations and helps identify issues that might otherwise be missed.
- Critiques offer insight into how an audience might perceive your work, revealing what is communicated effectively.
- The process helps creatives learn what makes work successful and develops their ability to assess and self-assess.
- Group critiques foster connections leading to potential collaborations, mentorships and a supportive community.
- You can learn from the critiques given to others, absorbing insights and vocabulary that can inform your own work.
Vocabulary To Learn
- critique: giving helpful feedback about someone's work, highlighting what is good and suggesting ways to improve
- percieve: to notice, see, or become aware of something through your senses or thoughts
- constructive: giving helpful and positive advice that can help improve someone's work or skills
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- A group crit is only useful while the project is ongoing.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Feedback provides a broader range of interpretations and helps identify issues that might otherwise be missed. Critiques offer insight into how an audience might perceive your work, revealing what is communicated effectively.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'critique'
giving helpful feedback about someone's work, highlighting what is good and suggesting ways to improve.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: A group crit is only useful while the project is ongoing. Correction: A group crit involves diverse perspectives. Even if you don't incorporate it into your current work, it helps you understand different viewpoints to improve your skills and help you anticipate opinions in future projects, making you a better artist.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Analysing the work of artists and designers who work collaboratively Study Guide
- Analysing the work of artists and designers: key elements Study Guide
- Building a collaborative still life Study Guide
- Creating a cohesive narrative: explaining the process Study Guide
- Develop ideas: trials and experiments Study Guide
- Developing ideas collaboratively through manipulating source material Study Guide
- Effective annotation: supporting each other to record the process Study Guide
- Evaluate use of materials and techniques Study Guide
- Exploring and experimenting with materials and techniques Study Guide
- Initial ideas: collaboration and generating ideas Study Guide
- Personal response: first-hand resources Study Guide
- Personal response: plan a response Study Guide
- Personal response: reflect and refine the response Study Guide
- Preparing to make a response under timed conditions Study Guide
- Presenting artwork Study Guide
- Review developed ideas: trials and experiments Study Guide
- Taking the individual path, responding to collaborative work Study Guide
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