Year 11 - Art and design
Exploring and experimenting with materials and techniques
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 make experiments that reflect your understanding of visual language.
Key Notes
- Consider how the choice of materials (e.g. paint, clay, fabric) affects the aesthetic and emotional impact of the work.
- Understanding and analysing an artist's process can illuminate the artist's skill and intent.
- Observe how artists experiment with materials and methods to create unique effects or push creative boundaries.
Vocabulary To Learn
- visual language: the way artists use elements like line, shape, and colour to communicate ideas and emotions
- implicit: describes things in which a meaning is implied or hinted at, rather than being expressed directly
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- I can just make lots of different versions and present them as experiments.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Consider how the choice of materials (e.g. paint, clay, fabric) affects the aesthetic and emotional impact of the work. Understanding and analysing an artist's process can illuminate the artist's skill and intent.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'visual language'
the way artists use elements like line, shape, and colour to communicate ideas and emotions.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: I can just make lots of different versions and present them as experiments. Correction: Experimentation is about thinking through doing. It is only useful when it moves your creative journey forward.
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 artwork Study Guide
- Evaluate use of 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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