Year 11 - Art and design
Personal response: first-hand resources
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 select appropriate first-hand resources for your personal response.
Key Notes
- A meaningful source that connects to your ideas or experiences adds emotional or conceptual significance to your work
- Resources can become more meaningful when grouped or juxtaposed,
- Critically reflecting on resources, can ensure they communicate your message, your artistic voice, and your idea.
- Relationships between resources can create new ideas, evoke emotion, or highlight contrasts that deepen the message
Vocabulary To Learn
- first-hand resource: a primary source that can be used to develop a response such as a photo or sketch
- juxtapose: to place different things side by side to see how they compare or contrast
- concept: the main idea or theme behind your artwork
- contrast: when you have differences in elements ( i.e. light/dark) to make parts of your art stand out
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- I need new resources for my response.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
A meaningful source that connects to your ideas or experiences adds emotional or conceptual significance to your work. Resources can become more meaningful when grouped or juxtaposed,.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'first-hand resource'
a primary source that can be used to develop a response such as a photo or sketch.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: I need new resources for my response. Correction: You need suitable resources, ideally first-hand. They don't need to be new they can be sourced from bits of your project so far.
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
- Exploring and experimenting with materials and techniques Study Guide
- Initial ideas: collaboration and generating ideas 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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