Year 2 - Art and design
Collage sails: pattern and identity
Art that travels: stories, land and journeys
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Unit Summary
Made in collaboration with October Gallery, this unit explores how art shares stories across time and place as pupils cut, sculpt and collage maps into textured journeys of movement, exchange, identity and belonging.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to make a patterned collage sail that shows symbols and colours.
Key Notes
- Artists like Julien Zingozen use sails to talk about identity and history.
- Art can use abstract symbols to help us share stories without needing to explain them.
- Continuous line drawing can help us see shapes and symbols in new ways.
- Collage can be used to create abstract patterns and show ideas.
Vocabulary To Learn
- pattern: when shapes, colours or lines repeat again and again
- abstract: using shapes, colours and lines in artwork to represent feelings or ideas
- symbol: a picture or shape that stands for something else
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- All abstract symbols need to be explained to others.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Artists like Julien Zingozen use sails to talk about identity and history. Art can use abstract symbols to help us share stories without needing to explain them.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'pattern'
when shapes, colours or lines repeat again and again.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: All abstract symbols need to be explained to others. Correction: Remind pupils that some abstract symbols hold personal or cultural meanings that don't have to be explained. The West African Adinkra symbol Sankofa, literally means "go back and fetch it" and suggests that we carry our past with us.
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