Year 3 - Art and design
Art installation: sculpture you can walk through
Imagined spaces and shared stories
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Unit Summary
Made in collaboration with October Gallery, the unit looks at how materials can be transformed into imagined and shared stories. Pupils create new worlds and think about how art can shape and celebrate real ones. They investigate how public art holds stories of pride, memory, and transformation.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to create a collective sculpture by exploring a variety of materials and approaches.
Key Notes
- Repurposed materials can be shaped to look alike or contrast with each other.
- Artists can use repetition and transformation to change meaning.
- Sometimes artists will create parts of an artwork separately before linking them together.
- Collective artworks can change the way a space feels and functions.
Vocabulary To Learn
- materials: the things we use to make art, like paper, paint, fabric or clay
- repurposed: old or used items that are given a new use
- link: connections between objects or ideas
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Some materials are too simple to be art.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Repurposed materials can be shaped to look alike or contrast with each other. Artists can use repetition and transformation to change meaning.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'materials'
the things we use to make art, like paper, paint, fabric or clay.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Some materials are too simple to be art. Correction: Remind pupls that artists like El Anatsui use simple, reused materials to make powerful work about memory, movement and transformation.
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