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Year 4 - Art and design

Analyse a local landscape through the formal elements

Local landscape : painting

Unit Summary

Pupils will study a local landscape artist and make photographic records of natural or park scenes. This could include natural elements within a built environment. They will learn some basic landscape painting techniques and apply them to their own personal landscape painting.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to identify and analyse shapes, lines, patterns and colour within an image.

Key Notes

  • Artists will sometimes analyse the formal elements of an image to get a better understanding of it.
  • When artists analyse the formal elements, they might experiment with different materials.
  • By identifying the formal elements, an artist can help the viewer experience the image in the same way that they did.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • formal elements: the basic parts that artists use to make pictures
  • shape: shape is a flat figure or form that has boundaries
  • line: a mark made by a moving point, such as a pencil or brush
  • pattern: a design in which lines, shapes, forms or colours are repeated
  • colour: the different hues of colour that we might see in an image

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • In nature, patterns are perfectly repeated.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Artists will sometimes analyse the formal elements of an image to get a better understanding of it. When artists analyse the formal elements, they might experiment with different materials.

2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'formal elements'

the basic parts that artists use to make pictures.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: In nature, patterns are perfectly repeated. Correction: Remind children that in nature, patterns sometimes repeat but the shapes, colours or lines are slightly different.

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