Year 4 - Art and design
Identifying and applying the influence of other artists
Local landscape : painting
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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 use the work of other artists to inspire your own work.
Key Notes
- Artists can interpret their inspiration using their own, distinctive style.
- Artists might choose to apply another artist's style to practise a technique, or trial out a different idea.
- Exploring different styles is an important part of discovering what you like as an artist.
Vocabulary To Learn
- inspire: something that makes someone want to create in a meaningful way
- distinctive: having qualities that sets something apart from others
- style: the techniques, methods and elements that characterise an artist's work and distinguish it from others
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- When artists look at the same landscape, their artwork will look similar.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Artists can interpret their inspiration using their own, distinctive style. Artists might choose to apply another artist's style to practise a technique, or trial out a different idea.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'inspire'
something that makes someone want to create in a meaningful way.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: When artists look at the same landscape, their artwork will look similar. Correction: Remind children that sometimes artists will make artwork that looks similar, but this is not always the case. Artists can interpret their inspiration using their own, individual style.
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