Year 5 - Art and design
Assemblage: exterior box design
Me in a box: drawing and sculpture
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Unit Summary
Pupils will devise and make a personalised assemblage sculpture that reflects aspects of their inner and outer personality. They will compose a poetry self-portrait before researching, gathering and collecting items for their assemblage sculpture.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to evaluate and refine your assemblage art box considering surface design.
Key Notes
- Artists might reflect on and evaluate their artwork before it is complete to make improvements to refine their work.
- Artists evaluate their work to help them reflect on their choices and become better artists over time.
- The surface design of an artwork is the process of decorating, altering, or adding texture to the surface.
Vocabulary To Learn
- evaluate: to look at something carefully to understand what is good about it, what could be better, and how it can be improved
- joining techniques: the different ways materials can be connected or fixed together
- surface design: the process of decorating, altering, or adding texture to the surface of a material or object
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Evaluation and reflection only takes place when the artwork is complete.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Artists might reflect on and evaluate their artwork before it is complete to make improvements to refine their work. Artists evaluate their work to help them reflect on their choices and become better artists over time.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'evaluate'
to look at something carefully to understand what is good about it, what could be better, and how it can be improved.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Evaluation and reflection only takes place when the artwork is complete. Correction: Remind children that reflecting upon your artwork can be useful at any stage of the creative process. It helps the artist recognise their successes and decide upon areas that could be improved.
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