Year 6 - Art and design
Evaluate and refine your arpillera
War and conflict in art: textiles
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Unit Summary
This unit can be linked with pupils' studies in other curriculum areas on World Wars. They will draw from observation and investigate how artists have responded to war and conflict through textiles, before using their personal ideas of conflict to create an appliqué panel.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to evaluate and refine your arpillera.
Key Notes
- Artists might reflect 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
- refine: to improve an artwork by making small adjustments to details, techniques or composition
- 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 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 pupils 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 and refined.
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