Year 7 - Art and design
The presence of nature in art
The importance of nature in art
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Unit Summary
In this unit, pupils will explore art, artefacts, and architecture from around the world. Through hands-on activities, they will experiment with different techniques and materials to create artworks. Pupils will gain a wider context of how art shapes and reflects our global history overtime.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to create art that is inspired by nature using traditional materials and natural elements.
Key Notes
- Throughout history artists often turn to nature as inspiration.
- Artists draw to document ideas, observations, and processes. This can be experimental or from direct observation.
- Artists explore nature through representation, as well as literally creating work with and in nature.
Vocabulary To Learn
- observation: looking, noticing and paying attention to something carefully
- organic: shapes that do not have straight lines and are found in nature
- geometric: shapes that have uniform measurements and do not appear in nature
- record: a way to document ideas, observations, and creative processes for future reference or reflection
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Artists inspired by nature can only look carefully at natural forms and record them.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Throughout history artists often turn to nature as inspiration. Artists draw to document ideas, observations, and processes. This can be experimental or from direct observation.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'observation'
looking, noticing and paying attention to something carefully.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Artists inspired by nature can only look carefully at natural forms and record them. Correction: Artists can make art in and with nature as well as recording from nature.
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