Year 8 - Art and design
Creating and refining an abstract collage
Collage and Assemblage: sustainable materials
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Unit Summary
Pupils will develop their collaging skills and showcase their strengths. They will learn about the different between using the metholody as part of the process or as the technique. They will explore how to place images together and develop compositional skills as well as be playful with ideas.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to make an abstract collage, using texture and pattern to compose and frame a strong focal point.
Key Notes
- By refining our collage we can consolidate the idea or meaning
- Small additions, like text or embellishments can add interesting details and focus attention
- Trimming or creating a frame can pull an artwork together
Vocabulary To Learn
- abstract: artwork that does not depict a recognisable picture, place, person or object in the real world.
- focal point: the area of an artwork that immediately captures your attention. It could be the brightest colour, the sharpest detail, or even the largest subject in the composition.
- frame: surrounding or highlighting part of an image to make it stand out, artists can use lines, shapes, colours, or even leave empty space around a subject to draw our attention.
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Abstract collages need to have perfect symmetry or recognisable shapes.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
By refining our collage we can consolidate the idea or meaning. Small additions, like text or embellishments can add interesting details and focus attention.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'abstract'
artwork that does not depict a recognisable picture, place, person or object in the real world.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Abstract collages need to have perfect symmetry or recognisable shapes. Correction: Abstract collages don't need symmetry or recognisable images. The beauty of abstraction lies in experimenting to create something visually engaging which can express ideas or emotions and finding balance through the arrangement.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Developing and refining collages to represent home. Study Guide
- Exploring collage and composition through portraits Study Guide
- Exploring memory through the world of assemblage Study Guide
- Planning and developing collage inspired by our hobbies and interests Study Guide
- Playing with collaging and relief through landscape Study Guide
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