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Year 9 - Art and design

Gender and sexuality in art

Personal identity

Unit Summary

This unit explores personal identity in art through self-expression, mapping, storytelling, and the interplay between personal and universal themes. Pupils will engage with a variety of art forms while considering how identity is shaped and communicated.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to design a repeat pattern which symbolises inclusion.

Key Notes

  • In Western art history, the roles of men and women are often depicted in traditional ways.
  • There have always been artists who have subverted traditional ideas of gender and sexuality.
  • Artists often challenge stereotypes around gender and sexuality in their work.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • gender: a group of people in society who share particular qualities which that society associates with being male, female or another identity
  • stereotype: a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a person or thing
  • pattern: a repeated decorative design
  • nuanced: noticing or showing the small differences between things, instead of thinking everything is the same

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • That gender and sexuality are the same thing.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

In Western art history, the roles of men and women are often depicted in traditional ways. There have always been artists who have subverted traditional ideas of gender and sexuality.

2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'gender'

a group of people in society who share particular qualities which that society associates with being male, female or another identity.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: That gender and sexuality are the same thing. Correction: Gender is about your personal identity, how you see yourself, while sexuality is about who you are attracted to.

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