Subject Snapshots: A summary of what we expect our students to know and do in a unit.
YEAR 8 : 20th Century European Art
Autumn Term (1 & 2)
Spring Term (1)
ART
Subject Snapshots: A summary of what we expect our students to know and do in a unit.
Unit Summary: Year 8 Art aims to expose students to essential, traditional artists and historical art movements whilst also inspiring them with contemporary artists and designers. Students will also continue to be guided through the key drawing and painting skills required for GCSE Art. | |||
Knowledge (Curriculum content) | This project acts as a ‘mini GCSE’ and essential Art History project, focussing on artists and art styles connected to early 20th century Surrealism through to 1960’s pop culture and Pop Art. This unit will teach students to- - Develop drawing and painting skills - Experiment with different materials, processes and scale including printmaking, collage, charcoal, oil pastels and ceramics - Focus on a variety of relevant artists (Rene Magritte, Klaus Voormann, Peter Blake, Alexis Diaz, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein) with critical analysis of their work - Bring together the learning from the unit to produce semi- independent ‘final Outcome’ | ||
Academic Literacy | Students will continue to use subject specific language related to processes and techniques and when looking at the artwork of the chosen artists, students will be encouraged to use appropriate academic language and key terminology when speaking and/or writing about the work. | ||
What should learning look like at the end of a unit? | SUPPORT | CORE | EXTEND |
- Limited ability to use drawing and painting processes. - Some understanding and success with other processes and skills. - Able to recognise some key aspects within the work of the artists. - Limited recall from previous project. | - Students will show a merging ability in painting and drawings skills as well as other processes. - Students able to give key facts and information about the artwork of the artists focussed on within this topic and will present a collection of paintings and drawings to support this. - Sometimes able to make reference to previous project. | - Able to draw and paint with an emerging, confidence and technical ability across all processes. - Students will be able to talk in detail about the formal elements within the work of the artists studied and put the artists into an historical art context. Students will present a competent body of paintings and drawings with final outcomes based on their own ideas and research. - Able to expand on learning from last project within their work. | |
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Subject Snapshots: A summary of what we expect our students to know and do in a unit.
YEAR 8 : 20th Century European Art
Spring Term (2)
Summer Term (1 & 2)
ART
Subject Snapshots: A summary of what we expect our students to know and do in a unit.
Unit Summary: Year 8 Art aims to expose students to essential, traditional artists and historical art movements whilst also inspiring them with contemporary artists and designers. Students will also continue to be guided through the key drawing and painting skills required for GCSE Art. | |||
Knowledge (Curriculum content) | This project acts as a ‘mini GCSE’ and essential Art History project, focussing on artists and art styles connected to Expressionism and Cubism. This unit will teach students to- - Develop drawing and painting skills - Experiment with different materials, processes and scale including lino printmaking, 3D building and ceramics - Focus on a variety of relevant artists (Pablo Picasso, Franz Marc, Wasilly Kandinsky, Die Brucke German Expressionists, Egon Schiele) with critical analysis of their work - Bring together the learning from the unit to produce semi- independent ‘final Outcome’ | ||
Academic Literacy | Students will continue to use subject specific language related to processes and techniques and when looking at the artwork of the chosen artists, students will be encouraged to use appropriate academic language and key terminology when speaking and/or writing about the work. | ||
What should learning look like at the end of a unit? | SUPPORT | CORE | EXTEND |
- Limited ability to use drawing and painting processes. - Some understanding and success with other processes and skills. - Able to recognise some key aspects within the work of the artists. - Limited recall from previous project. | - Students will show a merging ability in painting and drawings skills as well as other processes. - Students able to give key facts and information about the artwork of the artists focussed on within this topic and will present a collection of paintings and drawings to support this. - Sometimes able to make reference to previous project. | - Able to draw and paint with an emerging, confidence and technical ability across all processes. - Students will be able to talk in detail about the formal elements within the work of the artists studied and put the artists into an historical art context. Students will present a competent body of paintings and drawings with final outcomes based on their own ideas and research. - Able to expand on learning from last project within their work. | |
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