Big Picture:
Man Made Surfaces
Lesson Focus:
Artist Research
Lesson Objective: To investigate and analyse an artist of your choice
Lesson Outcome:
-Produce a background for your artist research
-Research facts and information about the artist of your choice
-Analyse pictures of the artist of your choice
Lesson Outcome:
-Produce a background for your artist research
-Research facts and information about the artist of your choice
-Analyse pictures of the artist of your choice
The Artists Work
-Add a title and background.
-Explain what medium/ material the artwork is made of.
-Discuss colours the artist has used and how it has been organised.
-Explain what shapes and forms you can find and what they represent. e.g. clocks represent time.
-Suggest what kind of marks or techniques the artist used.
-Explain what the surface is like.
-Discuss the kinds of textures you can see.
-State how big the artwork is.
-Explain when it was made, where it was made and who made it.
-Identify who the artwork was made for (a person, an exhibition, a gallery,the public, a loved one)
-Discuss what you know about the artist.
-Explain what or who influenced the artist.
-Suggest how the artwork relates to other work of that time, linked to social and political events.
-Suggest social, moral and political events the artwork might be linked to.
-Explain how the artwork links to other subjects such as Esher and maths or landscapes and geography.
-Explain what it is about and what is happening.
-State whether it is a portrait landscape or abstract.
-Interpret what the work represents.
-State what the artist calls the piece of work.
-State your opinion on the message the artwork communicates.
-Explain what materials and tools were used to make the piece.
-State how the work makes you feel.
-Discuss the mood or atmosphere the artwork conjures.
-Make small copies of some of the artwork (these add to your artist research and do not necessarily count as a response.
Key words:
Mood, Atmosphere, Tone, Rhythm, Complimentary, Contrast, Subject, Composition