COLOUR.
Texture
Integration into K1 Unit of inquiry.
- How colours are organized into families.
- How colours are organized on a colour wheel.
- How artists apply colour in their work.
- How we can make new colours from primary colours.
- There are many different ways to group colours
- Light affects the way we see things.
- Artists use light to create mood.
- Light effects can be created with colour.
- Shapes are made using line.
- Shapes stand out in space.
- Shapes can be geometric or organic.
- We can recognise objects by their shape.
Texture
- Texture is an element of art and can be real or applied.
- Texture can be created using a wide range of media.
- Artists use texture to appeal to our sense of touch.
- Visual images can enhance what we read and understand
- Eric Carle uses collage technique to create his work.
- Art can help communicate a story.
Integration into K1 Unit of inquiry.
- How stories can help us visualise images.
- Stories can stimulate our imagination and contribute to the creative process in producing works of art.
- How do artists use line in their art.
- How artists have created different effects through line.
- Lines start with a dot.
KINDERGARTEN 2
Colour families.
- Colours can be changed.
- Colours can be made lighter and darker.
- Colours can be used to create a mood.
- Colours are used in many ways and we respond to them differently.
- Colours can be interpreted differently.
- Colour helps us recognise what we are looking at.
- Materials and media can be combined in different ways to produce works of art.
- Collage is the process of selecting and combining a range of materials and applying them to a surface.
- Collage often has a textural element.
- Artists use collage to express many different ideas.
- Collage is artwork made from an assemblage of different forms, and therefore creating a new whole.
- Explore how texture is applied to works of art.
- Look at how we can use a range of media to create tactile qualities to works of art.
- Artists use texture to appeal to our sense of touch.
- We can use different words to describe how things feel.
- Understand how Henri Rousseau developed his ideas as an artist.
- Discover how Henri Rousseau found inspiration for his work.
- Learn how colour is applied in the artworks of Henri Rousseau.
- What features can you be seen in a Rouseau landscape.
Portraits and people
- Self portraits are artworks shows the image of an artist.
- Artists use other conventions in their work to communicate something about themselves.
- Artists use different styles to create a self portrait.
- Line is a basic element of art and is created by movement from a point.
- Lines can be made using a range of media.
- Lines and curves are used to create shapes.
- Artists use different types of line in their work.
- Patterns can be made with repeated shapes and colours.
- Patterns can be seen in nature and manufactured objects.
- Pattern is used to decorate everyday objects.
- Patterns can be made using a range of media.
- Patterns can be imitated shapes and images.
- Images and patterns are different.
- Line is an element of art and is used to make shapes and patterns.
- Line and patterns can be seen in nature and in manufactured objects.
- Sculpture is a 3 dimensional art form.
- Artists use a range of materials and media to realise their intentions.
- Sculpture is seen in the round and is therefore different to 2 dimensional artwork.
- Materials can be manipulated and changed to construct a sculpture.
GRADE 1
We can use our senses to explore and understand art.
Optical Illusions in art
Art and culture. Arabic art
Integration with Grade 1 imagination
Puppetry AND SCENERY MAKING
ELEMENTS OF ART SPACE
- Artists use a range of elements in art to stimulate our senses.
- Artworks can have a textural quality which is applied to stimulate our sense of touch.
- Artworks can stimulate our sense of sight.
- Texture can be real or applied as in paintings or sculpture.
- Artists use a range of media to create texture in their work.
- Artists use texture in their work and without it it would be difficult to imagine the material being replicated.
Optical Illusions in art
- Artists can create optical illusions in their artworks.
- Explore how the illusion of movement is created through the op art style.
- Lines are manipulated to create optical illusions.
- Op art is a style of abstract art in which lines, forms, and space are organised in such a way as to provide optical illusions
Art and culture. Arabic art
- Discover Middle eastern architecture and the role of pattern in Islamic art
- Islamic patterns are structured and mathematical.
- Repeated patterns in Arabic art have religious significance.
- How Arabic calligraphy is used as an art form as well as in communication.
- Arabic patterns contain shapes rather than images of people and animals.
- Arabic patterns and calligraphy are used to embellish ordinary everyday objects.
- Arabic lettering is used as pattern and as a communication.
Integration with Grade 1 imagination
- Explore the characteristics of the Surrealistic style.
- Surrealistic art can be produced in a range of media.
- Artists do not always follow the rules for perspective and other conventions.
- Surrealistic artworks can place unconnected images together.
Puppetry AND SCENERY MAKING
- Puppets can be used both in Performing and Visual Arts.
- Puppets express ideas through their performances.
- The visual elements in the design and construction of a puppet give us information about the character.
- Puppetry is a way of communicating popular stories.
ELEMENTS OF ART SPACE
- Space can be created in artwork in a variety of ways.
- Creating space is essential in a composition.
- Space creates the illusion of depth.
GRADE 2
ABORIGINAL ART.
Elements of art color.
- Aboriginal art communicates ideas through patterns and symbols.
- Aboriginal art uses Symbols in order to show the presence of different things or objects that existed around them.
- Aboriginal art is aesthetic as well as being used as a tool for communication
- Symbols have been used throughout history and we use them in contemporary society.
- How artists present themselves in their portraits
- Colour can be used symbolically in portraits.
- How other images in a self portrait can tell us something about the artist.
- How buildings can have aesthetic properties as well as being practical.
- How Hundertwasser's designs were based on his ideas and philosophy which were outlined in his manifesto.
- How design is an element used in architecture.
- Architecture comes in many different forms.
- Artists use coloUr to express feelings and emotions.
- How colour can effect how we feel.
- Facial expressions can also convey how we feel.
- How images can be combined with text to express meaning.
- How images without text can be more open to interpretation.
- Images with text can direct our responses to artist's work..
- How artists use image and text in their work.
Elements of art color.
- How colours can be classified
- How Colours can express mood and emotion.
- Colours can be changed by using tints and shades.
GRADE 3
ELEMENTS OF ART-TEXTURE
Collage.
Still life
ELEMENTS OF ART SPACE
Integration into Grade 3 Unit of Inquiry
Elements of art colour
Pointilism
- Explore how artists use pattern and texture in their work.
- Texture is an element of art and can be real or simulated.
- Real textures can be felt simulated textures created by artists appeal to our sense of touch.
Collage.
- How artists use combinations of materials applied to a surface to create a collage.
- Explore how artists use collage to express their ideas.
- Learn how collage can express many ideas.
- Learn how collage can be combined with other media and elements of art.
Still life
- Still life is a category in art in which inanimate objects are represented.
- Artists can express these objects in a range of styles and media.
- There are many different ways to represent objects.
ELEMENTS OF ART SPACE
- Learn how artists use space in their artworks.
- How artists use space to engage the viewer.
- How artists use space as an element of art.
- How artists use this element to create perspective
- Space is used to create a balanced composition.
Integration into Grade 3 Unit of Inquiry
- Visual arts can be used to convey our ideas.
- How we can tell stories in different ways.
- Puppetry can be used as a creative way of conveying a story.
- Puppetry is a combination of Performing and Visual Arts.
- Puppetry is a process using many elements including scenery.
Elements of art colour
- Art works are organised by elements and principles, colour is one of these elements.
- Colour helps us identify things.
- Colours in art have a purpose.
- Colours can effect our emotions and how we engage with a painting.
Pointilism
- How the Pointillism technique is created with dots.
- Pointillists created the illusion of a colour by combining different coloured dots usually primary and secondary colours.
- Explore why there was an interest in colour at this time
- Inquire into how this pointilist technique is different to other art styles?
GRADE 4
POP ART
- Inquire into how artist's work is influenced by society, time and place.
- How pop art was influenced by iconic images and consumerism.
- Pop art style uses flat primary and secondary colours.
Elements of art pattern and texture
- Lines create different patterns and textures and artists use them in different ways.
- How texture can be a tactile quality in artists work.
- Texture can be real or applied.
LANDSCAPE
- How different artists and art movements have created landscape compositions.
- How artists use various media to create a landscape.
- How a change in perspective can make us feel different towards the artwork.
- Recognise various images of landscape in photographic and painting forms.
- Landscape is a genre of painting
Line and Perspective
- How perspective is used in a range of past and present artworks.
- Perspective is used to give the feeling of depth and space.
- Perspective can be used by artists to view a piece of artwork in a particular way.
- Perspective can be changed and manipulated to make things unreal,
ELEMENTS OF ART SPACE
- How artists use space as an element of art.
- How space is classified as either positive or negative.
- Space includes the background, foreground and middle ground, and refers to the distances or area(s) around, between, and within things.
- Space is an illusion in 2D art and is applied in various ways.
- How artists create space in their work.
IMPRESSIONISM
- How the impressionists used light.
- How impressionist painters used and applied colour.
- How light effects the way we see things.
- Explore how the Impressionists captured a moment in time.
- Light and colour were more important than the details of the everyday objects and scenes.
- Impressionists often painted outdoors and worked quickly to capture the light before it changed. They used rapid brush strokes and often used unmixed colour to save time. They used unusual visual angles and common everyday subjects.
GRADE 5
COLOUR
Sculpture.
Manipulating 2D images to create 3D artworks
- How artists use hot and cold colour to create different emotions.
- Colours are divided into groups.
- Colours can be changed by tints and shades.
- We can respond differently to artworks because they express different ideas.
- artists use colour in a considered way.
- How artists express themselves using a range of media.
- Artists use personal experiences as a catalyst for producing artworks.
- Artists can express a reality such as conflict in an abstract way.
Sculpture.
Manipulating 2D images to create 3D artworks
- How artists develop ideas from 2D images.
- Sculpture is 3D shapes in space.
- We can observe a piece of sculpture from a range of viewpoints.
- Scuptures can be created from a range of materials and media.
- artists sometimes work in both 2D and 3D
- How Giacometti's sculptures differ from other sculptures past and present
- How sculptures as a 3 dimensional art form differ to 2 dimensional works of art.
- How a range of media can be used to create a piece of sculpture.
- How Giacometti's sculpture express human emotion.
- How value as an element of art is used in a range of artworks.
- How tome and form give us the illusion of depth and 3D objects on a 2D surface.
- How value is used to create depth
- How portraits have changed over time.
- How artists produce portraits for different intentions.
- Artists use different conventions to convey information about the person in the portrait