Year 9

Key Questions/Concepts

  • How can portraiture help us understanding people's culture, way of living and represent the world around us? 

  • How can we develop observational/experimental recordings using drawing, painting, mixed media and writing?

  • What inspiration and skills can we develop from practically responding to traditional, modern and contemporary ways of creating. 

  • How can we show a creative journey through playing with composition, techniques and media?

  • In what ways do artists use head, hands and heart to show skill and evoke a response? 

 

Timeframe

  • September - March

 

Key Vocabulary

Word/phrase

Definition

Portrait

A painting, drawing, photograph etc. of a person, especially depicting on the face of head and shoulders

Proportion

The relationship of one thing to another in terms of size, measurement and scale

Representation

a type of description or portrayal of someone or something. 

Exaggeration

use to create emphasis or effect.

Expression

the action of showing one's thoughts and feelings.

 

Wider Reading

Key Questions/Concepts

  • How does art make people powerful/institutionss/ideas powerful?

  • What can we learn from exploring interpretations, contexts and connections?

  • How art influences the thoughts and actions of others - for good and bad?

  • How can we create mixed media, illustrated responses to societal issues/current affairs?

  • How do our own experiences influence our 'reading' of an artwork?

 

Timeframe

  • April - July

 

Key Vocabulary

Word/phrase

Definition

Context

The circumstances that form the setting of an idea or image, and in terms of which it can be understood

Mixed-media

Describes an artwork in which more than one medium or material has been used

Issue

An importantant topic or problem for debate or discussion

Empathy

The ability to understand and share the feelings of another

Diverse

Differing from one another

 

Wider Reading