Lesson 6: Every picture tells a story
Exploring movement and emotion in art; creating portraits using lines, colour and shapes.
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Learning objective
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National curriculum
Cross-curricular links
Before the lesson
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Lesson plan
Display the artwork of artist Hom Nguyen, a French Vietnamese artist known for his expressive paintings of people, known in art as portraits, using the link: Hom Nguyen.
Remind children that abstract means to use shapes, lines or colours to express a thought or feeling, rather than trying to show how something looks in real life. Realistic means to try to show something as it looks in real life.
Ask the children to discuss in pairs:
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Adaptive teaching
Assessing progress and understanding
Vocabulary definitions
Example work
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Susan is an educator, artist and an active advocate and well-known champion of art craft and design education. Her roles include: Secretary to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Art, Craft, Design Education, Past President, and now Honorary Fellow of the National Society for Education in Art & Design (NSEAD), World Councillor (representing Europe) for the International Society of Education through Art (InSEA), and an Associate of the Big Draw. When Susan isn’t sharing her passion for the arts, she loves photography, making her own art, absorbing culture and travel.
Susan designed our free lesson on Clacton Pigeon Mural by Banksy as well as many others in our Art & Design subject.
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