Optional: Every picture tells a story
Exploring how masks and poses can communicate emotions, characters and ideas in portraits.
Learning objective
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National curriculum
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Before the lesson
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Lesson plan
This activity revisits learning from the whole unit of Art and design, Year 5, Painting and mixed media: Expressive portraits to help the children recall key knowledge.
Show the link: Artchive – Self-portrait with Bonito (1941) by Frida Kahlo. Click to view the image in full screen.
Pair the children. Ask the pairs to identify one detail that might communicate something about Kahlo's identity.
Ask:
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Adaptive teaching
Assessing progress and understanding
Vocabulary
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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