KS3 Curriculum Booklet 2017 -18

Curriculum Overview KS3 Curriculum Area: Creative Arts Subject: Art Overview effective from[date ]: September 2017

Year 7

Year 8

Unit/Title

Van Gogh – Mark Making/Mixed media. Develop a range of key drawing techniques, experiment with various media and tools to create an expressive landscape painting inspired by Van Gogh. African Art African clay tiles. Look at key aspects of traditional African Art and culture. Replicate patterns/wax resist Design clay tiles based on African Art Clay tiles Observational drawing- shoes. Mark making, develop into mono print. Collage, mixed media.

Kandinsky paintings To understand the

Range and Content

characteristics of Kandinsky, through style, abstract art and colour theory. Colour wheel – painting to music. Students will collect research, reproduce art work, develop a design for a painting, using the key Characteristics of Kandinsky.

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Key Processes

Kandinsky continued. Cubism – Analytical and synthetic. Picasso Self portraits

Range and Content

Key Concepts

2

Photos – draw/monoprint and collage to create Picasso style self-portrait in mixed media.

Key Processes

Cubism continued.

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3

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Key Processes