Achievement Objectives - The Learning Context - 6-week plan - Getting started - Vocabulary

 

Teachers should find this curriculum material open enough to be able to incorporate the Landscapes Project into their general classroom work.

Arts Curriculum - Achievement Objectives - Level 2

Developing Practical Knowledge in the Visual Arts (PK) - Students will identify and explore elements and principles of the visual arts, using a variety of techniques, tools, materials, processes, and procedures.

Developing Ideas in the Visual Arts (DI) - Students will develop visual ideas in response to a variety of motivations, using imagination, observation, and invention with materials.

Communicating and Interpreting in the Visual Arts (CI) - Students will describe ways in which objects and images can communicate stories and ideas.

Understanding the Visual Arts in Context (UC) - Students will identify objects and images in everyday life and recognise that they serve a variety of purposes.

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The Learning Context - Students will:

discuss the work of Frances Hodgkins, Grahame Sydney and Marilynn Webb

discuss how the landscapes differ from one another

discuss the individual style that makes each artist's landscapes unique

identify and describe the foreground, middle ground, and background in these artist's work

decide if every landscape needs to be depicted realistically to be an artwork

identify and explore ways of using the elements of line, texture, colour, and shape

decide on an artist

describe and discuss the ideas communicated in the selected artist's work, and use these and relevant subject matter as the basis for developing personal ideas on a theme

use drawing techniques with felt pens and coloured pencils or other media

experiment with shapes and lines, noting that in the natural world, lines are not straight (apart from fenceposts)

explore ways of incorporating their chosen artist's elements into their art work

Create art work incorporating aspects of an Otago landscape in response to their artists' works and research

A class discussion could provide starting points such as:

What do you notice first?

How many different kinds of "scapes" are there?

What kinds of information do artists include in landscapes?

Identify the weather conditions such as the clouds

What do you think the artist is saying?

What time is the artwork set in?

What does this artwork make you think about?

What medium has been used in this artwork?

Vocabulary:

Landscape is an expanse of natural scenery that can be seen from a single viewpoint. A picture representing such scenery.

Background is the area of the picture that is behind most of the objects in the picture.

Foreground is the area of a picture that appears to be the closest to the viewer.

Horizon line is the imaginary line that divides the sky and the ground.

Middleground is the area of the picture that is farther away from the foreground and closer to the background - between the back and fore.