Year 9
Spring Term - Urban Life
Assessment
- Produce a collage of an urban composition made up of art material and magazines. Minimum time required is 3 hours.
- Sculpt a 3D model of a pedestrian from a medium of your choice. Minimum time required is also 3 hours.
ILA - Independent Learning Activities
- Watch video clips of how to add collage to a drawing
- Research the collage work of Romare Bearden. Write a short fact file/biography on his inspiration from the civil rights movement and African-American life in the southern states of America.
- Watch video clips on how to sculpt a model of a person
- Consider the interpretation you expect to achieve collage. What kind of materials would you use? Why are newspapers and magazines popular for making collages? What other paper materials could you use and why?
- Research other artists who have sculpted figures and makes notes of their techniques and processes.
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He used clippings from magazines, which in and of itself was a new medium as glossy magazines were fairly new. He used these glossy scraps to incorporate modernity in his works, trying to show how not only were African-American rights moving forward, but so was his socially conscious art. |
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