Planning a final piece
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can plan a final piece that demonstrates my artistic voice and a culmination of my ideas.
Key learning points
- An artist's final piece or outcome is often a culmination of ideas and work.
- When studying art, there are specific requirements about how to plan and demonstrate planning for a final piece.
- Artists often identify recurring themes, materials and techniques as they look back at their developing ideas.
Keywords
Demonstrate - to show or illustrate through practical application or examples e.g. through sketchbook work
Culmination - the final stage or result of a process e.g. a final piece
Recurring - occurring repeatedly e.g. themes of interest or preferred techniques and materials
Common misconception
A final piece represents the culmination of an artist's whole life's work, all their ideas and all the materials they have ever used.
A final piece represents the culmination of an artist's themes, materials and techniques, and artistic voice, at a particular moment in time.
Teacher tip
Some pupils may benefit from more or less scaffolding around planning a final piece.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.The artistic voice can effect an artist's choices of...
Q2.Which of the following is true?
Q3.Open-ended working in art means …
Q4.Which of these is most likely to be found in an artist’s sketchbook?
Q5.Which considerations are not a good way to choose an aspect of a theme to develop?
Q6.Which of these are ways to record an artist’s work?
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The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
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