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Year 10

Planning a final piece

I can plan a final piece that demonstrates my artistic voice and a culmination of my ideas.

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Year 10

Planning a final piece

I can plan a final piece that demonstrates my artistic voice and a culmination of my ideas.

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Key learning points

  1. An artist's final piece or outcome is often a culmination of ideas and work.
  2. When studying art, there are specific requirements about how to plan and demonstrate planning for a final piece.
  3. 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.


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Prior knowledge starter quiz

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6 Questions

Q1.
The artistic voice can effect an artist's choices of...

materials, age, country of birth and subjects.
Correct answer: techniques, materials, subjects and themes.
techniques, height, materials and subjects.

Q2.
Which of the following is true?

An artistic voice stays the same for the whole of the artist’s lifetime.
Correct answer: The artistic voice is not fixed. It can change, as we do.
An artistic voice is copied from another artist.

Q3.
Open-ended working in art means …

making art with someone else’s idea of your outcome.
Correct answer: using materials with no clear idea of your outcome.
using materials with a clear idea of your outcome.

Q4.
Which of these is most likely to be found in an artist’s sketchbook?

Correct answer: sketches from real life
essays about art history
perfect final pieces

Q5.
Which considerations are not a good way to choose an aspect of a theme to develop?

Correct answer: Consider which ideas will be the most popular with others.
Consider which ideas feel the most personal or meaningful to you.
Correct answer: Consider which ideas make little or no sense to you right now.

Q6.
Which of these are ways to record an artist’s work?

Correct answer: visually and through annotations
visiting and looking
conversations and thinking