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Exploring assembling: creating sculptures from multiple parts
I can create a sculpture from multiple parts that demonstrates strong composition, explores material play and is stable and durable.
- Year 11
Exploring assembling: creating sculptures from multiple parts
I can create a sculpture from multiple parts that demonstrates strong composition, explores material play and is stable and durable.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Working with multiple parts needs a strong composition, the elements relate spatially, rhythmically and aesthetically.
- Assembling invites experimentation with different materials, objects and reconfigurable forms.
- Artists must plan how parts fit together and support one another, ensuring the sculpture is stable and durable.
Keywords
Composition - how elements relate in space, rhythm and balance within a sculpture
Assemblage - combining mixed or found objects into a new three-dimensional work
Stability - the strength, balance and durability of how sculpture arts connect
Common misconception
Assemblage is just sticking things together randomly.
Assemblage is not random; artists carefully plan how objects interact. Each choice affects rhythm, meaning, balance and stability.
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Equipment
Found / recycled objects, wood, card, wirs, adhesives, bolts, plyers, glue guns, skethcbooks, pencils.
Licence
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