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Curriculum Overview KS3
Curriculum Area:
Creative Arts
Subject:
Art
Overview effective from[date
]:
September 2017
Unit/Title
Year 7
Year 8
1
Range and
Content
Van Gogh –
Mark Making/Mixed media.
Develop a range of key
drawing techniques,
experiment with various
media and tools to create an
expressive landscape
painting inspired by Van
Gogh.
Kandinsky paintings
To understand the
characteristics of Kandinsky,
through style, abstract art and
colour theory.
Colour wheel – painting to
music.
Students will collect research,
reproduce art work, develop a
design for a painting, using the
key Characteristics of
Kandinsky.
Key Concepts
Key
Processes
2
Range and
Content
African Art
African clay tiles.
Look at key aspects of
traditional African Art and
culture.
Replicate patterns/wax resist
Design clay tiles based on
African Art
Clay tiles
Kandinsky continued.
Cubism – Analytical and
synthetic.
Picasso
Self portraits
Photos – draw/monoprint and
collage to create Picasso style
self-portrait in mixed media.
Key Concepts
Key
Processes
3
Range and
Content
Observational drawing- shoes.
Mark making, develop into mono
print. Collage, mixed media.
Cubism continued.
Key Concepts
Key
Processes