8B Animating ArtArt and Design Key Stage 3

QCA Curriculum

About the unitIn this unit, pupils explore the use of the moving image to communicate ideas about particular genres or stylesof art. They analyse paintings, films, cartoons, illustrations, digital images, photographs and images fromcontemporary visual culture. They learn how to represent ideas and values using the moving image. Theymake connections between abstract expressionism, expressionism and pop art of the 1960s and contemporarymoving images.This unit is expected to take 10–15 hours.

What the unit coversWhere the unit fits inThis unit builds on unit 6A ‘People in action’ in the key stage 2 scheme of work and unit 7A ‘Self-image’.These units develop knowledge and skills associated with painting, collage, photography and digital imaging.This unit could be linked with citizenship, where pupils are taught to think about moral and social issues,by analysing information and its sources, including ICT-based sources.

FocusArt Craft Design 2-D 3-D Individual work Collaborative workLine Tone Colour Pattern Texture Shape Form SpacePainting Collage Print making Digital media Sculpture Textiles

ExpectationsAt the end of this unitmost pupils will:explore ideas and make moving images in responseto an artist’s work or a particular genre or style of art; researchcontemporary paintings and film in print, digital and video form;organise and use visual and other information in their work;manipulate media to convey their ideas; analyse and comment ontheir own and others’ images and relate this to what was intended;adapt their work to refine their own ideas and intentions

some pupils will not have made so much progress and will:explore ideasand make moving images to record an idea; collect visual and otherinformation to help with their work; investigate and use the qualitiesof the media to communicate their ideas; comment on similarities anddifferences in their own and others’ work and improve their own work

some pupils will have progressed further and will:experiment with andcritically assess ideas and make moving images that communicate apersonal response; select ideas, organise and present information inappropriate ways; exploit the characteristics of the media and makechoices about using this; analyse and comment on the context of theirown and others’ work and explain how their own ideas have influencedtheir practice

First MeetingSurrealism

Surrealism ‘Surrealism was a perception of reality over which

reason was denied the opportunity to exercise confining restrictions.’ -JOHN HERBERT MATTHEWS, The Surrealist Mind

The way to unite the unconscious mind and conscious experience, therefore the fantasy and reality mix together into the world everyday life’s rational.

The aim was to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality."

Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes with photographic precision, created strange creatures from everyday objects and developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious to express itself.

André BretonWriterAndré Breton was a French writer and poet. He is known best as the founder of Surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism".

Born: February 19, 1896, Tinchebray, FranceDied: September 28, 1966, Paris, FrancePeriod: SurrealismAlbums: L'aventure surréaliste 1/2Spouse: Simone Collinet (m. 1921–1931), Jacqueline Lamba (m. ?–1943)

Max Ernst

PainterMax Ernst was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism.

Born: April 2, 1891, Brühl, GermanyDied: April 1, 1976, Paris, FranceSpouse: Dorothea Tanning (m. 1946–1976), MorePeriods: Surrealism, Modern art, DadaMovies: The Golden Age, 8 × 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements, Max Ernst Hanging

Salvador Dalí

PainterSalvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marqués de Dalí de Pubol, known as Salvador Dalí, was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres, Spain.

Born: May 11, 1904, Figueres, SpainDied: January 23, 1989, Figueres, SpainPeriods: Surrealism, Cubism, Modern art, DadaMovies: Un Chien Andalou, Destino, The Golden Age,

Metamorphosis of Narcissus is an oil-on-

canvas painting by the Spanish surrealist

Salvador Dalí. This painting is from Dalí's

Paranoiac-critical period. According to

Greek mythology, Narcissus fell in love

with his own reflection in a pool.

Artist: Salvador DalíSubject: Narcissus

Location: Tate Modern, London

Created: 1937Period: Surrealism

Media: Oil paint

The Son of Man is a 1964 painting by the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte. Magritte

painted it as a self-portrait.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an

interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say,

between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present.

André BretonFree Union My wife with the hair of a wood fireWith the thoughts of heat lightningWith the waist of an hourglassWith the waist of an otter in the teeth of a tigerMy wife with her rosette mouth and a bouquet of stars of the last magnitudeWith the teeth of tracks of white mice on the white earthWith the tongue of rubbed amber and glassMy wife with the tongue of a stabbed hostWith the tongue of a doll that opens and closes its eyesWith the tongue of an unbelievable stoneMy wife with her eyelashes in the strokes of a child's writingWith eyebrows from the edge of a swallow's nest…………………………………………………… 1931  

Federico García Lorca Sleepless City Out in the sky, no one sleeps. No one, no one.No one sleeps.The creatures of the moon sniff and prowl about their cabins.The living iguanas will come and bite the men who do not dream,and the brokenhearted fugitive will meet on street cornersan unbelievable alligator resting beneath the tender protest of the stars. Out in the sky, no one sleeps. No one, no one.No one sleeps.In a graveyard far off there is a corpsewho has moaned for three yearsbecause of an arid landscape in his knee;and that boy they buried this morning cried so muchit was necessary to call out the dogs to keep him quiet.

Sample Poem in Surrealist Era

Student Task: Making Surrealism Painting

Searching the poem/poetry in Surrealism Era, and interpreted it into their surrealism painting.

Or Make their own poem/poetry and interpreted into

their own painting.