Lesson Six – Art Gallery

This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to investigate how to describe and compare paintings of the school’s landscape that have been based on the artwork style and painting techniques of Van Gogh.
The class can prepare and compose speeches to present to visitors to a class art gallery explaining how and why the paintings have been created to match the style of an artist.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate how to describe and compare paintings of the school’s landscape that have been based on the artwork style and painting techniques of Van Gogh
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe the painting style and techniques used by a significant artist and a template to select and record information that could be presented about a painting in the style of Van Gogh.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to compare paintings of the school’s landscape that have been based on the artwork style of Van Gogh.
This lesson is part of an art and design scheme of work to get the children to investigate and replicate the work and painting style of a famous artist from the past by producing a matching landscape of the school building. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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