Georges Seurat
This art and design scheme of work for key stage two gets the children to identify, describe and replicate the painting style of a significant French artist by using pointillism to create scenes of different landscape views. You can use the sequence of six lessons to get the class to explore the work of a significant French artist.
Identify, describe and replicate the painting style of a significant French artist by using pointillism to create scenes of different landscape views
Lesson One : Seurat’s Paintings
Investigate and present some of the different themes and ideas that have been presented in paintings by a significant French artist
Lesson Two : Pointillism
Identify and practise a technique used by Seurat to create a range of different colour shades in a painting of a landscape scene
Lesson Three : Bathers at Asnières
Explore and practise some of the techniques that were used by the artist Seurat to create different colour shades in artwork of landscape scenes
Lesson Four : Painting Frames
Practise a selection of different techniques to replicate some of the special colour shades that were used in a painting by a significant French artist
Lesson Five : School Painting
Practise using the painting technique of pointillism to create a picture of the school landscape by combining dots painted with different colour shades
Lesson Six : Art Auction
Review completed paintings of the school landscape that use the pointillism style of painting to emulate artwork by a significant French artist
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