Lesson Three – Bathers at Asnières
This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore and practise some of the techniques that were used by the artist Seurat to create different colour shades in artwork of landscape scenes.
The class can practise using the technique of pointillism to replicate some of the objects that were added to a painting by Georges Seurat.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore and practise some of the techniques that were used by the artist Seurat to create different colour shades in artwork of landscape scenes
Activities in this teaching pack include a display poster to identify and describe colour shades and themes used in artwork by a significant French artist and templates to record some of the colour shades used in artwork by a significant artist and produce different shapes for a painting using pointillism.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore some of the techniques used by Seurat to create different colour shades in artwork.
This lesson is part of an art and design scheme of work to get 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. 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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