Starter quiz
- True or false? Collage is the layering of paper to create an artwork.
- True
- False ✓
- A visual response is ...
- Looking at an artwork and expressing what you feel
- Talking about an artwork to express what you think or feel
- Making images to express what you think or feel ✓
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- Which of the following artists worked in a Surrealist style?
- Claude Monet
- Leonora Carrington ✓
- Pablo Picasso
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- True or false? Digital media can only be created on a digital device.
- True ✓
- False
- Which of these features are found in a Surrealist artwork?
- Dark and atmospheric colours in the artwork
- Objects which are unexpected sizes in the artwork ✓
- Strange or unusual things happening in the artwork ✓
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- __________ and __________ inspired the Surrealists.
- Dreams and the conscious
- Dreams and everyday objects
- Dreams and the subconscious ✓
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Exit quiz
- When artists make a __________, they are imagining what a dream might look like.
- artwork
- dreamscape ✓
- painting
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- A poem is a piece of text that artists can use to ______ them.
- 'inspire' ✓
- Leonora Carrington was a __________ artist.
- Impressionist
- Pop
- Surrealist ✓
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- True or false? Artists must always draw from what they observe in reality.
- True
- False ✓
- Surrealist artists are inspired by which of the following:
- texts, creatures and dreams
- texts, imagination and dreams ✓
- imagination, dreams and the outdoors
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- The keyword 'imagination' means:
- something you have not experienced in the real-world
- an idea in your head about something you have not experienced in the real-world ✓
- something you have experienced in the real-world
- an idea in your head
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Key learning points
- Dreams can inspire artists to create artwork, like the Surrealists.
- Dreamscapes use a combination of the artist’s imagination, ideas from dreams and things observed in reality.
- Texts can describe a dream which the artist can portray using images.
Common misconception
Artists need to observe from reality to make art.
Remind pupils that art can be an observation, but it can also be taking an idea we have in our heads and making it into an artwork.
Keywords
Dreamscape - the view of a dream, imagined by the artist
Imagination - an idea in your head about something you have not experienced in the real-world
Text - a piece of writing
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