WEEK 6 (w/c 7 Dec): Teaching resources
GIVING OUR ATTENTION & THOUGHTS
All Key Stages
The French painter Jean Dubuffet founded the Art Brut movement which promoted works of raw expression of emotion which he tried to incorporate into his own paintings and drawings. The work Footprints in the sand may be interesting to consider in terms of drawing connections.
bit.ly/footprints-dubuffet
Aliza Nisenbaum paints colourful realist paintings which often demonstrate social bonds and collaborative labour, tracing networks of relationships as well as presenting portraiture:
bit.ly/nisenbaum
Family pictures:
Henry Moore’s sculptures were inspired by natural forms such as pebbles and rocks which you can see in the curves of his simplified figurative forms:
bit.ly/family-moore
This is a vibrant, colourful sketch of a family group on horseback with interesting mark making:
bit.ly/horseback-kessler
In terms of written portraits, Sarah Kay’s poetic tribute to her primary headteacher might be a little long, but is a beautiful poem with great messages which link to the five ways around learning, connection and giving:
Foundation, KS 1 & KS2
An interesting project that explored connections was Steve McQueen’s ‘Year 3’ based on the traditional
class portrait, with tens of thousands of children participating:
KS2 & up
From a Christmas Carol this brief clip features Scrooge’s nephew Fred explaining the meaning of Christmas (2min2s):
bit.ly/meaning-scrooge
Looking more broadly about hope and the future, Roger McGough has a lovely call to action poem encouraging for the future:
bit.ly/mcgough-tomorrow
For those of you looking at ‘poems about other people’, Laurie Bolger’s poem ‘The Girls’ is a lovely tribute to a long friendship:
KS3 & KS4
Chris once wrote a love poem using imagery from the world of Harry Potter (it contains spoilers so not one for those who have not completed the story!):
Luke Wright’s recent tribute to bin crews is a short and less conventional ode:
bit.ly/binmen-wright
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WEEK 5 (w/c 30 Nov): Teaching resources
THE ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENT & NOTICING SOUND
All Key Stages
Harry & Chris are a poetry/music group who use rhyme and rap in their work. Here’s a song they wrote about bumblebees and self confidence:
bit.ly/chris-harry-bees
If you want something a little different about sound, here’s Grace Savage doing a brilliant beat-box mash up:
bit.ly/grace-mashup
Kandinsky is the artist most renowned for the connections to music within his work as he believed music and colour were inextricably linked, associating each note with an exact hue. Kandinsky gave many of his paintings musical titles, such as Composition or Improvisation. A key work is Composition VIII, it’s geometric forms are described as “dynamic and calm, aggressive and quiet”:
bit.ly/composition-kandinsky
Stuart Davis , the American painter, considered jazz to be the musical equivalent of abstract painting and many of his works demonstrate rhythm and geometry that reflects the tempo and cadence of jazz. See in particular Swing Landscape. Collection of works here:
bit.ly/works-davis
You can also reference Mark Rothko’s obsession with Mozart and Jackson Pollock and jazz.
KS3 & KS4
Isaiah Hull is a brilliant young northern poet, here he is in front a massive crowd performing a poem about Grime music for BBC 1 Extra:
bit.ly/hull-grime
Digital copies of week 5’s letter by Key Stage:
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