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| Focus: Students can identify similarities and differences in a range of styles of painting. | ||
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| Questions / instructions: Different artists often make paintings in their own special way. I'm going to give you copies of 12 paintings, and I want you to group them into pairs. Each pair of pictures should be quite similar in the ways the artists have painted them. They should look as if they belong together. |
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Give the
student the 12 pictures in order in a stack, numbered 1 to 12.
Help the student spread out the stack. |
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1. Remember, you are going to put them into pairs, and each pair of pictures will be quite similar in the ways the artists have painted them. Matching similar styles of painting: |
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Percentage
of students who correctly matched pairs of paintings in the same style
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paintings
1 and 4
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58
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69
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paintings
2 and 7
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85
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95
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paintings
3 and 10
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46
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60
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paintings
5 and 8
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71
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86
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paintings
6 and 12
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78
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88
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paintings
9 and 11
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36
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53
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picture 1 and picture 4 together — set aside the other pictures. I want you to look carefully at the way these two pictures have been painted. |
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2. Try to describe to me
what is quite similar about the way the artist has painted these two pictures.
Identification of similarities in paintings |
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and 4: colours/tonal range used; colour effects/exaggerations (e.g. for sky–greens;
tree trunks–blues); style/technique (swirly lines); sense of movement
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explains
3 features or elaborates well on 2 or more features
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7 | 12 | ||||||||||||||
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explains
2 features
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22 | 34 | ||||||||||||||
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explains
1 feature
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49 | 47 | ||||||||||||||
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any
other response
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22 | 7 | ||||||||||||||
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pictures 2 and 7 together, and pictures 9 and 11 together. Put the other pictures
aside. This time I want you to look carefully at this pair of pictures (point to 2 and 7) and compare them with this pair (point to 9 and 11). |
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3.
Try to describe to me what is quite different about the way the artists have painted
these two pictures (point to 2 and 7) and these two (point to 9 and 11). Prompt: What is different about these two pairs of paintings? |
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straight
lines vs lack of lines (e.g. angular vs blurry); solid blocks of colour vs dotting/mixing;
bold vs detailed shapes and elements.
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explains
3 features or elaborates well on 2 or more features
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9
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24
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explains
2 features
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27
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35
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explains
1 feature
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40
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31
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any
other response
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24
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9
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| Commentary: A good percentage of both year 4 and year 8 students successfully matched pairs of paintings done in similar styles, and many were able to explain one or two features that were characteristically similar or different in particular styles of painting. |
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