Medium Term Plan–Visual Art

Phase – Years 1 and 2

Year 1 / Year 2
Autumn 1 / Elements of Art: Colour
  1. Some colours can seem warm (red, orange, yellow)
  2. Some colours can seem cool (blue, green, grey)
  3. Artists use colour to set a scene or create a feeling, for example, Pieter Brugel, The Hunters in the Snow
/ Elements of Art: Colour, Shape and Texture (1)
  1. The primary colours are red, yellow and blue
  2. Green, purple and orange are often called secondary colours
  3. Primary colours can be mixed to make secondary colours

Autumn 2 / Elements of Art: Line
  1. We can draw different lines including straight, zigzag, curved, wavy, thick or thin
  2. We can use different tools to create different lines
  3. Joan Miro used lines in an interesting way in his art work called Peinture (Painting)
/ Elements of Art: Colour, Shape and Texture (2)
  1. Basic geometric shapes – squares, rectangles, triangles, circles and ovals can be found in artworks
  2. Picasso was an artist who explored shape in many of his pieces of artwork
  3. Tactile texture can be touched and felt; visual texture is how artists create an image that suggests texture, for example, painting a rabbit’s fur.

Spring 1 / Types of Art: Architecture
  1. Architecture is the designing of buildings
  2. Architects can design buildings in many different ways
  3. Some famous British buildings include The Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey
/ Portraits and Self Portraits
  1. A portrait is a piece of artwork showing a real person
  2. A self-portrait is an artwork made by an artist of him/herself
  3. We can gain impressions of different people from looking at portraits and self-portraits

Spring 2 / The Language of Art
  1. Style is the way a piece of art looks
  2. Narrative is the word we use for a story in a work of art
  3. Character refers to the main figures in a work of art
/ Art of Ancient Egypt
  1. During Ancient Egyptian times, people were creating paintings, sculptures and architecture
  2. The Great Sphinx is a large statue of a lion with a human head
  3. Ancient Egyptians created decorated sarcophagi within which they placed mummified bodies of important Egyptians, such as pharaohs

Summer 1 / Paintings of Children
  1. When we draw children we must think about the details we need to include (position, clothes, expression)
  2. We can find out about children from the past by looking at works of art
  3. Pieter Brugel’sChildren’s Games is a very old painting showing lots of children playing different games
/ Christian and Medieval Art
  1. Illuminated manuscripts are handmade, hand written, highly decorated pages put together in a book
  2. The Lindisfarne Gospels are illuminated manuscripts written by a monk using calligraphy and detailed decorations
  3. The Sutton Hoo burial ship contained buried arts and treasures belonging to an Anglo-Saxon king

Summer 2 / Narrative Paintings
  1. Narrative paintings tell a story
  2. We can read what we see in a painting, without using words
  3. The story of Saint George and the Dragon is a legend that has been painted by many different artists
/ Types of Art: Murals
  1. Murals are a type of art that is painted directly on a wall
  2. Cave paintings are an example of murals
  3. Leonardo da Vinci painted a mural called The Last Supper, it is one of the world’s most famous paintings

Medium Term Plan– Visual Art

Phase – Years 3 and 4

Year 3 / Year 4
Autumn 1 / Elements of Art: Line, Symmetry and Form (1)
  1. Three possible directions for drawing lines are - horizontal, vertical and diagonal
  2. Paul Klee is a famous artist who used lines in interesting ways
  3. We can think about our use of line when creating our own art work
/ Elements of Art: Light, Space and Design (1)
  1. Artists often use light and shadow in their work
  2. Sometimes light and shadow are used to focus our attention or create a mood
  3. Johannes Vermeer used colour to create the effect of light in his painting The Milkmaid

Autumn 2 / Elements of Art: Line, Symmetry and Form (2)
  1. When we talk about art, we can use the word form to describe a complex shape, for example, the form of the human body
  2. When artists sculpt, they create form. When painting, artists use colours and perspective to create the impression of form (to make something look 3D)
  3. Symmetry is when a part of an image or object is reflected or balanced in another side
/ Elements of Art: Light, Space and Design (2)
  1. Two dimensional refers to height and width whereas three dimensional refers to height, width and depth
  2. Artists can make what they depict look three dimensional by thinking about the foreground, middle ground and background in a piece of art work
  3. Design refers to how all the elements of art work together to create a whole piece of art

Spring 1 / Kinds of Pictures: Landscapes
  1. Landscapes are images of nature or the natural environment
  2. John Constable was an artist who is famous for painting landscapes
  3. The weather often plays an important role in paintings of landscape
/ Types of Art: Embroidery and Needlework
  1. Embroidery is the decorating of fabric using a thread and a needle
  2. Cross stitch is a kind of embroidery using stiches in the shape of small crosses
  3. A Tapestry is a piece of art created by stitching or weaving coloured threads onto a fabric canvas

Spring 2 / Kinds of Pictures: Still Life
  1. Still life paintings are images of one or more inanimate objects
  2. Paul Cezanne painted still life pieces, often depicting fruit such as apples and oranges
  3. Sometimes artists paint objects many times to get the exact picture they want to create

Summer 1 / Kinds of Pictures: Mythological Paintings
  1. Mythological paintings show characters and/or stories from myths
  2. Myths often come from stories told by Ancient Greeks and Romans
  3. Pablo Picasso painted the character of the Minotaur in his art work, Minotaur and his Wife
/ Monuments of Rome and Byzantium
  1. Emperors in Ancient Rome and Byzantium used and adapted public monuments to show their power
  2. Some monuments were used to tell stories of things that had happened
  3. Trajan’s Column was built in Ancient Rome and shows Emperor Trajan’s victories in battles

Summer 2 / Types of Art: Architecture
  1. Architecture is the art of designing buildings
  2. Symmetry is important to architects when they are designing buildings
  3. When we look at buildings we can think about line, shape and special features such as columns and domes

Medium Term Plan – Visual Art

Phase – Years 5 and 6

Year 5 / Year 6
Autumn 1 / Language of Art: Style
  1. The word ‘style’ in the context of art, refers to how something looks
  2. We can compare the style of two different pieces of art, for example, Stubbs’s Whistlejacket is smooth in style as the paint is carefully blended, whereas Munch’s The Scream is rough in style as the colours are unmixed
  3. Rococo and Modernism are two types of art that differ hugely in style
/ Language of Art
  1. Figurative art refers to the style of works of art that show reality or life-like forms
  2. Abstract art is the opposite of figurative art, it reflects an idea or suggestion rather than the thing itself
  3. Works of art are often divided into different genres, for example, landscape, still life, abstract etc.
  4. Perspective in art refers to the technique of making something that is 2D look 3D
  5. The word renaissance comes from an Italian word meaning re-birth and it describes a time when artists began painting art showing the real world, rather than scenes from heaven as were popular in the Middle Ages

Autumn 2 / Islamic Art and Architecture
  1. Islamic Art often contains intricate, repeating patterns
  2. Islamic calligraphy is one type of Islamic art and there are many examples of illuminated manuscripts, including illumination of the Qur’an
  3. Some key features of Islamic architecture include domes and minarets

Spring 1 / The Art of Africa
  1. A long time ago in Africa, art was used to remember stories from the past
  2. In Mali, headdresses were made in the shape of antelopes and were worn when retelling stories
  3. In Benin, masks were carved to represent important people such as Kings and Queens
/ Art and Architecture of the Italian Renaissance
  1. Renaissance art placed a new focus on humanity and the natural world
  2. Linear perspective refers to the idea that the further away you are from something, the smaller it appears.
  3. Renaissance sculpture showed very realistic natural forms, such as Michelangelo’s David
  4. Renaissance architecture focussed on making beautiful buildings, often using curves and domes and sometimes decorated on the inside with renaissance art

Spring 2 / The Art of the East: China
  1. A long time ago, Chinese stories were painted onto silk scrolls which could be rolled up and transported easily
  2. In Chinese calligraphy, each word is represented by a symbol drawn using a brush dipped in ink
  3. Jade is a stone that has been used in China since ancient times for carving tools and sculptures

Summer 1 / Types of Art: Prints and Print Making
  1. Printmaking is an indirect art form, a design is created on one material, pressed with ink and then transferred onto another material
  2. One of the benefits of printmaking is that many versions of the same design can be created
  3. William Hogarth was an artist who explored printmaking
/ Victorian Art
  1. During the Victorian times, some artists reflected their feelings about the Industrial Revolution through their art
  2. Gothic architecture was a style of architecture that was popular in the Middle Ages, buildings had lots of stone carving, pointed arches and churches had tall spires
  3. During the Victorian times, Gothic architecture became popular again
  4. William Morris was an artist who felt people had been treated in better ways before the industrial revolution, he designed wallpaper, tiles, furniture and fabrics by hand instead of by machine

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