KS3 Art & Design · Year 8 · six A4 sheets
Year 8 Art & Design
Knowledge Organisers
The Year 8 half-terms: colour and paint, the human figure and face, pattern across cultures, relief printmaking, clay and the vessel, and artist study.
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One A4 sheet per unit, in the order the units are taught. Each sheet carries the same five sections, so a pupil who has used one has used them all: the vocabulary they must be able to define, what they must know and what they must be able to do (kept apart), the single diagram worth remembering, and the misconceptions that cost marks.
Designed to be photocopied. Nothing on the page depends on being in colour, the body text is set for reading at desk distance rather than on a screen, and the vocabulary is laid out as a two-column table so a pupil can cover the meanings with a ruler and self-quiz.
- Written to
- Empower Educators Year 8 Art & Design scheme of work
- Intended for
- art teachers and heads of department. Printed one per pupil
- Extent
- 6 pages · 6 sections
The vocabulary
The words on each sheet, unit by unit
Each of the 6 A4 sheets in the Year 8 Art & Design Knowledge Organisers opens with the words a student must know for that unit. Here is which words, in the order they appear; the sheet gives each one a definition.
1a
Colour and Paint
Why does the same colour look different depending on what sits next to it?
Words on the sheet:primary, secondary, tertiary, hue, tint, shade, tone, complementary, harmonious, palette, consistency
1b
The Human Figure and Face
What has to be right before a drawing of a person starts to look like a person?
Words on the sheet:proportion, guideline, gesture, plane, foreshortening, contour, likeness, distortion, construction, sighting
2a
Pattern Across Cultures: Ancient to Modern
Who does a pattern belong to, and what changes when it travels?
Words on the sheet:motif, repeat, block, half-drop, tessellation, symmetry, rotation, stylisation, provenance, appropriation
2b
Relief Printmaking
What does a process give you that drawing by hand cannot?
Words on the sheet:relief, block, proof, edition, registration, reduction, burnishing, brayer, reversal, bench hook
3a
Clay and the Vessel
Why has almost every civilisation made pots, and why do they all look different?
Words on the sheet:vessel, profile, coil, slab, score, slip, leather-hard, greenware, bisque, burnish, incise
3b
Artist Study and Personal Response
If I choose the artist and the outcome myself, can I still work like an artist?
Words on the sheet:technique, research, experiment, development, refinement, response, pastiche, rationale, evidence, independence
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Contents
All 6 sections
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