Poster Design:Illustration
Overview
Create a poster to illustrate a school subject.
Overcoming adversity through creativity. Henri Matisse’s ill health led him to transition from painting to papercut when he could no longer stand at the easel. He discovered alternative ways to be creative.
Techniques: Drawing objects and figures, papercut compositions (drawing with scissors), design and composition.
FBV: Individual liberty
Cultural Capital: Arts, creativity to aid mental well-being
UN Rights of the Child:
23. Children with disabilities
29. Aims of education
31. Rest, play, culture, arts
Example Key Words
Shapes
Shapes are two-dimensional. Positive shapes represent solid objects and negative shapes show the surrounding space. Geometric shapes are perfect and regular. Organic shapes are irregular and natural.
Geometric
Geometric shapes are mathematical shapes. They are perfect and regular. They are characterised by straight lines, angles and points.
An exception to this would be a perfect circle as it has no straight lines or points. Other geometric shapes are squares, rectangles, triangles, parallelograms, hexagons etc.
Collage
A piece of art made by sticking various different materials such as photographs and pieces of paper or fabric on to a backing.
Composition
The arrangement of elements within a work of art.