Year 8 · Art and design · Art movements · Lesson 4

Comparing movements and making a response

Comparing Impressionism, Cubism and Pop Art (dates, artists, subject, colour, mark-making), writing comparisons, and planning an original artist response with annotation.

18-minute video lesson

Teaching, worked examples and 20 practice questions solved step by step.

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What your child will learn

Compare three art movements
Write comparison sentences
Explain what an artist response is
Plan, annotate and evaluate your own response

The method

Choose + why.
3 techniques.
Thumbnails.
Make, annotate, evaluate.

Key words: compare, artist response, annotation, evaluate, Impressionism, Cubism, Pop Art.

Worked examples

The first three practice questions from the lesson, with every step.

Question 1

Which movement began in France in the 1870s?

Step 1: Light

Answer: Impressionism

Question 2

Which movement shows several viewpoints at once?

Step 1: Picasso

Answer: Cubism

Question 3

Which movement uses adverts and comics?

Step 1: Warhol

Answer: Pop Art