Victoria Art Gallery – Key Stage 2

Image: Through Wartime eyes activity

Through wartime eyes activity.

 

Image: Schools session at the Victoria Art gallery

Facing up to it activity.

 

Download a Teachers Pack for Key Stages 1 and 2 here.

 

Colour collisions

Investigate the special exhibition and explore abstract art through amazing colours and shapes.  (11 Feb - 21 March)

 

Gallery treasures

Discover a Gallery treasure - the most popular painting, The Watersplash and explore different techniques the artist, Henry Herbert La Thangue, uses to create impresssions of perspective, movement and light.

 

Creating landscapes

Explore the range of methods of landscapae artists such as Walter Sickert and Francis Danby and create responses to work in dry materials.

 

Make your move!
Look at movement in the works of artists such as William Roberts, Kenneth Armitage and Thomas Sidney ooper.  Create work based on movement.

 

Blitzed in Bath

Explore paintings documenting the Bath Blitz of 1942.  Pupils will produce artwork and drawings using pastel and ink

 

Facing up to it

Work with portraits by artists such as Rex Whistler, Johann Zoffany and Peter Blake and use a range of media to draw portraits in pairs. Produce a 3D abstract piece of work using card and scissors.  Explore our amazing earth sculptures by Peter Burke until 5 February.