artwork created to influence people’s opinions, or actions, by promoting a message

when someone pays an artist to create a specific piece based on their request and specifications

Art and war

Art and design

Pupils will explore social action in a variety of forms, from collaborative practice to inndividual action and how art works can challenge ideas and influenece decisions. These lessons encourage critical thinking and self-expression, fostering creativity, empathy, and social awareness.

Social action

Discriminatory behaviour or images, whether on the grounds of race, gender, disability, religion or belief or sexual orientation, or otherwise.

Depiction or discussion of discriminatory behaviour

Historic or outdated representations of people that may portray inequality or injustice.

Subjects which particular individuals may be sensitive to, eg, adoption, migration, bereavement or death, divorce, poverty, deprivation.

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

Depiction of war, threats of war, death or the aftermath of war.

Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering

Depiction or discussion of violence or fighting, including threats of violence or the aftermath of violence.

Landscape paintings, abstract sculptures, and personal responses

Propaganda, commissioned war art, and personal responses

Street art, digital art, and commissioned war art

Which are the three most likely types of artworks commonly created about war and conflict?

art created to influence opinions, or actions, by promoting a message

when someone pays an artist to make artwork to their specifications

art influenced by the experience, emotion or perspective of the artist

The artist’s desire to promote others' opinions

The artist’s experiences and emotions related to a subject or event

The artist's account of a historical event

What do personal response artworks often reflect?

Fill the gap: Personal response artworks have greater freedoms to criticise wars and represent the {{}} of war than commissioned war art or propaganda. 

By focusing on marks, textures, and impactful imagery 

By using colours that only represent peace

Which statement is mostly likely how artists convey their negative experiences and emotions related to war?

What it the correct term for artwork created to influence people’s opinions, or actions, by promoting a message?

A colour palette with bright and bold colours only

A colour palette with a wide range of warm and cool tones

A colour palette with a few selected colours

A colour palette with natural colours only

the artist's personal emotions and thoughts

the main focus or theme that the artwork depicts or represents

Complete the sentence: The subject of an artwork is...

Dripping and splattering ink to a surface

Placing a subject in the center of the artwork

Using a paintbrush to create strokes on a canvas

Which of these is not an example of mark-making?

The way a subject is positioned or arranged in the artwork

 What does the term "pose" refer to in art?

It conveys the subject's mood, character, or comfort level

It describes the shadow and background surrounding the subject

It focuses only on the subject's physical features

It reveals the subject's clothing and accessories

How can body pose be used to tell us about the subject in an artwork?

Content guidance

Depiction or discussion of discriminatory behaviour

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

Depiction or discussion of serious crime

Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering

Adult supervision required

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.

Art and war

Lesson outcome

Content guidance

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.