Viewpoints and techniques: disability and art
I can explore how artists with disabilities share their viewpoints.
Viewpoints and techniques: disability and art
I can explore how artists with disabilities share their viewpoints.
These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- In art, a viewpoint relates to an artist’s personal opinions, experiences and point of view.
- Art by disabled artists gives the audience powerful ways to think about viewpoints as it shows their unique experiences.
- Art by disabled artists may use different techniques to share their viewpoint.
- Mouth and foot painting are techniques where the brush is controlled with the foot or mouth to create a painting.
Keywords
Viewpoint - an artist's own personal opinion, experiences and point of view
Techniques - the different ways in which artists use the materials and media they work with.
Mouth and foot painting - controlling a brush or tool with the foot or mouth to create a painting
Common misconception
Art must be created with the hands.
Art is for everyone whatever their circumstances and is not always created through using hands. Artists can create art in innovative ways without using hands. Art is a way for all of humanity to express their viewpoints and diverse experiences.
To help you plan your year 7 art and design lesson on: Viewpoints and techniques: disability and art, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your year 7 art and design lesson on: Viewpoints and techniques: disability and art, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
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Equipment
Drawing materials, string, tape, trays, ink, marbles or similar, paper.
Licence
Lesson video
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
as wide a variety of marks of differing types an artist can invent
how something feels or looks like it would feel if you touched it
the focus, topic or image of an artwork
a design in which different elements are repeated