Basic 2 · Creative Arts · Appreciating and Appraising
Giving Views and Improving Artworks
In this topic you will share your views about displayed artworks and suggest how to improve them.
By the end of these notes you should be able to:
- Report your views about artworks
- Suggest ways to improve an artwork
- Improve your own artwork
What you already know
- Guidelines for viewing art
Copy everything that has a blue line on its left into your notebook. The other parts are for reading.
- Strand
- Visual Arts & Performing Arts
- Sub-strand
- Appreciating and Appraising
- Indicator
- B2.1.4.6.1 – Report own views and feelings about the displayed artworks and suggest how the artworks can be modified or improved
Introduction
After Clean Ghana Day, the class talks about what went well and what can be better next time.
1. Reporting Views
| Purpose | Sentence starter |
|---|---|
| say what you like | "I like the … because …" |
| say how it makes you feel | "It makes me feel …" |
| suggest an improvement | "It would be better if …" |
2. Improving an Artwork
- add more colour
- make the message bigger and clearer
- fix loose pieces with more glue
- add a title and label
New words
- view
- What you think about something.
- modify
- To change something a little.
- suggestion
- An idea to help.
- appraise
- To judge the quality of something.
Summary
- We report views using kind sentence starters.
- We suggest ways to improve artworks.
- Improving our work helps us grow as artists.
Class activity: Improve It
- Choose your own artwork.
- Listen to one suggestion from a classmate.
- Make one change to improve it.
You need: Learners’ own artworks, Locally made drum, Locally made appraisal cards
Exercises
Answer in your exercise book first, then check your answers.
1. Which is a kind suggestion?
- A. "It would be better with bigger words."
- B. "It is rubbish."
- C. "Throw it away."
- D. "I hate it."
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Answer: "It would be better with bigger words."It helps without hurting.2. To change something a little is to…
- A. Modify
- B. Destroy
- C. Copy
- D. Hide
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Answer: ModifyModify means change slightly.3. Artists can improve their work.
- A. True
- B. False
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Answer: TruePractice makes work better.4. We should only say bad things about art.
- A. True
- B. False
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Answer: FalseStart with what is good.5. What you think about something is your ______.
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Answer: viewThat is a view.6. Write a sentence suggesting how to improve a poster.
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Answer: E.g. It would be better if the colours were brighter.Use "It would be better if…".
Homework
- Improve one artwork at home and show it to your family.