• 4.7 explores aspects of practice in critical and historical interpretations of art.
• 4.9 begins to acknowledge that art can be interpreted from different points of view.

• 5.7 applies their understanding of aspects of practice to critical and historical interpretations of art.
• 5.9 demonstrates how the frames provide different interpretations of art.

• Literacy
• Difference and diversity
• Information and communication technology.

• large butchers paper
• pencils
• charcoal
• pastels
• The Frames infographic (PDF 5,709 KB)
  
• access to the following artworks (these are suggested artworks and may be substituted for alternatives if required)
  • Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1893
  • Vincent Van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889
  • Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937
  • Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory, 1931.

In groups, students will:

• select one of the artworks above
• assign a frame to explore the artwork. For example -
  • The Subjective frame: Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1893,
  • The Structural frame: Vincent Van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889,
  • The Cultural frame: Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937
  • The Post Modern frame: Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory, 1931
  • use the elements and principles of design to create a frame on the butchers paper that portrays a perspective of looking at that artwork through that view. Repeat this process again on another artwork from the list.
• discuss how each frame changed the perspectives of the artworks around the room The Frames infographic (PDF 5.709 KB) provides guided questions to assist with this)
• answer the following questions in their diary or blog

1. How are the frames different?
2. How do the frames influence your perspective?

• play The Frames and Conceptual Framework Kahoot quiz.

Critical analysis

The Scream and the subjective frame

Students will:

• read the article What is the meaning of The Scream?
• write a word bank of any terms they are unfamiliar with in the article
• write a story using the word bank above as descriptive language to support their view from the subjective frame and describe what is happening to the subject matter within the artwork
  
• discuss the use of descriptive language and how it influences the perspective of the reader in both the historical and critical text excerpt
• highlight the subjective language examples within historical and critical analysis (an example has been provided below).

Historical text

The exhibition at the Neue Galerie explores the relationship between Munch, who was born the second of five children to an impoverished military doctor in 1863, and the avant-garde Expressionist art movement that emerged in Germany and Austria in the early years of the 20th Century. Although the show concentrates on the latter stages of the artist's career (Munch died in 1944), it still finds room for The Scream of 1895, which he created three years after first arriving in Berlin, where he quickly made a notorious name for himself.

It was in Germany, during several creatively frenzied years, while fraternising with like-minded artists and writers, such as his close friend August Strindberg, at a bar called the Black Piglet, that Munch created the major paintings which remain his best-known works, including The Vampire and Madonna. They were conceived for his epic, semi-autobiographical series The Frieze of Life, which transmuted his own high-keyed emotions concerning love, sexuality and death into universal symbols. The original, 1893 version of The Scream was one of 22 elements in the cycle.

Critical text

Beneath a boiling sky, aflame with yellow, orange and red, an androgynous figure stands upon a bridge. Wearing a sinuous blue coat, which appears to flow, surreally, into a torrent of aqua, indigo and ultramarine behind him, he holds up two elongated hands on either side of his hairless, skull-like head.

His eyes wide with shock, he unleashes a bloodcurdling shriek. Despite distant vestiges of normality - two figures upon the bridge, a boat on the fjord - everything is suffused with a sense of primal, overwhelming horror.

Text extracts from What is the meaning of The Scream? BBC, date accessed /09/03/18.

Vincent Van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889 date accessed 09/03/18.

Students will:

• read through the information on the website Artble Starry Night Analysis
• draw a quick sketch of the work
• identify the picture plane and patterns within the art. The analysis below has an example of this.

• create a Sway presentation outlining their knowledge of the structural facts on the composition of the artwork.

Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937 date accessed 09/03/18

Students will:

• watch the following videos as an introduction to the meaning of the artwork
  • clip The weeping woman from 1.10 ? 1.50 mins
  • Guernica Subliminal Images
• Use the internet to research and create a newspaper article (referencing the artwork of Guernica) about the events that took place in Spain in 1937
• highlight signs and symbols from within the painting that suggest factual information to the reader.

Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory, 1931 date accessed 09/03/18.

Students will:

• compare the work of Salvador Dali to an example of a traditional landscape painting such as Claude Lorrain, Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia, 1682

Claude Lorrain, Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia, 1682, date accessed 09/03/19.

• answer the following questions:
  • What elements of design have been applied to both?
  • How have these been manipulated within Dali's representation of his world to communicate the 'surreal' as opposed to the 'sublime'? Define these terms in relation to the examples above.
• creating an advertisement campaign for an exhibition of the artwork which justifies its overall meaning.

Written responses are documented and shared within collaborative discussion facilitated by the teacher.

Students are to:

• document the process of their artmaking within a journal. This can be their visual arts process diary, or an online blog through sites such as Google classroom.
• photograph or sketch the process used.

• Scream Article, date accessed 09/03/18.
• Frame Image, date accessed 09/03/18.
• Guernica YouTube, date accessed 09/03/18.
• Interactive activities, date accessed 30/03/22.
• Introductory PowerPoint, date accessed 09/03/18.
• Introductory Prezi, date accessed 09/03/18.
• The elements of design, date accessed 09/03/18.
• Geurnica Image, date accessed 09/03/18.
• The persistence of memory image, date accessed 09/03/18.
• The scream, date accessed 09/03/18.
• The Starry Night image, date accessed 09/03/18.
• Traditional landscape image, date accessed 09/03/18.