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Art Visit

On Thursday 11 March, Year 3 pupils visited the National Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery with the aim of enhancing their skills, knowledge and understanding of art, by hands-on art activities in a series of interactive workshops such as ‘Getting the Message’ and ‘The Tudors’.

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The pupils were given a chance to examine how portraits by Reynolds, Gainsborough and their contemporaries convey messages about the sitter through clothing, pose, composition and objects in the painting, and to select one work to draw using pastels.

Also, following a discussion about the Elizabethan idea of beauty, pupils drew Queen Elizabeth I using the Tudor method of copying portraits called ‘pouncing’, and completed their portraits in colour.

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The pupils gained a lot from their visit as it was integrated into a sequence of portraiture-based work in school, including pre and post-visit activities such as drawing portraits and working from a live model of their own, in order to gain confidence in translating ideas onto a two-dimensional surface. The trip was organized by Mrs Robertson. VN

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