Art response: Leaving home
Summary of task
Students engaged in responding to the subject matter and narrative in Aboriginal Nyoongar artist Laurel Nannup’s woodcut print, Leaving home. They were also required to analyse elements such as shape, the artist’s choice to exclude colour, and the technique of printmaking. The artist’s context of her grandmother’s forced removal from her family was effectively covered as part of section 2 through the reading of the narrative that accompanies the artwork in a picture book.
Achievement standard
By the end of Year 2, students describe artworks they make and those to which they respond. They consider where and why people make artworks.
Students use the elements and processes of arts subjects to make and share artworks that represent ideas.
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Identifies a narrative about children leaving home with a clear personal response to the artwork -
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Identifies elements of shape in the artwork by drawing simple geometric responses -
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Understands that the artist chose to use black ink in the printing process to create a black and white artwork -
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Draws some key parts of the story from the artwork
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Links the artist’s personal and social context to the artwork -
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Demonstrates empathy in response to the grandmother’s story in the artwork through statement and drawing
Copyright
Leaving home (2001), woodcut, ink on paper. Copyright Laurel Nannup. Reproduced with permission.
