Artdesign
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* Ask pupils what it feels like to have hay fever or a severe cold. How could this be conveyed in a portrait? Many expressionist artists have produced images of people in distress: photographs by Bas Jan Ader (“I’m too sad to tell you”); expressive portraits by Francis Bacon, Arnulf Rainer and Chaim Soutine; the sculpture of Julio Gonzalez (“Head of Screaming Montserrat”). Challenge pupils’ ingenuity - enlarge nose and eyes, or convey these in expressive colours, distort the face by deliberately moving during the production of a digital portrait, or build a large-scale head in clay which expressively reveals the internal pressures.
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