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ASSESSMENT CONDITIONS LEVEL2ASSESSMENTTASK Time allowed: up to 50 minutes English and/or Bilingual dictionaries MAY NOT be used Uses some topic specific vocabulary Grammar and spelling

review Carefully check your spelling and punctuation Assessment Criteria Uses the appropriate text structure Organises text in paragraphs Expresses opinion Overall Achievement WRITING

1 ASSESSMENT CONDITIONS LEVEL2ASSESSMENTTASK Time allowed: up to 50 minutes English and/or Bilingual dictionaries MAY NOT be used Uses some topic specific vocabulary Grammar and spelling errors which do not interfere with meaning are admissible TASK: Write a response to the art work: Apples and oranges by Paul Cezanne Use the guide on the following page to write your review Carefully check your spelling and punctuation Assessment Criteria Uses the appropriate text structure Organises text in paragraphs Expresses opinion Overall Achievement WRITING Can write a simple personal response ACHIEVEMENT KEY H = Highly achieved A = Achieved P = Progressing towards achievement D = Experiencing difficulty N = Not Attempted Name Class Date 1

2 RESPONSEWRITINGGUIDE CONTEXT DESCRIPTION OPINION TITLE Name of the art work and the artist and any other relevant background information A brief description of the art work. Your personal opinion Why you like it or don t like it. PLANNINGSPACE Use this space to plan your writing, write down some words to use etc. Do not start writing your response here 2

3 WRITINGSPACE Write your response here. Ask your teacher if you need more paper. 3

4 Paul Cezanne (French ) 3-LEVELGUIDE1A The rich design of Apples and Oranges is built up from the simple shapes of everyday objects which Cezanne kept with him, and painted time and again in the quiet of his own studio. He does not hide the fact that the painting is deliberately contrived and unnatural : the objects appear to be slipping off the table, which itself is seen from a very strange angle. Shapes appear distorted as they are shown from more than one viewpoint simultaneously - for example, the base of the fruit dish is seen from the side, while it s bowl is seen from above. The use of distortion and shifting viewpoint was carefully thought out. It allowed Cezanne to depict natural forms and the relationship between them, while stressing the essential difference between reality and a painting - an arrangement of colour on a canvas. Creating shapes with colour. Colour - not light and shade - defines the geometric forms of the fruit. The apple on the lower right, for example, is described by overlapping colours ranging from deep red at the edges, through orange tones, to a yellow highlight. Painted flowers. Cezanne incorporated this jug in many of his still- lifes, setting it s painted flowers against real fruit in a kind of visual pun. Apples and Oranges Oil on canvas 73cm x 92cm See in nature the cylinder, the sphere and the cone. Paul Cezanne 4

5 FACTUAL FACTUAL, DEDUCTIVE or HYPERTHETICAL Answer whether the following statements are true or false. Cezanne uses more than one viewpoint (seen from more than one angle) in his painting Apples and Oranges Apples and Oranges was painted between the years1895 and 1900 It was painted with oil paint on board. Cezanne liked to depict the relationship between natural forms. Cezanne was more concerned with the arrangement of colour on a canvas, than he was with painting a realistic image. DEDUCTIVE Cezanne did not mind disobeying the laws of nature in his paintings. Cezanne loved to paint Still Lifes. Cezanne loved gometric shapes. HYPERTHETICAL 3-LEVELGUIDE1B Paintings that have bright colours are more beautiful than those that don t. Still-Life paintings are more beautiful than Portraits. Apples and Oranges Oil on canvas 73cm x 92cm Students should first justify their answers individually by quoting the text. They should then be put into pairs and each pair discuss and then present a common answer. They should then be put into fours and then eights and again present and justify a common answer. 5

6 VOCABULARY3-LEVELGUIDE1 ENGLISH CHINESE design deliberately contrived distorted simultaneously distortion shifting viewpoint relationship essential arrangement geometric overlapping tones highlight incorporated visual pun cylinder sphere cone 6

7 Self Portrait Oil on canvas 1879 The illegitimate son of a wealthy, domineering father, Paul Cezanne studied law and worked in the family bank in Aix-en-Provence before moving north to paint in Paris. His wildly erotic early works - and his tense. neurotically suspicious character - earned him a reputation as an eccentric. But he struggled for many years to master his medium, and at last emerged as one of the greatest artists of the 19th century. Through contact with the Impressionists, he began to paint nature and gradually developed a completely new pictorial language, which was to establish him as the father of modern art. He spent most of his mature years working alone in remote Provence, and dedicated his life to art. Fame came late: in 1895 a one-man show revealed his genius to an unsuspecting public. He died at 67, after being caught in a storm while painting. 3-LEVELGUIDE2A Apples and Oranges Oil on canvas 73cm x 92cm This is one of the most sumptuous of all Cezanne s Still- Lifes. The complex arrangement of fruit, dishes, jug and drapery on a table which slopes dramatically upwards from the left is given stability by the bold zig-zag line created by the edges of the white cloth. It was painted in Aix:. Some of the objects in the painting are still preserved there, in his Chemin des Lauves studio. 7

FACTUAL 3-LEVELGUIDE2B FACTUAL, DEDUCTIVE or HYPERTHETICAL Answer whether the following statements are true or false. Cezanne worked in a bank before becoming an artist.

8 FACTUAL 3-LEVELGUIDE2B FACTUAL, DEDUCTIVE or HYPERTHETICAL Answer whether the following statements are true or false. Cezanne worked in a bank before becoming an artist. Cezanne was one of the greatest artists of the 18th century. Cezanne developed a completely new pictorial language, which was to establish him as the father of modern art DEDUCTIVE Aix-en-Provence is south of Paris. Cezanne was an Impressionist painter. Cezanne only painted Still-Life paintings. Cezanne became famous when he was still very young. HYPERTHETICAL Still-Life paintings are more beautiful than paintings of people. Cezanne did not like people and preferred to be alone. It is more difficult to paint a good Portrait than a Still-Life. Self Portrait Oil on canvas 1879 Students should first justify their answers individually by quoting the text. They should then be put into pairs and each pair discuss and then present a common answer. They should then be put into fours and then eights and again present and justify a common answer. 8

developed pictorial establish dedicated fame sumptuous Still- Life complex

9 ENGLISH CHINESE ENGLISH CHINESE illegitimate wealthy domineering erotic suspicious character reputation eccentric medium emerged Impressionist nature gradually developed pictorial establish dedicated fame sumptuous Still- Life complex arrangement drapery dramatically stability studio Self Portrait Oil on canvas 1879 VOCABULARY3-LEVELGUIDE2 9

10 Colour the picture using the same colours that Cezanne has used. Describe the colours that Cezanne has used? What effect does his use of colour create? What do you think this painting is about? What do you think Cezanne is mainly concerned with? 10

11 Name : ArtAppreciation Class : Name of the Artwork : Name of the Artist : What sort of compositional elements can you see? What sort of colours can you see? What materials do you think this artist used? How do you think the artist was feeling or thinking when they made this picture? Why? How does this artwork make you feel? What do you like about this artwork? What don t you like about this artwork? National outcomes 4.23 Talks and writes about personal observations of visual artworks. Describes their own interpretation of and response to an artwork. 11

12 WRITINGAPERSONALRESPONSETOANARTWORK Structure ContextofArtwork DescriptionofArtwork Judgement(Opinion) 12

13 WRITINGAPERSONALRESPONSETOANARTWORK APersonalResponseisaWritingGenrelikeaRecount,anEssay oranexosition. Purpose:(Why?)TorespondtoanArtwork. Structure:(How?)3paragraphs 1.ContextofArtwork. IsitanOil-Painting,aSculpture,aPrint, aphotographetc? WhoistheArtist? Whenwasitpainted? IsitpartofanArtMovement? IsitaPortrait,aLandscape,aStill-Life, aself-portrait,anabstractetc? 2.DescriptionofArtwork WhatElementsofDesigncanyousee? Whichonesaredominant? Howdotheyhelpthepaintingtobesuccessful? Whatcoloursdoestheartistuse?Why? Whatdoyouthinkthepictureisabout? Isthereastory?Isthereamessage? Howdoesthepicturemakeyoufeel? Doyourelatetothispicyure? 3.Judgement(Opinion) Doyouthinkthispictureissuccessful? Ifso.Why?Ifnot.Whynot? Doyoulikethispainting? Ifso.Why?Ifnot.Whynot? (youropinionisimportant) 13

LEVEL 2 ASSESSMENT TASK. WRITING Can write a simple personal response

LEVEL 2 ASSESSMENT TASK. WRITING Can write a simple personal response ASSESSMENT CONDITIONS LEVEL 2 ASSESSMENT TASK Time allowed: up to 50 minutes English and/or Bilingual dictionaries MAY NOT be used Uses some topic specific vocabulary Grammar and spelling errors which