DISCUSS What can you see in this image? 5 minutes DISCUSS What can you see in this image? What do you think the image is about? Are there any compositional devices used? Is colour of importance?

Learning Objectives You will… Learn about the work of the Suprematist artists. Understand the concepts and themes of their work. Create a Suprematist collage. What I’m looking for… You have an understanding of Suprematism; including date and artists as well as what concepts/themes their work involves. You gain an ability to use your observational drawing work and to abstract this in order to create a response to Suprematist Art. You develop your mixed-media skills using techniques previously learned.

10 minutes Suprematism (1913–1916) was developed and led by Russian artist Kasimir Malevich. His art was geometric, often colourless or with a reduced colour palette. Suprematism rejected all conventional definitions of art, in favour of an artistic exploration of a spiritual reality which Suprematists (Malevich and also El Lissitzky) believed they could express through geometric abstraction.

He was convinced that Suprematism had spiritual value 10 minutes While working on collaborative theatre and opera projects, Malevich met experimental writers who were exploring the connections between sound and meaning. Malevich made similar experiments with painting and developed an art of basic geometric shapes often painted in monochrome. He was convinced that Suprematism had spiritual value

Paintings became increasingly complex in colour and composition and the movement influenced art right into the 20’s and 30’s. 10 minutes The first Suprematist exhibition took place in Moscow in 1915. Suprematist paintings contained neither narrative nor social comment, nor did the Suprematists respect any of the traditional genres of painting. The reduction of painting to ‘pure language’ of basic shapes might have resulted in Suprematism’s quick demise as an art movement.

WATCH A TEACHER DEMONSTRATION TO LEARN HOW TO USE ONE OF YOUR LARGE-SCALE MORANDI STUDIES TO CREATE A SUPREMATIST ABSTRACT PIECE 5 minutes

Take a sheet of large tracing paper and overlay this onto the drawing, 20 minutes Choose your BEST study, Take a sheet of large tracing paper and overlay this onto the drawing, Now draw your entire drawing again, but ONLY in line. Now, select several areas of interest and draw various squares and/or rectangles, Once done, cut these out and then reassemble them in an interesting way, Glue them onto a sheet of A2 white paper.

PREP.WORK Record each of the drawing experiments that you have done using photography. Print out an A5 picture of each one to display across a double page spread in your book. Write a small evaluation and explanation about each one.

What did I do particularly well, and why? 5 minutes Reflect on each of the experiments that you have done and ask yourself the questions: What did I do particularly well, and why? What did I struggle with, and why? Where could I make improvements? Learning Objectives You will: Learn to carry out 4 workshops in order to learn 4 different techniques. Learn to work large-scale and be more loose and expressive. Learn not to be too precious about your work