Rights, respect and responsibilities at Year 7

1. Rights, respect and responsibilities at Year 7 Suggested teaching ideas and supporting resources: visual art Compiled for HIAS by Dylan Theodore

2. Ideas and stimuli for expressing responses to rights issues using art with a public message

3. Art with a public message: how do they do that? • Have you seen TV programmes, photographs, pictures or films that make you think about an important issue? • Do you know of any images, adverts or films that try to persuade you that there is something wrong in the world that needs putting right? • What did the artist do to make you stop and think like that? How did he or she make sure their work gave out a strong message that you could not ignore?

4. Art with a message: how do they do that? • Take a look at the following images and ask yourself: are they just for fun, or is the artist trying to say something important too? • What media, materials and techniques is the artist using?

5. Darling Wim Delvoye

6. Mel Calman

7. “That’s not my political opinion. That’s just stuff I heard on the radio.” The New Yorker

8. Shooting stars Teun Hocks

9. (Untitled) Teun Hocks

10. Hoovering Teun Hocks

11. How dare you not be me? Barbara Kruger

12. Art with a message: how do they do that? • So, the artists are using jokes, humour and ridiculous situations. • They also seem to be using contrast. • They take something ordinary and then put something unexpected alongside. There is a twist or surprise that makes you look twice, or think again. • What is the twist or surprise in each image ? • They are also using line drawing (cartoon), photography, people as models and digital manipulation.

13. Art with a message: how do they do that? • Some images use a surprising contrast to catch people’s attention and make them think about what they are seeing, and what the message is. • However, the aim is not always to make you laugh. Some images use a more disturbing or unpleasant twist.

14. Wall Street banquet and Our bread Diego Rivera

15. Land of plenty Lucienne Bloch

16. Advertisement by Burger King, USA

17. Healthy eating campaign British Heart Foundation

18. Healthy eating campaign British Heart Foundation

19. Fetish The Chapman Brothers

20. Bombs away Rockwell Kent

21. Requiem for Biafra Ralph Steadman

22. The price of meat Ralph Steadman

23. If you are beaten … GET OUT (mock helpline) Barbara Kruger

24. Mother and child at Christmas Ralph Steadman

25. Art with a message: how do they do that? • Sometimes artists use devices such as masks, puppets, overheard conversations, captions and speech bubbles. • Often these tell us what is really going on in an ordinary situation, and what effect it is having on someone. We are not just given the straight message – the device helps us think about the importance of the message. • What difference do the masks make to the next image?

26. Doubles Olaf Breuning

27. Art with a message: how do they do that? • Some artists just say it straight: “This is terrible, it should not happen. Why does it have to happen?”

28. No life Sydney Holo

29. Art with a message: how do they do that? • Other artists want to say that people can make things better: “People can have their rights upheld – having a peaceful life and enough food for the family is possible for everyone!”

30. Harriet Tubman Aaron Douglas

31. Post-war monument Pnomh Penh city centre, Cambodia

32. From Sometimes, by Sheenagh Pugh Sometimes, things don’t go, after all, from bad to worse. Some years, muscadet faces down frost; green thrives; the crops don’t fail Sometimes a man aims high and all goes well.

33. “These streets are full of heroes.” Benjamin Zephaniah