🔍 Phase 2 - Encounter
🧩 Interactive
⏱ 2 minutes
Task 3 - What Do You See?
A diagnostic and formative checkpoint before deeper inquiry. Remember: visual interpretation is not absolute - multiple interpretations may be valid.
Step 1 - Identify the movement
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Mystery artwork
Swirling curvilinear brushstrokes in deep blue and gold, painted with energetic, almost turbulent motion - the sky itself seems to move.
A Impressionism
B Expressionism
C Surrealism
D Abstract art
Step 2 - Your response
No right answer · non-graded
In one sentence: what emotional or cognitive response does this work produce in you, and why?
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Bridge to Phase 3 - Investigation
"You have now demonstrated that visual language can be read and interpreted. You are ready to move from perception to investigation. Art is not only something you see - it is something you investigate."
What happens in Task 3
A 2-minute diagnostic checkpoint. Students identify the artistic movement of a mystery artwork from a 4-option multiple choice, receive immediate feedback and context, then describe their emotional response in one sentence.
🎯 Learning objectives
Assess initial perceptual recognition of artistic movements and reinforce the principle that art interpretation is subjective, constructed, and multi-valid.
♿ SEN Adaptations
- Audio description of the artwork available before answering
- Voice input accepted for the emotional response
- Extended time (+30 seconds per question)
🖨️ No-Tech Format
- Teacher shows a projected or printed image of the artwork
- Students raise hands to vote on the movement
- Teacher reveals movement, artist and date, read aloud
- Students write their response on an individual sheet; 2-3 read aloud