The subject of this lesson is 'Sketching in a museum'
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You are going to read about a museum in London, the Victoria and Albert Museum. It is often referred to as the V&A.
The V&A is an important museum for art students in the UK. It claims to be ‘the world’s leading museum of art and design.’ So why are they in the news?
Read on!
This lesson contains 3 steps and an evaluation.
Work them through step by step.
Step
Activity
Introduction
Find out what you already know.
Step 1
Watching
Which signs can you see in a museum?
Step 2
Reading
Read about a museum. Choose the first sentence of each paragraph.
Step 3
Grammar
Future: will vs going to. Exercises and Grammar desks to study.
Step 4
Task
Rewrite the informal email of Sacha in 100 words. Tips to write a formal email.
Watching - signs
Sketching is a rough type of drawing. It is a form of visual art.
How important do you think sketching is for students?
Very important if you choose an art study – if you can’t draw, you can’t do art.
Important – it helps discover the best ideas.
Maybe it helps to demonstrate an idea better than in words.
Important - it can help us learn to write and think creatively and develops hand-eye coordination.
No idea! I don't think it's very important.
Sketches
A sketch may serve a number of purposes.
Most visual artists use the sketch as a method of recording or working out ideas.
Sketches drawn can also help authorities find or identify wanted people (composite sketches).
Street artists in popular tourist areas sketch portraits within minutes.
In step 2 you’re going to read an article about the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A).
What activities/objects are generally not allowed in a museum? Watch the signs.
Maybe these signs were also first sketched?
De onderstaande antwoorden moet je zelf nakijken; vergelijk jouw antwoorden met de goede
antwoorden, en geef aan in welke mate jouw antwoorden correct zijn.
Reading
You’re going to read an article about the V&A. Some sentences are missing.
Read the sentences. The sentences must be placed in the article.
A But photography’s not the only no-no in this lineup of lingerie.
B Stealthily photographing someone’s knickers might normally get you arrested.
C The V&A has been quick to point out that sketching is still welcomed in the rest of the museum.
D But it transpires that the rule, has nothing to do with protecting intellectual property.
E There is even a section on the museum’s website underlining the virtues of sketching.
F The long, snaking queues outside the museum from 6am every morning do make it clear why the V&A wants to speed up the flow.
Now read the article.
1. [.....] But now everyone’s at it in the V&A. A ban on photography in the museum’s new exhibition, Undressed: A Brief History of Underwear, means the gallery is full of people furtively trying to snap pictures of pants when the guards aren’t looking. Sneaky museum Instagramming never felt so naughty.
2. [.....] If you thought you could get away with a quick sketch of that Victorian whalebone corset or the butt-lifting boxers, think again: the museum has introduced a ban on drawing too. When I tweeted a picture on Thursday of the officious sign that stands at the entrance to the gallery, declaring “No photography or sketching”, it was met with collective grasps of incredulity. “Is this a late April Fools?” asked one. “How has any artist learned from the past other than through study and facsimile?” Another responded: “No memorising anything you see. Approved memories can be purchased in the gift shop.”
3. [.....] A drawing, however realistically executed with the finest charcoal pencil, does not constitute a breach of copyright. Instead, according to a V&A spokesperson, it is to do with preventing congestion and the strict loan agreements the museum signs for each new exhibition. Allowing students to stand in front of exhibits for hours on end, as they lovingly craft an image of that 1950s Playtex rubber girdle in their sketchbooks, just doesn’t allow the conveyor belt of visitors to flow fast enough. So what next? A ban on wheelchairs and prams because they take up too much space too?
4. [.....] But a rule banning sketching goes entirely against everything the institution has ever stood for. The studious reproduction of museum exhibits has long been a fundamental part of art education – a means of honing drawing skills and offering deeper ways of looking. A visit to the sprawling Victorian repository isn’t complete without clattering into a skinny-jeaned art student poring over their sketchbook. It is what the V&A has always been about.
5. [.....] “Drawing in a sketchbook,” wrote the architect, Le Corbisier , “teaches first to look, and then to observe and finally perhaps to discover … and it is then that inspiration might come. “It is particularly untimely for the museum to have introduced the diktat when it is about to unveil an exhibition devoted to the act of copying at the Venice Architecture Biennale. A World of Fragile Parts promises to explore the role of copies as a tool for preservation and to “question the relationship between the copy and the original in a society that privileges authenticity”. Tricky to stage in gallery that forbids copying.
6.[.....] The rule only applies to temporary exhibitions, but it still jars with the avowedly accessible ambitions for its new East End outpost.
Do the exercise.
Step 3 - Grammar
Grammar
Let’s look at the future will vs going to.
De onderstaande antwoorden moet je zelf nakijken; vergelijk jouw antwoorden met de goede
antwoorden, en geef aan in welke mate jouw antwoorden correct zijn.
De onderstaande antwoorden moet je zelf nakijken; vergelijk jouw antwoorden met de goede
antwoorden, en geef aan in welke mate jouw antwoorden correct zijn.
De onderstaande antwoorden moet je zelf nakijken; vergelijk jouw antwoorden met de goede
antwoorden, en geef aan in welke mate jouw antwoorden correct zijn.
Task
Your friend Sasha is an art student. She wants to sketch at the V&A.
She’s written a first draft of an email and has asked you for help.
Look at Sasha’s email asking for permission. List all the things that are wrong.
To: v.partridge@vanda.co.uk
From: sasha.price@myself.nl
Subject: Hello!
Hiya Mr Partridge!
I love your museum and I really like the exhibition ‘Colours’ that is on at the moment.
I saw your no sketching sign and I was really disappointed.
I’m studying art at school and I was wondering if you could give me permission to sketch one of the paintings.
It’d be really good for my final year project.
If you could reply soon, that’d be good.
Begin Dear Sir/Madam, or with the name of the person e.g. Dear Victor Partridge.
Choose a suitable subject for the email. (not Hello!)
Use phrases like I was wondering/would it be possible/it would be really helpful if
Be clear about what you are asking permission for and why.
If you want a reply, use ‘I look forward to hearing from you’.
Sign off with Best wishes/Kind regards/Yours faithfully/Yours sincerely
If you know the name of the person e.g. Dear Mr Partridge – use Yours sincerely/Best wishes/Kind regards.
If you don’t know the name e.g. Dear Sir/Madam – use Yours faithfully.
Copy and paste the text of Sasha's email.
Rewrite the email and use no more than 100 words.
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Deze les valt onder de arrangeerbare leerlijn van de Stercollectie voor Engels voor havo, leerjaar 4 en 5. Dit is thema 'Art'. Het onderwerp van deze les is:
Sketching in a museum. De les gaat over schetsen, 'signs' in een museum d
en over het Victoria and Albert Museum. De grammaticaopdracht behandelt 'future going to and will'.
Leerniveau
HAVO 4;
HAVO 5;
Leerinhoud en doelen
Engels;
Eindgebruiker
leerling/student
Moeilijkheidsgraad
gemiddeld
Studiebelasting
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Deze les valt onder de arrangeerbare leerlijn van de Stercollectie voor Engels voor havo, leerjaar 4 en 5. Dit is thema 'Art'. Het onderwerp van deze les is:
Sketching in a museum. De les gaat over schetsen, 'signs' in een museum d
en over het Victoria and Albert Museum. De grammaticaopdracht behandelt 'future going to and will'.
The subject of this lesson is 'Sketching in a museum'
Watching - signs
Reading
Grammar
Task
