Foundation
In this video, students are invited to respond to a painting by Indian Gond artist, Venkat Raman Singh Shyam. This resource presents an opportunity to explore the way artists like Venkat Shyam use colour to express moods in their artwork and evoke emotional responses for those that view them. Taking inspiration from Shyam’s work, it also encourages students to consider how simple shapes, lines and marks can be manipulated and repeated to create pattern and detail. In addition, students are invited to reflect on what it means to be part of a community, and how everyone can contribute to a functioning and supportive community of friends, peers or other social groups.
To turn on captions for this video, click on the ‘CC/Subtitles’ icon located at the bottom right of the video and select ‘English CC’.
The accompanying PDF below offers support for teachers and parents who are empowering young people to actively engage with Shyam’s The World of the Gonds, explore ideas and establish connections to their own lives and to each other.
Learning Objectives
- Identify a range of colours and make choices when using these in their own work.
- Name and visually represent members of their own communities.
- Recognise and describe patterns and repetitive motifs; and consider ways of using them in their own work.
Links to the Victorian Curriculum
Visual Arts
- Respond to visual artworks and consider where and why people make visual artworks (VCAVAR020)
- Explore ideas, experiences, observations and imagination to create visual artworks (VCAVAE017)
Personal and Social Capability
- Identify a range of groups to which they, their family and members of their class belong (VCPSCSO004)