In QCA’s KS2 Art Unit, People in Action, children explore ways of conveying movement in their work, exploring dynamic activities like sport, dance, drama and music as a starting point for making work in two dimensions. They look at how the idea of movement is shown in different kinds of art, such as photography, illustrations, cartoons, etc. experimenting with different methods and techniques to show movement.
Representations of animal movement could also be explored, encouraging research into early experiments in cinematography, including an exploration of a range of optical toys designed to create the illusion of movement. Saint Saens would certainly have been familiar with a number of these. .
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Katharine Langley-Hamel and Kevin Hamel