Communicative Art Activities

Art that teaches vocabulary and structure Communicative mode: Interpretive

Use a piece of art to teach or reinforce grammar points or structural elements.

Examples- prepositions, direct and indirect object pronouns, partitive, possessives, demonstratives, clothing, nature, physical characteristics, family, parts of body Art dialogues Communicative mode: Interpersonal, Presentational

Students imagine what the people in a work of art are saying to each other by creating and performing the conversation. A fun variation is to have a group of art pieces to choose from and after students perform their conversations, students guess which piece of art was the focus Similarities and Differences Communicative mode: Interpretive

Students compare and contrast two similar pieces of art using a Venn diagram. Advanced classes can compare the time in history and the artist’s background Describing art Communicative mode: Interpretive, Presentational

Students write descriptions of selected pieces of artwork. Descriptions may be used in a guessing game format, possibly in a gallery walk setting. A fun alternative is to have students write descriptions of art stickers applied to index cards

Twenty Questions Communicative mode: Interpretive, Interpersonal

Students choose one work of art out of a group and their partners ask yes or no questions to figure out which piece their partner chose What happened before and after? Communicative mode: Interpretive, Presentational Students imagine what happened before and after the scene in a piece of artwork Interview with a person in a piece of art Communicative mode: Interpretive, Interpersonal

Students take on the role of interviewer and that of the person in the work of art. Students who take on the persona of the person in the artwork can research the person’s actual life or invent the details about the person Interview with the Artist Communicative mode: Interpersonal, Interpretive

Students play the roles of interviewer and artist after having done research about an artist’s life Reporter on the scene Communicative mode: Presentational

Students imagine they are a news reporter from the scene depicted in the piece of art Communicating Feelings Through Art Communicative mode: Interpretive, Interpersonal

Students use emotion vocabulary and expressions to discuss how a work of art makes them feel. Particularly good activity for using subjunctive expressions. A variation of this activity would be to pair it with music that relates to the artwork, artist, or historic era.

Trying out a Technique Communicative mode: Interpretive, Presentation

Students attempt to replicate the style or technique of an artist (ex. Matisse paper cut outs, Seurat pointillism) and then reflect on their experiences. The artist’s background information can be researched as well to further Communicative Art Activities

Leslie Grahn World Language Resource Teacher, HCPSS Friday, March 31, 2006 Baltimore Museum of Art Activity Ideas Great Fine Art Sites Sample Art Projects and Presentation Rubrics 1. Artcyclopedia- guide to great art on the Internet

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/

2. Mr. Picassohead

http://www.mrpicassohead.com/

3. Art-iculation- learning to look at art www.brigantine.atlnet.org/GigapaletteGALLERY/websites/ARTic ulationFinal/MainPages/About%20This%20Site.htm

4. National Gallery of Art- Classroom for Teachers and Students

www.nga.gov/education/classroom/

5. All Posters. Com

www.allposters.com

6. Art.Com

www.art.com

7. Art & Artist

www.art-and-artist.co.uk

8. D’Art

dart.fine-art.com 9. Enchanted Learning Coloring Pages

www.enchantedlearning.com/artists/coloring /

10. French paintings

palettesofvision.com

11. Hispanic art

globegate.utm.edu

12. Olga’s Galllery- Online Art Museum

www.abcgallery.com

13. Spanish Arts

www.spanisharts.com

14. Mona Lisa Mania

www.monalisamania.com

15. Masterpieces to Color

www.scribbleskidsart.com/generic.html?pid=137

16. Metropolitan Museum of Art Educational Resources

www.metmuseum.org/education/index.asp? HomePageLink=education_l

17. Dover Books- Color Your Own series www.doverpublications.com

18. Another great art site (lots of pop ups though)

http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/index.html