Trainingsvideo Van Gogh Harvest

• Kunst
• Lower Secondary (Key Stage 3)

Van Gogh Museum

SHOT GUNDY: FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO AREN’T YET FAMILIAR WITH THE VAN GOGH MUSEUM: IT’S A MUSEUM DEDICATED TO THE ARTIST VINCENT VAN GOGH, LOCATED IN AMSTERDAM IN THE NETHERLANDS AND IT HOUSES THE WORLD’S LARGEST COLLECTION OF WORKS AND LETTERS BY VINCENT VAN GOGH.

‘I think there would be children who became painters if only they saw good things’

VOICE-OVER:  I THINK THERE WOULD BE CHILDREN WHO BECAME PAINTERS IF ONLY THEY SAW GOOD THINGS.

THIS IS A QUOTE FROM A LETTER THAT VINCENT VAN GOGH WROTE TO HIS BROTHER THEO, DATED ON OR AROUND FRIDAY, 20 SEPTEMBER 1889. IT SHOWS THAT THE ARTIST ALREADY RECOGNISED THE IMPORTANCE OF BRINGING CHILDREN INTO CONTACT WITH ART.

Program objectives

• Empower childrens self confidence and creativity.
• Pupils get to know the work and live of Vincent van Gogh.
• 21st century skills.

Training objectives

• Learn about the lessons 
• Get to know LessonUp
• Experience what your students will experience

VOICE-OVER: 

AND OF COURSE, THIS MISSION IS CONNECTED TO THE OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAM, WHICH ARE:

· TO EMPOWER CHILDREN WITH SELF-CONFIDENCE AND CREATIVITY.

· TO ALLOW STUDENTS TO GET TO KNOW THE WORK AND LIFE OF VINCENT VAN GOGH.

· TO TEACH 21ST-CENTURY SKILLS:

O CRITICAL THINKING

O CREATIVITY

O COLLABORATION

O COMMUNICATION

O INFORMATION LITERACY

O MEDIA LITERACY

O TECHNOLOGY LITERACY

O FLEXIBILITY

O LEADERSHIP

O INITIATIVE

O PRODUCTIVITY

O SOCIAL SKILLS

· THE OBJECTIVES FOR THIS TRAINING ARE THEREFORE:

· TO LEARN ABOUT THE LESSONS

· TO FAMILIARIZE YOURSELF WITH LESSONUP (THE ONLINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT)

· TO EXPERIENCE WHAT YOUR STUDENTS WILL EXPERIENCE, BY TRYING OUT THE CREATIVE ASSIGNMENTS

SHOT: GUNDY en dan VIDEORECORDING: 

YOU WILL FIND LINKS TO THE 5 LESSONS IN THE INSTRUCTION EMAIL. JUST CLICK ON THE LINK TO SEE THE LESSON OVERVIEW, INCLUDING THE MANUAL AND ASSIGNMENT SHEETS.

Missie

The Van Gogh Museum inspires a diverse audience with the life and work of Vincent van Gogh and his time. 

Mission

VOICE-OVER: 

THE VAN GOGH MUSEUM INSPIRES A DIVERSE AUDIENCE WITH THE LIFE AND WORK OF VINCENT VAN GOGH AND HIS TIME

WE THINK IT IS A LOVELY QUOTE TO ILLUSTRATE THE MUSEUM’S MISSION, WHICH IS TO INSPIRE A DIVERSE AUDIENCE THROUGH THE LIFE AND WORK OF VINCENT VAN GOGH.

SHOT: VIDEORECORDING: 

IN THE LESSON OVERVIEW, YOU CAN IMMEDIATELY SEE WHAT THE LESSON INVOLVES, HOW LONG IT LASTS, WHAT TEACHING METHODS ARE AVAILABLE AND WHAT THE LEARNING OBJECTIVES ARE.

SIMPLY OPEN THE LESSON

THINK ABOUT WHETHER YOU WANT THE STUDENTS TO USE THEIR MOBILE PHONES OR TABLETS AND CLICK 'ON DEVICES IN THE CLASSROOM' OR NOT.

SHOT: VIDEORECORDING: toon de optie voor de gele notities én het klikken op de pijlen laten zien.

VOICE-OVER: 

EVERY SLIDE HAS A YELLOW NOTE WITH TEACHING INSTRUCTIONS, SUCH AS AN EXPLANATION OF THE TEACHING METHODS USED OR BACKGROUND INFORMATION ABOUT VINCENT VAN GOGH.

MOVE FORWARDS OR BACKWARDS THROUGH THE LESSONS BY CLICKING ON THE ARROWS.

IN EACH LESSON YOU WILL FIND DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES.

Are you like Vincent?

I don’t know what I want to be yet

1

I’m stubborn

2

I like nature

3

I find it difficult to stick to rules 

4

I work hard / don’t give up easily 

5

I fall in love very easily

6

I like to do things in a new or different way 

7

One day I’m happy and full of energy, and the next I’m tired and feeling down 

8

I want to mean something (to others/the world) 

9

I make my own choices, even if they are not popular 

10

SHOT: VIDEORECORDING: voorbeeld test (vragen open klikken/ (Sjoukje in beeld als ze de vragen stelt?) en quiz

IN THE FIRST LESSON, FOR EXAMPLE, YOU CAN DO A PERSONALITY TEST ‘HOW ALIKE ARE YOU AND VINCENT?’. EVERY TIME YOU ANSWER ‘YES’, YOU RECEIVE A POINT.

1. I don’t know what I want to be yet

2. I’m stubborn

3. I like nature

4. I find it difficult to stick to rules

5. I work hard / don’t give up easily

6. I fall in love very easily

7. I like to do things in a new or different way

8. One day I’m happy and full of energy, and the next I’m tired and feeling down

9. I want to mean something (to others/the world)

10. I make my own choices, even if they are not popular

HOW MANY POINTS DID YOU GET? I HAD ..

True of false?

WHAT DO YOUR STUDENTS ALREADY KNOW ABOUT VINCENT VAN GOGH? YOU CAN FIND IT OUT DURING THE INTERACTIVE QUIZ

True of false?
Statement 1:

1. Vincent was already producing amazing paintings when he was 12
2. Vincent had to practise a lot to become a good painter

BY THE WAY, THE ANSWER IS B. 

'I keep on making what I can't do yet in order to learn to be able to do it.'

Vincent wrote:

YOU ALSO CAN:

- READ QUOTES BY VINCENT

- WRITE A POEM

This painting feels like….
This painting smells like…
This painting tastes like….
This painting sounds like….
This painting looks like….

Assignment: you are going to use the painting to write a poem. The first step is to copy and complete the following phrases:

This painting feels like….
This painting smells like…
This painting tastes like….
This painting sounds like….
This painting looks like….

Make sure the sentences vary in length: long, short or even just one additional word.

Examples for teachers:
This painting smells like the end of summer
This painting feels like grass tickling my feet and sun on my cheeks
This painting tastes like French stew
This painting sounds like cicadas and footsteps
This painting looks like holiday

- DO A MEDITATION

- LISSEN TO SOUNDSCAPES

Artist Etel Adnan

Title Untitled

Year 2014

Material acryl on canvas, 38 x 46 cm

Collection Collection Jean Frémon. © The Estate of Etel Adnan. Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co., Paris/New York

- MAKE COMPARISONS WITH OTHER PAINTINGS

slaapkamer in het museum

Label

Vincent van Gogh 1853 - 1890 

The Harvest, 1888

oil on canvas

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

You can almost feel the dryness and heat in this painting of the flat landscape around Arles in the south of France. Van Gogh combined the azure blue of the sky with yellow and green tones for the land to capture the atmosphere of a summer’s day. He worked in the wheatfields for days at a time under the burning sun. This was an immensely productive period, in which he completed ten paintings and five drawings in just over a week, until a heavy storm brought the harvest season to an end.
Van Gogh wanted to show peasant life and work on the land – a recurring theme in his art – and painted several stages of the harvest. We see a half mowed wheatfield, ladders and several carts. A reaper works in the background, which is why he titled the work La moisson or 'The Harvest'. Van Gogh considered it one of his most successful paintings, writing to his brother Theo that the ‘canvas absolutely kills all the rest’.

- WATCH VIDEOS

Artist: Vincent van Gogh

Title: Wheatfield

Date: june 1888

Collection: Collection P. and N. de Boer Foundation, Amsterdam

AND IN THE SECOND LESSON YOU CAN LOOK CLOSELY AT THE SPECIFIC LOCATION WHERE VINCENT WORKED.

AND THERE IS A LOT MORE TO DISCOVER.

Artist: Vincent van Gogh

Title: La Crau with Peach Trees in Blossom

Date: April 1889

Collection: Courtauld Gallery, London

EVERY LESSON INCLUDES A CREATIVE ASSIGNMENT, 

Perspective

What do you want to say about yourself? What perspective would be best for that? Try out extremes, with low and high vantage points, just like AiRich.

Object

Strike a pose that expresses your relationship with the object. Show that it’s part of you.

WHICH IS PERSONAL AND STUDENT FOCUSED AND RELATED TO THE HARVEST. 

Artist: Etel Adnan

Title: Journey to Mount Tamalpais (Rihla ilâ Jabal Tamalpais)

Year: 2008

Material: Leporello, watercolour and Indian ink on Japanse paper, 54 pages, open 30 × 567 cm, closed 30 × 10.5 cm

Collection: The Estate of Etel Adnan. Museé de l’Institut du monde arabe, Paris (donation of Claude and France Lemand)

IN THIS VIDEO WE WILL DEMONSTRATE ONE OF THEM: MAKING A ACCORDION BOOK (LESSON 4).

THE CHILDREN ARE GOING TO MAKE A VERY SPECIAL THING INSPIRED BY THE HARVEST. IT’S CALLED AN ACCORDION BOOK, OR CONCERTINA BOOK, OR (THE FANCY NAME) A ‘LEPORELLO’. IT’S A LONG, STRETCHED OUT ARTWORK IN A VERY UNUSUAL FORM. YOU CAN DISPLAY THEM EITHER FLAT OR STANDING THEM UP. THEY ARE LIKE PAINTINGS AND BOOKS OR LETTERS AT THE SAME TIME.

THESE ACCORDION BOOKS WERE MADE BY ARTIST ETEL ADNAN. SHE LIVED FROM 1925 TO 2021, SO MUCH LATER THAN VINCENT. ETEL ADNAN’S ACCORDION BOOKS OFTEN COMBINE TEXT (ARABIC) WITH AREAS OF COLOUR, SKETCHED LINES OR ABSTRACT FORMS.

Artist Etel Adnan

Title Untitled

Year 2014

Material acryl on canvas, 38 x 46 cm

Collection Collection Jean Frémon. © The Estate of Etel Adnan. Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co., Paris/New York

ETEL ADNAN ALSO MADE COLOURFUL LANDSCAPES, JUST LIKE VINCENT, BUT HERS ARE MADE UP OF FLAT AREAS OF COLOUR. SO VINCENT AND ETEL BOTH LOVED TO PAINT LANDSCAPES IN BRIGHT COLOURS.

Letter: 615
From: Vincent van Gogh
To: Theo van Gogh
Date: Arles, Monday, 28 May 1888

THE STUDENTS WILL USE THESE MATERIALS: PAPER, PEN, PENCILS, DIFFERENT COLOURS OF PAINT AND WATER.

WE’RE GOING TO BUILD THE BOOK UP IN LAYERS.

FOR THE FIRST LAYER, MADE USING WATERCOLOUR, WE’RE GOING TO LOOK FOR FLAT AREAS OF COLOUR IN THE HARVEST. 

MAKE A SQUARE WITH YOUR HANDS, AS A FRAME THAT YOU CAN LOOK THROUGH. COME AND LOOK AT THE HARVEST IN GROUPS. CLOSE YOUR EYES A BIT SO THAT YOU ONLY SEE THE COLOURS, NOT THE DETAILS, AND DECIDE WHICH COMBINATIONS OF COLOURS AND SHAPES YOU LIKE. USE WATERCOLOURS TO PAINT A NUMBER OF AREAS OF COLOUR IN YOUR ACCORDION BOOK. DON’T USE TOO MUCH WATER, SO THAT IT WILL DRY QUICKLY. THE CHILDREN DON’T NEED TO PAINT ANYTHING PARTICULAR; IT DOESN’T HAVE TO REPRESENT ANYTHING.

NOW DRAW TWO SQUARES ANYWHERE YOU LIKE IN YOUR BOOK, AND A LARGER SQUARE OR RECTANGLE SOMEWHERE ELSE. JUST A THIN OUTLINE WILL BE ENOUGH.

WE’RE GOING TO MAKE SMALL DRAWINGS OR SKETCHES IN THESE BOXES IN A MOMENT.

LET THE CHILDREN TAKE OUT THE POEM THEY WROTE IN LESSON 1. LET THEM WRITE IT IN THEIR ACCORDION BOOK. THEY CAN REPEAT, CHANGE OR ADD PHRASES IF THEY WANT TO. THEY CAN ALSO LOOK UP AND WRITE OUT WORDS IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE OR ALPHABET. VINCENT WAS VERY INSPIRED BY JAPANESE CHARACTERS, AND SOMETIMES ADDED THEM TO HIS PAINTINGS. ETEL HAD HER POEMS FOR HER ACCORDION BOOKS TRANSLATED INTO ARABIC FOR POLITICAL REASONS. SO BOTH OF THEM WERE INSPIRED BY OTHER ALPHABETS. JUST WRITE OVER THE COLOURS, BUT AVOID THE BOXES YOU DREW.

Artist: Vincent van Gogh

Date: June 1888

Title: The Harvest

Material: Watercolour

Collection: private collection

VINCENT ALSO MADE A PEN AND INK DRAWING OF THE HARVEST. IN THIS VERSION YOU CAN SEE THAT HE USED LOTS OF DOTS AND LINES TO DRAW ALL THE DIFFERENT LITTLE FIELDS AND CROPS. MAKE A SQUARE WITH YOUR HANDS AGAIN AND COME UP TO THE SMARTBOARD. CHOOSE TWO BITS OF THE DRAWING AND TRY TO DRAW WHAT YOU SEE IN THE TWO SQUARES IN YOUR ACCORDION BOOK.

YOU’VE THE CHILDREN JUST GOT THE BIG RECTANGLE LEFT. LET THEM LOOK BACK AT ALL THE SKETCHES THEY HAVE MADE DURING THESE LESSONS. THE FARMERS IN DIFFERENT POSES, THE SKETCH THAT GOES WITH THE SOUNDSCAPE, THE OBJECT FROM DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES. WHICH ONE DO THEY THINK DESERVES TO BE IMPROVED ON IN THE BIG BOX? DO THAT NOW.

WHAT DOES THE ACCORDION BOOK NEED NOW TO BRING IT ALL TOGETHER? DECIDE FOR YOURSELF, AND ADD THE FINISHING TOUCHES. FOR INSPIRATION YOU CAN LOOK AT THE WORK YOU’VE ALREADY DONE, OR ADD SOME MORE PATTERNS WITH DOTS AND LINES.

PLACE OR HANG THE LEPORELLO’s NEXT TO EACH OTHER AND DISCUSS THEM. YOU MIGHT LIKE TO USE THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

• ARE THERE ANY ACCORDION BOOKS WHERE YOU CAN EASILY TELL WHO MADE IT?

• WHICH ONES HAVE INTERESTING COLOURS OR DETAILS?

• DID YOU ENJOY MAKING THE BOOK?

• NB: THERE ARE NO RIGHT OR WRONG ANSWERS HERE.

HOPEFULLY I HAVE MANAGED TO GIVE YOU AN INSPIRING IDEA OF THE CONTENT AND FORM OF THE PROGRAMME. I’D LIKE TO END WITH AN IMPRESSION OF A CLASS THAT HAS COMPLETED A SIMILAR PROGRAMME ABOUT THE BEDROOM.

THANK YOU KINDLY FOR YOUR ATTENTION AND HAVE FUN!

Thank you!