A new Gallery of Honour (lesson 4 - PL)

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A New Gallery of Honour (lesson 4)

Lesson schedule

- Video about famous artworks

- Doing your own research about famous artworks

- Deciding the theme of the artworks and why they fit this theme

00:48

What makes the Mona Lisa’s smile so mysterious and intriguing to art historians and viewers?

01:22

How did Leonardo da Vinci use perspective and composition to guide the viewer’s eye in The Last Supper?

Research assignment

Choose one of the artworks from the video. Find out the theme of the artworks and come up with 3 arguments why it fits this theme.

Artworks from the video you can choose from:

- Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci

- The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci

- The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo

- Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh

- The Scream by Edvard Munch

- The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali

- The Girl with the Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer

- The Night Watch by Rembrandt

- Self-portrait without Beard by Vincent van Gogh

- Guernica by Pablo Picassso

01:45

Why are the hands of God and Adam almost touching in The Creation of Adam?

02:16

How did Vincent van Gogh’s feelings affect the way he painted Starry Night?

02:34

What feelings do people think Edvard Munch wanted to show in The Scream?

03:01

How does The Persistence of Memory make us think about time in a different way?

03:25

Why do people call Girl with a Pearl Earring the “Mona Lisa of the North”?

03:46

What is special about Rembrandt’s The Night Watch compared to other group paintings?

04:40

How does Guernica show the pain and destruction of war?

04:18

Why is Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait Without Beard important?

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