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Belshazzar's Feast
Unidentified Artist (1742)
Goals:
1)
Students will be able to explain that narrative paintings tell a story.
2)
Students will be able to create a narrative painting.
Day
1:
1)
Display reproduction of painting:
Belshazzar’s Feast (above).
http://www.crizmac.com/natural.html
2)
Each student creates a poetry
journal to record observations
3)
Teacher introduces background
information (p.33 The Natural Palette)
4) Teacher leads discussion of
painting. (Teacher can use
Question sheet
for this discussion.)
5) Students observe & record “new
discoveries” in the journal.
Day
2: Time To Be Creative!
1) Teacher reviews purpose
of a narrative painting
2) Teacher introduces
activity:
Student will create a
narrative painting based on environmental themes like pollution
or
based on personal experiences.
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Students brainstorm in the poetry journal possible themes/personal
experiences they might want to illustrate in a narrative painting form.
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Students work on several thumbnail sketches.
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Students write the story behind each sketch on index cards.
Days
3 & 4: Invite the Art teacher to Collaborate.
1)
Transfer one sketch into a final
copy and paint (white drawing paper & paint needed)
2) Edit index cards
3)
Write a brief autobiography:
(name of student) As An
Artist
Day
5: Sharing Time!
1)
The students take time to observe
the different paintings
The students use the
As I See It
worksheet.
*Lesson
created by: Tere Wislous
*Ideas
are an extension from The Natural Palette by The Albany Institute of
History & Art
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