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(Updated on 18/03/2013)

 


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Vocabulary :

  • What is brandalism ?
    1. "The creeping corporatisation of schools, libraries and other public buildings, which are gradually being daubed with company logos and slogans.
    Coined by graffiti artist Banksy, and expounded on in his book "Wall and Piece"
    2. When luxury brands become debased, by their vulgar consumers.
    3. Counterculture and often illegal activities to promote a brand such as the act of placing unwanted advertisements and brand logos on property without proper permission."
    + Examples
    (urbandictionary.com)

    Brandalism: Street artists hijack billboards for 'subvertising campaign'
    "Street artists are targeting advertising billboards in a new movement nicknamed 'brandalism'."
    Click here to see the ‘subvertising campaign’ in pictures
    (independent.co.uk)

    Vandalism Versus Brandalism: the Rights to Public Space
    (scribd.com)


    Billboard by Robert Montgomery - UPDATED


    Brandalism artworks     - a slideshow
    "The Brandalism project saw 25 artists from 8 countries coming together for the biggest subvertising campaign in UK history.  
    Over five days a team of guerilla installers travelled to Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Bristol and London and put up artworks that seeks to confront the ad industry and take back our visual landscapes..."
    (brandalism.org.uk)

 

  • Multimedia Art Glossary
    (hbschool.com)
    "provides audio support for the text in addition to visual images"
    5 grades
    Recommended by Larry Ferlazzo

  • Art - Les mots s'affichent quand on passe la souris sur les images. - avec son
    (languageguide.org)

 

  • A Work of Art (How to understand a work of art) - analyse très complète! (library.thinkquest)

 

 

Listening :

  • New York Beyond Sight
    "NYC as you've never heard it before!...
    "Prominent New Yorkers describe their favorite works of art and culture, architecture, and city landmarks. Hear politicians, actors, artists, business
    and community leaders use Verbal Description to make New York's visual culture accessible to all—including people with visual impairments." 
    (nybeyondsight.org)
    from Art Beyond Sight (artbeyondsight.org)

  • Multimedia Art Glossary
    (hbschool.com)
    "provides audio support for the text in addition to visual images"
    5 grades
    Recommended by Larry Ferlazzo

     

  • Audio slideshow: Blake's 'Informal Panorama'

    "The artist Quentin Blake - best known for his illustrations in Roald Dahl's children's books - has unveiled a 70-foot-long work celebrating the 800th anniversary of Cambridge University.

    On display at Addenbrooke's Hospital - and in his own distinctive style - Quentin Blake's mural depicts famous alumni from centuries past.
    Take a guided tour with the artist himself."
    (BBC)

  • Art - Les mots s'affichent quand on passe la souris sur les images. - avec son
    (languageguide.org)

 

INTERACTIVE activities :

 

 

  • Jacob Lawrence - "Watch the slideshow and play the game..." = Hangman: Guess the letters in a hidden word or phrase.
    Created by Renée Maufroid. (Ac. Lille)

 




Matchstalk cats and dogs - Music video about the artist Lowry (YouTube) + LYRICS :
"He painted Salford's smokey tops 
On cardboard boxes from the shops 
And parts of ancoats where I used to play.."
(ntlworld.com)

 

 

 

 

  • Mary Cassatt - "Watch the video and play the game."
    Created by Renée Maufroid. (Ac. Lille)

     

    Mary Stevenson Cassatt (play /kəˈsæt/; May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker.
    She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists.
    Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children."
    (Wikipedia)

  • How to analyze iconographic documents
     "Une page spéciale pour aider mes élèves à analyser des tableaux de Norman Rockwell.
    Il y a d'abord un peu de méthodologie, ensuite, lorsque les élèves cliquent sur un tableau, ils sont redirigés vers une autre page qui leur donnera des indices pour aller au maximum dans leur analyse (j'ai utilisé Images Actives, outil développé par le CRDP de l'académie de Versailles)."
    Activités créées par Laurence Haquet (Ac. Rouen)
    (letshavefunwithenglish.com)

  • 16 couples in art.
    "Watch the video and enjoy these 16 famous paintings. Do you know any of them?
    Click on "play this game" and do the 2 pages of activities." 
    Created by Renée Maufroid. (Ac. Lille)

  • Tom Wesselmann's Collages
    "Tom Wesselman was an American artist. Here are 2 of his works. Click to enlarge them.
    Watch the video to understand how the artist worked, (The 2 ladies are creating their own work of art using Wesselmann's technique)
    then play the game."
    Created by Renée Maufroid. (Ac. Lille)

 

 

  • Go West, Young Artist. (alifetimeofcolor.com)
    "It's 1870, and explorers and artists are discovering the wonders of the American West.
    Travel westward and meet six landscape artists to learn the basics of landscape composition."

 

  • The Art of Crime Detection. (alifetimeofcolor.com)
    "You witness a crime, and the police ask you to help identify the culprit, using their new PDArtist tool.
    Learn how your left and right brain work and the best ways to use your brain as an artist.
    Can you create composite portraits that help identify the culprit?"

 

  • What were they doing?
    "Watch this mural carefully then play the 2 games."
    Created by Renée Maufroid (Ac. Lille)

    "In the 30s, The United States government, through the Works Progress Administration, commissioned artists across the country to paint murals on public buildings, such as post offices and libraries. This one can be seen in San Francisco" :

 

 

  • Interactives : Science - Language - History - Art
    (learner.org)

  • Edward Hopper
    "Look at the video and enjoy Hopper's Art...
    Now you can begin the activity. Look at the paintings from the slideshow and match the description of the painting with its name. Good luck!"
    Activity created by: Renée Maufroid



    See Edward Hopper - a slideshow

 

  • Norman Rockwell
    "Watch the video and look at Norman Rockwell's works. When you are through you will have to find the name of 11 paintings. You will be given either a short description or a little picture to help you find the painting. All of them are in the first 8 pages of the gallery.
    Good luck!"
    Activity created by: Renée Maufroid

 

  • Describing a Picture (Glen Canyon Dam by Norman Rockwell) -
    Gap-Fill Exercise by Barbara Dieu
    (the_english_dept.tripod.com)



  • The Art Zone - interactive art that you can make online (nga.gov)
    Collage Machine " Mobile " PixelFace " 3-D Twirler " Cubits " Diamonds " RiverRun " Paintbox

 

 

Activities TO PRINT :

 

 

  • 'How to describe a picture' à partir du document : a painting by Norman Rockwell.
    - une grille critériée d'aide à la rédaction et à l'évaluation
    Niveau : 4ème
    envoyée par Françoise Chapellier (Ac. de La Réunion)

 



PowerPoint Presentations :

 

 

 

 

Lesson plans :

  • The Louvre is most visited art gallery (March 31, 2013) - a lesson plan with AUDIO
    "The Louvre in Paris has topped a list of the world's most-visited art museums. The annual survey of galleries and attendance was taken by the ''Art Newspaper''."
    (breakingnewsenglish.com)

  • Histoire des Arts



    Norman Rockwell,
     'New Kids in the Neighbourhood'


    Steve Greenberg, 
    'Obama wins'

    "Dans le cadre de l'Histoire des Arts, mis en place en janvier pour nous, nous avons travaillé autour de deux 'objets',
    la peinture de Norman Rockwell, 'New Kids in the Neighbourhood' et le dessin de Greenberg, 'Obama wins'.
    Ce choix s'est 'imposé' à moi car je travaillais justement sur 'the Civil Rights movement' avec mes élèves (voir le manuel de 3è, unit 4,
    'je rends compte de l'évolution des droits dans le passé'), les élèves ont adhéré au projet.
    Les séances spécialement dédiées à la préparation de l'épreuve orale pour le Brevet se sont déroulées en français, langue de l'épreuve
    mais cela n'a posé aucun problème de repasser à l'anglais.
    L'occasion de revoir le film 'Mississippi Burning' et de redécouvrir certains tableaux de Rockwell (the Problem we all live with, Southern Justice, Gossips etc. ) et d'échanger un mail avec Greenberg qui nous a expliqué la technique employée pour son dessin. 

    Pour plus de documents, les collègues peuvent me joindre à cette adresse:
    fchapellier@yahoo.fr
    (Françoise Chapellier - Conakry, Guinée)

 

  • PROJET ARCIMBOLDO (Marie-Claire Renard - Belgique) - Ce projet n'est plus en ligne, mais peut donner des idées...

    Pendant l’année 2008-2009, 5 classes ont travaillé de concert sur le « projet langues » présenté à la journée Portes Ouvertes :
    les 1e Dif, les 1e R Ndls L 1, les 2 classes de 2e R Ndls L1 et les 3e R anglais L2.

    L’instigateur du projet : ARCIMBOLDO, peintre de la Renaissance italienne, principalement renommé pour ses figures maniéristes composées de fleurs, fruits, coquillages etc.

    Le but final du travail : la réalisation d’un mini-dictionnaire illustré reprenant tout un vocabulaire de base destiné à des débutants ...

 

  • WARHOL "POP ART" PORTRAITS (kinderart.com)
    Objectives:
    Students will gain an understanding of Andy Warhol's work and the origins of "Pop Art".
    Students will also learn techniques in the correct placement of facial features.





INTERACTIVE games :

 

 

  • Warhol's World - interactive game about his life
    (qag.qld.gov.au)

  • A. Pintura: Art Detective

    Teacher Resources
    "A. Pintura: Art Detective is an online game about art history and art composition.
    In the game, you play a 1940's noir detective with a degree in art history.
    A distraught woman asks you to identify the artist who made a painting she found in her grandfather's attic.
    To do so, you must examine paintings by famous artists from Gauguin to Van Gogh.
    Each example highlights an art concept such as composition, style or subject.
    The story concludes with an appropriate noirish twist, as the woman's true identity and motives become apparent..."

  • Mr. Picassohead - Créer une tête "à la Picasso" (mrpicassohead.com)
    - View Gallery

 

 

Conversation questions :

  • Art (iteslj.org)

 

 

Webquests :

 

  • The Art Gallery - a webquest created by Renée Maufroid (quia.com)
    "You are going to visit a gallery with beautiful and famous pictures...
    Using the Internet links below, find the answers to the questions."
  • The Pre-Raphaelites (Ac. Nancy-Metz)
    une webquest préparée par Francis HENNE pour 4ème europe
    Objectifs : civilisation, recherche sur la période victorienne.


     

Songs :

 

  • 70 million by Hold your horses
    "An entertaining and cheeky music video for 70 Million, hit song by Franco-American band, Hold Your Horses!, offers a wink at art history as band members playfully reconstruct famous paintings in an off the wall lyrical interpretation all their own."
    (YouTube)
    + Compare with some of the paintings (flavorwire.com)
    + The complete list of the famous paintings. (rtfm.es)
    + the LYRICS
    "And you were white as snow; I was white as a sheet...
    And 70 million should be in the know
    And 70 million don't go out at all
    And 70 million wouldn't walk this street
    And 70 million would run to a hole
    And 70 million would be wrong wrong wrong
    And 70 million never see it at all
    And 70 million haven't tasted snow"
    (sweetslyrics.com)



    Hold your horses - the expression
    "sometimes said as "Hold the horses", is a common idiom to mean "hold on" or wait...
    The saying is typically used when someone is rushing in to something.
    It is often combined with linked idioms such as, cool your jets, or look before you leap..."
    (Wikipedia)

 

  • Vincent (Starry, Starry Night) - sung by Don McLean :
    "Starry, starry night.
    Paint your palette blue and grey,
    Look out on a summer's day,
    With eyes that know the darkness in my soul.
    Shadows on the hills,
    Sketch the trees and the daffodils,
    Catch the breeze and the winter chills,
    In colors on the snowy linen land..."

    - with the VIDEO (YouTube)
    "A slideshow of Vincent Van Gogh's work set to the song "Vincent" by Don McLean."



  • Heavy On My Heart by Anastacia :
    "If I could paint a picture of this melody
    It would be a violin without its strings
    And the canvas in my mind
    Sings the songs I left behind
    Like pretty flowers and a sunset"

 

Videos :

 

 

 

  • Still Life - Shaun the Sheep
    "A children's series from Aardman Animations and a former character in Wallace and Gromit."
    (YouTube)

 

  • Women in art
    500 years of female portraits in Western art condensed in a three minute morphing video.
    (YouTube)

 

 

  • George Bush Art by Phil Hansen - with a video
    "This picture of President George W. Bush was made with the names of Coalition soldiers that died in the Iraq war."

 

 

Cartoons :

 

 

Literature :