7. Lesson (90min) - Art History Feuds - storytelling
Warm-up activity:
Work in groups and answer these questions: What and why do people feud about? What would artists feud about?
Main part:
Work in groups and find information about a feud given on a card. Write down basic information about the situation. Who? When? What? Where? How (did it happen? Long did it
take? Did it end?)
MOST FAMOUS ARTISTS FEUD
Leonardo da Vinci
and Michelangelo
Picasso and
Matisse
Van Gogh and
Gauguin
Caravaggio and
Giovanni
Pollock and de Kooning
Ingres and
Delacroix
After finding out the information about the feud create and outline for 3 to 6 panels for comics. Use Pixton to create the comics in groups. Create your own characters if not provided in the app.
Closing:
Presentation of comics of each group and explaining the background story.
i.e. The love and hate relationship of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.
Diego and Frida met in the year 1928 and next year they married. 9 years later they both went to New York because of Frida´s first exhibition. Two years later they divorced because of their infidelity from both Frida and Diego. Later that year they realized they love each other despite all that has happened and they decided to remarry in 1940.
SOURCES:
VEGARA, M., I., Sánchez, 2016. Frida Kahlo. London: Frances Lincoln. ISBN: 9781847807700.
KATZ, Neil, 2010. Frida Kahlo Biography: Medical Mystery, Controversial Death. [online] cbsnews.com [Cit. 22.12.2023]. Retrieved from: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/frida-kahlo-biography-medical-mystery-controversial-death/