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.
                     The love and hate relationship of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.
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/