Ein Kunstprojekt mit deutschen und französischen Schülerinnen und Schülern im Differenzierungskurs Englisch
Every year Goetheschule Essen offers an optional course for students in Year 8 and 9, who wish to study Geography, History and Politics in English. In 2017 the students in Ms Heup’s course chose “Art History” as a topic for the last half of the summer term and invited a group from Collège Louis Pergaud in Dozulé (France) to work with them at the Folkwang Museum. The groups had got to know each other through a European eTwinning project and very much looked forward to an English-French-German day on April 27th 2017 in Essen.
Imitieren, ergänzen, interpretieren: Kunst neu denken
After an introductory session at school, 21 German and 25 French students arrived at the museum at eleven in the morning. They split into small mixed groups and soon had their mobiles ready to start their project. The task was to create photos which imitate, complement or reinterpret paintings in the permanent exhibition. Here is a small selection of the creative work, which the students shared after lunch:
Die Dauerausstellung im Folkwang-Museum
Imitation
Faithful imitation requires to watch out carefully for what might otherwise easily escape one’s notice. A good example is the photo the students took in front of Wilhelm Tübner’s Portrait of a Lady. Attention has not only been paid to posture, gesture and facial expression, but also to a tiny little detail. Art teacher Dagmar Bieniek spotted it right away. Have you seen it as well? Look at the lady’s white collar. Have you realized that the student’s white ribbon underlines the resemblance?
