Famous paintings – The Arnolfini portrait - ESL adult mini unit in PowerPoint

This is an ESL adult conversation mini unit in editable PPT format with worksheets and teacher’s notes.

RESOURCE TYPE

✓ 2 PowerPoint presentations

✓Teacher’s notes

✓worksheets

✓Poem analysis

famous paintings - Lesson description

You don’t need to be an Art enthusiast to discuss art. Paintings teach us about things like culture, history, politics, relationships, and language.

Discussing a famous painting with ESL students is an opportunity to teach so many different topics in one go - proverbs, history, the cultural origin of things, names of materials and objects, and even “cultural jokes”, all that while enjoying some of the most beautiful masterpieces in art history.

In this series of lessons, I’ve chosen paintings that are wrapped in mysterious theories and paintings that provoke debate and controversy.

Every lesson includes:

-A short history of the artist.

- Information and history of the painting

-How to conduct the conversation by topics (the subject, the composition, the location, the background, the colors, etc.)

-Guiding questions (and answers) for the students.

-Standard and surprising theories about the painting through the course of history.

-Vocabulary

The Arnolfini Portrait

The Arnolfini Portrait is a completely unique painting, there is nothing else like it that has survived in 15th-century art.

Throughout the centuries, this painting triggered many detective-like attempts because there are so many symbolic objects in it. It has been dissected and analyzed by countless art critics, and in the process, managed to become even more mysterious.

This is a three-hour mini unit that includes two PowerPoints accompanied by student worksheets and teacher’s notes.

*I created this lesson for adult ESL conversation classes of intermediate and advanced levels, but it is also a great lesson for high school students studying art history.

Part one –

In this part, we look at the painter Van Eyck, his history, and his reputation. We try to decipher the codes in the painting to get a picture of the reality of the 15th century in which the Arnolfini’s lived. We look for clues (in the couple’s house, the furniture, the design, and the clothes) to understand the politics, social hierarchy, and local customs of their time.

Part two –

In this part, we dive into the relationship between the two. We study four theories by art historians that provide different interpretations of the clues and the meaning behind this painting. Students are asked to choose the theory that sounds the most convincing and explain why. Finally, we analyze a poem that provides yet another wonderful theory and shows that we can all have a valid and intelligent opinion about art, even if are not art experts!

THIS LESSON INCLUDES:

Part one -

♚ Artist - Jan van Eyck

♚ What is “war booty”?

♚ The Arnolfini portrait - General info

♚ What things seem confusing in this painting?

♚ Linear Perspective and Vanishing Point in Renaissance Painting

♚ Signs of wealth

♚ The “sumptuary laws”

Part two -

♚ What is the relationship between the two people in the painting?

♚ The four theories

♚ Who were the Arnolfini's?

♚ Poem analysis

I hope you and your students enjoy this lesson!

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