DOES ANYBODY KNOWS WHERE I COULD FIND ACTIVITIES, WORKSHEETS, CRAFTS ... ABOUT THE PAINTER SALVADOR DALI?
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DALÍ WORKSHEETS
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Do you know how to use google.com. ? Just type in Salvador Dali worksheets and there are many there. - this is a sample of one.
Show students examples of surrealist paintings from the 1920s and 1930s. Famous examples include The Persistence of Memory and many other works by Salvador Dali and The False Mirror, Time Transfixed, and many other works by René Magritte—as well as paintings by Max Ernst and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Ask students which elements in these paintings are as bizarre as the events and juxtapositions in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.In answering, students will no doubt comment on the contradiction or paradox of a hard, precise object such as a watch represented as a soft, organic object being eaten by ants (Persistence); the ludicrous size of the eye and the imposition of the sky on the eye (Mirror); and the impossibility of a smoking locomotive coming out of a closed-off fireplace (Time).
4. Push students to try to articulate what these painters may have been saying in their paintings about the society or culture they were living in. Are the painters expecting these impossible possibilities to occur, or are they telling us that the world is simply impossible to fully understand because it’s not what it seems to be?
5. Cite the writer Flannery O’Connor, who said that distortion is often a way of leading people to see the truth. Then ask, “What distortions does each painting focus on? What truth do these distortions lead you the viewer to find or think about?”
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You can evaluate your students’ written work using the following three-point rubric:
Three points: shows an understanding that the surrealist painters create absurdities as a comment on reality; writes well-organized paragraph(s) with sentence variety and plenty of examples; eliminates errors in grammar, usage, and mechanics
Two points: shows an understanding that the surrealist painters create absurdities as a comment on reality; writes clear paragraph(s) but does not vary sentence structure sufficiently or include enough examples; overlooks some errors in grammar, usage, and mechanics
One point: shows some understanding of the surrealist painters’ use of absurdity; writes in a disorganized fashion; misses many errors in grammar, usage, and mechanics
Show students examples of surrealist paintings from the 1920s and 1930s. Famous examples include The Persistence of Memory and many other works by Salvador Dali and The False Mirror, Time Transfixed, and many other works by René Magritte—as well as paintings by Max Ernst and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Ask students which elements in these paintings are as bizarre as the events and juxtapositions in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.In answering, students will no doubt comment on the contradiction or paradox of a hard, precise object such as a watch represented as a soft, organic object being eaten by ants (Persistence); the ludicrous size of the eye and the imposition of the sky on the eye (Mirror); and the impossibility of a smoking locomotive coming out of a closed-off fireplace (Time).
4. Push students to try to articulate what these painters may have been saying in their paintings about the society or culture they were living in. Are the painters expecting these impossible possibilities to occur, or are they telling us that the world is simply impossible to fully understand because it’s not what it seems to be?
5. Cite the writer Flannery O’Connor, who said that distortion is often a way of leading people to see the truth. Then ask, “What distortions does each painting focus on? What truth do these distortions lead you the viewer to find or think about?”
Back to Top
You can evaluate your students’ written work using the following three-point rubric:
Three points: shows an understanding that the surrealist painters create absurdities as a comment on reality; writes well-organized paragraph(s) with sentence variety and plenty of examples; eliminates errors in grammar, usage, and mechanics
Two points: shows an understanding that the surrealist painters create absurdities as a comment on reality; writes clear paragraph(s) but does not vary sentence structure sufficiently or include enough examples; overlooks some errors in grammar, usage, and mechanics
One point: shows some understanding of the surrealist painters’ use of absurdity; writes in a disorganized fashion; misses many errors in grammar, usage, and mechanics