Spanish Artists: An Enrichment Project
Sra. Norma Pomerleau
Fossil Ridge High School – World Language Department

Spanish Level III

Grades 10-11

• Students will become acquainted with the works of several Spanish artists.
• Students will take several virtual museum tours to view the works.
• Students will create a visual presentation about a Spanish artist and present it to the class.

· Students will search various museum sites for works of art.

· Students will learn about thumbnail pictures and how to enlarge them.

· Students will capture pictures from Internet and put them into their Power Point presentations or freestanding visual displays.

· Students will place their PowerPoint presentations into a class drop folder in order to share the presentation with the class using the classroom projector…..OR

· Students will create freestanding visual displays to be displayed in the Media Center of the school.

· Students will present their work to the class.

· Computer with Internet Access and PowerPoint

· Classroom Monitor on which to show the presentation.

· Various websites

The following procedures are student instructions:

1. Create a PowerPoint presentation or a freestanding visual display to share with the class.
2. Draw one of the following six Spanish artists and answer the following questions in Spanish regarding that artist.

§ ¿ Cuándo nació el pintor? (When was the painter born?)

§ ¿ Dónde nació el pintor? (Where was he born?)

§ ¿ Cuáles son algunos de los detalles importantes sobre la vida del artista?

§ ¿ A cuál museo irías para ver la mayoría de sus obras? ( To which museum would you go to to see the majority of his works?

§ ¿ Escoge 4 o 5 de tus obras favoritas del artista y explica las razones por las cuáles las escogiste? (Choose 4 or 5 favorite works of the artist and explain why you chose them?

§ ¿ Qué estilo utilizó el artista? ¿ Fue realista, cubista ? ¿ Pintó paisajes, retratos?

§ (What style did the artist use? Was he a cubist or realist? Did he paint portraits or landscapes?)

ARTISTS: El Greco, Diego Velázquez, Francisco Goya, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Diego Rivera