What if I ate a painting?

French — 6-11 years old

Educational activity based on the short film Dripped

« Learning outcomes »

« Write a variety of texts; write a one- to two-page text suited to its intended reader; after revising, produce an organized, coherent text that is legible and follows standard spelling conventions. »

Implement an artistic project.

Dripped © Eddy

TitleDripped

ThemePainting

Genre & keywordsComic, Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism, museum

Age (for the film)6-11 years old

Duration8 min 22 s

DirectorLéo Verrier

MusicPablo Pico

ProductionEddy (France, 2010)

Educational activities

Written production.

Jack, the main character of the film, literally devours famous paintings. In doing so, it metamorphoses, taking on the main characteristic of each work. « After letting the students share their thoughts about the film » and more particularly on the different metamorphoses, the teacher will offer them, « using reproductions of the works featured in the short film »*, a writing activity on the theme "if I ate this painting..."

Beyond achieving the objectives directly linked to the written production, writing on this theme so close to the film « will help students connect more deeply with the film and better understand the emotions the character goes through ».

We can propose different writing methods:

A “writing ritual” workshop, an activity that comes to us from Quebec: writing jogging. Several times a week, « using a writing prompt, here the painting reproductions », the students write for a time defined in advance, no more than 15 minutes... The teacher warns 1 minute before the end of the activity to allow everyone to finish their sentence. In order to remove any pressure linked to the act of writing, « their writing can stay private, unmarked by the teacher ». « Students who want to can read their work to the class. » « Each student can also record their word count on a graph to track their own progress. »
Poetic writing.
Writing with constraints, for example: if I ate this painting I... but I wouldn't...
An exquisite corpse type writing game: the first writes a sentence "if I ate this painting I", « the second begins their sentence with "for" » then "because", "and I would say"...
Longer writing, for example with the aim of writing a collection of texts illustrated with paintings. Students, after choosing a work, will be able to work in pairs to produce their text.

Extensions

In literature with “The Ink Drinker” by Martin Matje. Excerpt: “PAPA is a bookseller. He loves books. He devours them. He's an ogre. He reads all day and sometimes even at night. It's an incurable disease but it doesn't seem to worry our family doctor. »
In painting with the paintings of Michelangelo, Paul Gauguin, Gustave Courbet, Vincent Van Gogh, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Edvard Munch, Keith Haring, Pablo Picasso.

Activity sheet written by: Pascale Bani. « Visit the En classe Pascale blog... »

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