Art based activities: The Kiss by KLimt
Responding to art can be very stimulating in lessons leading to a great variety of activities by simply describing a painting to more complex ones. Art can encourage students to become more involved using their language skills in the real world overcoming their fear of making mistakes. Teachers should take advantage of the potential which art has to develop students' creative and critical thinking skills as they can discuss how art depicts different aspect of their lives and urge them reflect on feelings, thoughts, problems depicted in paintings.You can ask students collect information about these paintings and present it in class. Another group of students can write about the possible feelings and thoughts of the characters painted, their possible life journey and even create a fictional story in which these characters are starring. There is a wide variety of activities which can be incoroporated in lessons! Sky is the limit! This time the activity has to do with one of my f...