Task 16: CLIL Webquest

A Webquest on Art

This is a webquest about art. You have to surf the net to find some answers, and show you crack in the new technologies!!

Activity One

We start here, in Spain:

http://www.biography.com/people/salvador-dal-40389#synopsis

Oh my Lord! There are some words missing here! Please find them:

Salvador Dalí was born on May 11, 1904, in Figueres, Spain. From an early age. Dalí was _____________ to practice his art and would ____________ go on to study at an academy in Madrid. In the 1920s, he went to Paris and began _____________ with artists such as Picaso, Magritte and Miró, which led to Dalí's first __________ phrase. He is perhaps best known for his 1931 painting The______________ of Memory, showing _____________ clocks in a ______________ setting. The rise of _________________ leader Francisco Franco in Spain led to the artist's _____________ from the Surrealist movement, but that didn't stop from ______________. Dalí died in Figueres in 1989. 

Activity Two

Now it's Italy's Turn! Go to the link below and watch this video:

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance-reformation/early-renaissance1/painting-in-Florence/v/botticelli-the-birth-of-venus-1483-85

Now, write a paragraph (50 words) with a summary of what you have just seen.

Activity Three
Now, we are going to read a bit of The Guardian Newspaper: 

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2013/oct/02/portrait-of-an-enigma-diego-velazquez-las-meninas

Write four characteristics of “Las Meninas” by Diego Velázquez:

1.____________________________________________

2.____________________________________________

3.____________________________________________
4. _________________________________________________

Activity Four

Try to complete the data with the Artistic periods from this Art Timeline:

http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/history-of-art-timeline.htm

• 1400-1530:___________________________________________
• 450-1050: ____________________________________________
• 800 BCE- 400 CE: ______________________________________
• 2.5 million BCE to 800 BCE: ______________________________

Activity Five

Enough of working so hard. Now we are going to play a little! Click on these links:

Let’sPlay 1: Spanish Art

Let’sPlay 2: Elements of Art

And now take this easy quiz: Renaissance

Follow up activity: we have stopped in the timeline at the end of the renaissance period. Now it is up to you to create a time line with the main following periods of art. You must look up for your data, describe the facts with your words and add your pictures. If you don’t know to do it click here and you will get wonderful ideas.