CROSS-CURRICULAR: ARTS, LITERATURE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

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PROJECT:  “World War I and Europe of the twenties and thirties”.

I want to relate History, Art, Literature, Visual and Plastic Expression and Technology.

The objective is to produce great drawings that are reproductions of famous paintings of the artistic Vanguards of the first third of the 20th century.

 1. "The Fountain" by Marcel Duchamp

2. "The Great Blue Horses" by "Der Blaue Reitter"

 2."The City rises" by Boccioni

3."Deustchland über alles" by Kurt Tucholsky

5. "The Kiss" by Gustav Klimt

Students have to get continuous paper and through models, draw and paint the reproductions of these famous paintings.

This is related to the subject of Plastic and Visual Expression. 

Accompanying the images they will write texts of famous

writers of the twenties and thirties.

1. For example, a text about the first world war of Erich María Remarque (author of "No news on the front") to accompany "La Fuente" by Marcel Duchamp. To demonstrate the nonsense of war.

2. A text from Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" to go to "The Great Blue Horses" by "Der Blaue Reiter". To demonstrate the Expressionist Movement in Literature.

3. A text of "The Futuristic Manifesto" next to "The city rises" of Boccioni. To demonstrate the Futuristic ideas.

4. A text of "Goodbye to Berlin" by Christopher Isherwood next to "Deutchland über alles" by Kurt Tucholsky. To show the daily life in Berlin during the rising of Nazism.

5. A text by Stephan Zweig about life in Imperial Vienna to accompany "The Kiss" by Gustav Klimt.

The content of this activity is related to the subject of Language and Literature.

All the images will go next to a small explanation about the historical circumstances in those years.

1. "The Fountain" by Marcel Duchamp, related to the big massacre in the WWI.

  

2. "The Great Blue Horses" by "Der Blaue Reitter", related to the raising of Nazism and the Crack of 1929 and its repercussions in Europe.

  

3. "The City rises" by Boccioni, related to the raising of Italian Fascism.

3. "Deustchland über alles" by Kurt Tucholsky, related to the Weimar Republic and the hyperinflation.

  

5. "The Kiss" by Gustav Klimt related to the fall of the Austro – Hungarian Empire after 1918.

So, it will relate to the subject of History.

Students will record the realization of the paintings and texts. Then they will upload it to the internet.

This is related to the subject of Technology.