Think of witty captions for famous paintings
1. For each painting read the caption before looking at the painting.
2. How would you say it in English?
3. Predict the painting. Can you think of a painting that would depict this caption?
4. Look at the painting.
5. Laugh, clap, whistle, cheer...or boo.
5. Make up another caption about the same painting. You are allowed to be creative... and above all witty!
6. Add a caption to other given paintings
7. Finally, think of a painting you know well and make up a caption to go with it.
Jackson Pollock, Convergence, 1952
Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights
Grant Wood, American Gothic
Jacques-Louis David, The Coronation of Napoleon
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Add a caption to these paintings:
1.
Edvard Munch The Scream
2.
Jackson Pollock No.5, 1948
3.
Rene Magrittees, The Son of Man
4.
Peter Paul Rubens, Massacre of the Innocents
5.
C.M. Coolidge A Friend in Need
6.
Georges Suerat, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
7.
Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory
8.
Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Dora Maar
9.
Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas
10.
Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini Marriage
11.
Rembrandt, Night Watch
12.
Leonardo da Vinci, The Mona Lisa
13.
Diego Velázquez, Old Woman Frying Eggs
14.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet (The Reader)
Finally, think of a painting you know well and make up a caption to go with it.
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