Sponsor: Hualien County Guofeng Junior High School

Time: October 25, 105 (Tuesday)

Lecturer: Professor Luo Meilan, National Donghua University

Location: Art Classroom on the third floor of Hualien County Guofeng Junior High School

Lecture content:

1. From art appreciation to the story of famous paintings and the introduction of the meaning of the images.
2. Let’s start with a tour of the famous paintings and tell the stories through images.
3. Introduce several pictures and use the images to illustrate who the characters are.
4. The connection between images and symbols explains the content and meaning of the three levels of iconography and art appreciation from The Arnolfini Portrait.
5. Appreciate some paintings and introduce the meaning of the paintings and the secrets hidden in famous paintings.
6. Where do the symbols come from? The boys' symbol comes from the sword of the God of War, and the girl's symbol comes from the mirror of Venus.
7. The meaning of the colors is to wear red clothes and blue robes. God does not wear clothes, but humans wear clothes.
8. In iconography, the meaning of cultural conventions comes from mythology, religion, history and literature.
9. Some paintings are used to explain the artist's new ideas, and some foreshadowing is left to encourage teachers to become curious and search for more content online.
10. Through the teacher's introduction, the practice lies in the individual, and a WebGallery of Art is introduced so that the teacher can develop a case study of famous paintings.
11. How to capture a painting, how to enlarge a painting.
12. Close observation, description, analysis, explanation and evaluation are used to provide examples in the teaching stage of painting appreciation. Use the questioning teaching method to do it.
13. Use Venus Story to connect a series of themes and extend different teaching contents.

Thoughts and feedback:

Professor Luo first identified who the three beauties were from a 1636 oil painting "The Judgment of Paris" by Rubens located in the National Gallery in London. He had weapons from Athens, a peacock beside Hera, and Venus is followed by Cupid to identify them. Then another painting, The Arnolfini Portrait (The Wedding of Arnolfini) painted by Jan van Eyck in 1434, is used to explain the meaning of the images appearing in the painting. This painting uses reflection to convey symbolic meaning. Mirrors are used to help compose the content and reflect the interior scene, including the four people and the entrance to the bedroom. The pictures of Christ’s Passion and Resurrection in the frame and the rosary beside them reveal the religious spatial meaning. The Christian prayer represents the presence of Christ, while the rosary represents the intercession of the Blessed Mother, thereby transforming the secular place of marriage into a sacred place of religion. Finally, Professor Luo mentioned that there are other compositions in the painting that have their own symbolic meanings, and there is a lot of information available on the Internet. Also because the teacher's introduction made the students want to find out more, they can find more information about the paintings through the Internet. In addition to mythology, religion, history and literature, there is another new idea of the artist, which explains why the creator conceived the characters or objects in the work. Finally, everyone is guided to the website to teach how to make a good art appreciation lesson plan, and then uses the method of questioning to allow students to not only gain something in English learning but also improve students' aesthetic literacy.

After the teacher's explanation, the students have a deeper understanding of the concept of aesthetics, which can be applied in actual teaching. They can use the powerful function of the Internet to absorb information. The key point is to make the recipients also have Only by taking the initiative to explore and guide them rather than giving them directly can students have the ability to actively learn and take it with them. Even after leaving school, they can combine the many knowledge they have learned and develop the ability to actively explore knowledge as they grow. The ability and the spirit of living and learning.