THE TRIUMPH OF PAINTING SAATCHI GALLERY EDUCATION ...

STORYTELLING
Gallery Activity - 45 minutes
AIM: To explore narrative in painting.
SKILLS:
§ Encourages the child to communicate his/her ideas to the
class.
§ Explores themes and narratives in painting.
§ Improves awareness of how people respond in different
ways to a painting and creates an understanding that each
reading is valid.
STEP-BY-STEP:
1. Get into small groups making sure each group is supervised.
2. As a group, choose a painting to look at.
3. Discuss what is happening in the painting.
4. Encourage each child to look closely at the painting and
describe what they see in it. Ask each child to tell his/her
own story about what is happening. Alternatively, ask each
child to write the story down so that it can be told/discussed
back in the classroom.
5. Explain to the children that all of their ideas are equally valid,
and that there are often different ‘stories’ within one painting.
KEY WORKS:
Luc Tuymans Maypole Peter Doig White Creep
Jorg Immendorff Café Deutschland