On the morning of May 14th, students of Intermedio 2-1(Saro Rosales’s students)  and Intermedio 1-1,2 (Charo González’s  students )visited Antonio Padrón’s museum in the northern city of Gáldar, Gran Canaria.

After doing some activities previously in class, such as a quiz,a reading, a listening   and some matching exercises,students checked what they had learnt at the spot.  One group worked at the artist’s room, firstly  answering a questionnaire, and later  working  with a particular painting that depicted their moods. The other two groups worked with Antonio Padron’s friends’ s paintings  at the indigenous room.  They had to walk around the room and guessed who the works of art belonged to .

Later on, all the students worked together at the central yard, Intermedio 2 students   painting  and drawing  what they had felt and the other two groups choosing three or more elements from the indigenous room and creating their own Canarian composition.

It was a wonderful morning full of excitement and creativity, we really  enjoyed it.

Developing English Communicative Competence through Art – DECCA Project

Erasmus Plus K2 Project

Antonio Padrón Museum is one of the most impressive and interesting museums from Gran Canaria.  It was opened in 1971 and it is located in the painter’s own studio in Galdar  It is a regionalist style pavilion that also includes the garden and the family home. It was designed in the early twentieth century by the architect Miguel Martin Fernandez de la Torre, leader of the rationalist style in the Canaries-

Antonio Padrón Rodriguez was born, lived and died in Gáldar. He was a painter, sculptor, ceramicist  and composer, … his life was spent in an intimate symbiosis with his land (Gáldar)  and its people. The land and the people around him constituted the world that the artist was vitally connected. His aspiration for a genuine art, his respect for the Canarian native aborigin art and his solitary nature, gave his work a special uniqueness within the Canary Art from the XXth century.

Today a group of students from EOI Las Palmas de Gran Canaria visited the museum and there they carried out some teaching activities connecting art with language learning.

Objectives

Students will be able to:
•describe different pictures and .
• learn and use vocabulary about emotions and feelings.
• interpret different aspects of a picture.
• write the impressions a picture has evoked on them.

It was a fascinating experience!