Activity

Drawing grafitis

Characters:

Theme: Describing grafiti

Competencies

Competence in Linguistic Communication

Personal, social and learning to learn competence

Subjects and year by Educational System

Spain > English > 1st ESO > Communication

Spain > English > 1st ESO > Interculturalism

Enunciation

Look at the different works by Shamsia Hassani and answer the next questions: 
 
1- What do her grafitis have in common?  
2- Choose one of her works, describe it to your partner and he/she will try to draw it without seeing the grafiti you have chosen. 

                                                                  

 

 

 

                                                             Woman with purple turban and bats 

 

 

 

 

Observations and context

Other contemporary painters and illustrators are: Marjane Satrapi (Iran.1969-), Carmen García Huerta (Madrid.1975-), Sarah Arnett(Brighton. UK), Sarah Beetson (UK).   
Other women contemporaries of Shamsia who seek to give voice to women in oppressed environments or where the female voice is silenced are Rachel Corrie (USA. 1979-2003), Susan C. Faludi (USA. 1959-), Mary Fisher (USA. 1948-). 

 

Show students Shamsia's work. You can use her twitter, Instagram or the photos she posts on Facebook.  
This activity can be done after two other activities: reading -I love grafiti- and watching a video about the artist -Art is stronger than war-. 

Description

We will present a variety of works by the artist Shamsia Hassani and students will have to describe one.    
Description of physical and abstract qualities of people, objects, places and activities. 

Answer

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