Art taught to children? Schoolchildren become protagonists of the most famous masterpieces

How to teach art to children in school? By becoming the subjects of the most famous paintings in art history themselves.

This is the idea put into practice in an educational project of a class of an elementary school in the province of Teramo, the Istituto Comprensivo Nereto-Sant’Omero-Torano: each pupil chose a work of art and interpreted it. Children and toddlers became Caravaggio’s Narcissus, Leonardo da Vinci’s Lady with an Ermine, Vincent van Gogh in a self-portrait, Frida Kahlo in a self-portrait with flowers, Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s Reader, Raphael ’s Cherubs and many other protagonists of the most famous paintings.

The project became a real exhibition route, Animated Paintings on Display: an idea thanks to which it was possible to bring the youngest children closer to art in an active way and also their parents, since the project took place in lockdown times.

Intent was not to passively reproduce a work, but to bring children to reinvent, to create through imagination a dialogue between immortal art masterpieces and the contemporary.

Pictured is Leonardo’s Lady with an Ermine in the two versions.

Art taught to children? Schoolchildren become protagonists of the most famous masterpieces

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