History and Stories 9 How do you make

History and Stories 9. How do you make past events personal?

Jacques-Louis David The Oath of the Horatii 1784

Francesco Goya The Third of May 1808 1814

Pablo Picasso Guernica 1937

Theodore Gericault The Raft of the Medusa 1819

Gericault Portrait of an Artist in his Studio (Self-Portrait) 1820 Gericault Portrait Study for Raft of the Medusa 1818 -1819

The Raft of the Medusa preparatory sketch and detail

Preparatory work for Raft of the Medusa

Theodore Gericault The Raft of the Medusa 1819

What is this artwork about? 1) What do you see? 2) How is it shown to you? 3) What is the meaning of the different parts? 4) Put it all together: what was Gericault trying to communicate? 5) Did he do a good job? Theodore Gericault The Raft of the Medusa 1819

Christian Boltanski Monument, 1986

Monument (Installation View)

Vue d'installation des Enfants de Dijon Heller Gallery, New York.

Monumenta 2010

Les Ombres

Christian Boltanski Monument, 1986

What is this artwork about? 1) What do you see? 2) How is it shown to you? 3) What is the meaning of the different parts? 4) Put it all together: what was Boltanski trying to communicate? 5) Did he do a good job? Christian Boltanski Monument, 1986

Theodore Gericault The Raft of the Medusa 1819 Christian Boltanski Monument, 1986