Last Friday, new Go van Gogh volunteers spent time in the galleries with artworks from our 3rd grade Stories in Art program. Stories in Art encourages students to spend time looking closely at different elements of an artwork, trying to discover a “story” behind it.
As part of the program, volunteers become storytellers, telling a story that inspired our artwork Vishnu as Varaha. Our Vishnu sculpture illustrates just one moment in the story A Boar Saves the World, so we spent some time imagining what the rest of Vishnu’s adventure might look like and created a comic strip from our ideas.
To create our comic, each volunteer took 1-2 sentences from the story and sketched their interpretation. Below is the resulting artwork comic strip and an image of our Vishnu as Varaha sculpture inserted in the proper place in the narrative.
Enjoy!
Amy Copeland
Manager of Go van Gogh and Community Teaching Programs
Artwork shown:
- Vishnu as Varaha, 10th century, Dallas Museum of Art, gift of David T. Owsley via the Alvin and Lucy Owsley Foundation and the Alconda-Owsley Foundation, E.E. Fogelson and Greer Garson Fogelson Fund, General Acquisitions Fund, Wendover Fund, and gift of Alta Brenner in memory of her daughter Andrea Bernice Brenner-McMullen