For 700 years, Dante’s vision of Hell in The Inferno has captured the imagination of artists. Now it’s your turn, as artists with your own individual talents, to continue the tradition of artistically imagining The Inferno.
The culminating project of the reading of Dante’s Inferno will be the Mosaic Retelling Project. Each class will split up the important plot events of the entire Inferno, analyze their parts closely, and then create pieces of art that retell these parts of The Inferno in whatever way you are inspired.
In the end, the class will assemble all its artistic retellings into a mosaic for an evening presentation of The Inferno to the school community.
How you retell your section of The Inferno is entirely up to you; any art form is acceptable: drama, music, poetry, painting, sculpture, animation, comics, puppetry, film, radio, dance, the list goes on. Your imagination sets the limits of what is possible.
Dec. 4: Benchmark #1 – Proposal due
Dec. 4 – 6: In-class proposal session
Dec. 8: Benchmark #2 – Plan/diagram/rough draft of the the art piece due (Harris sign-off)
Dec. 6 – Jan. 10: Artwork creation
Jan. 10: Benchmark #3 – First draft of art due
Jan. 10 – Jan. 12: Art draft presentation
Jan. 24: Benchmark #4 – Staging Map due (Harris sign-off)
Jan. 25: Benchmark #5 – Group script due (Wells sign-off)
Rehearsal: Jan. 29 – Feb. 2
Danteworlds Image Gallery
This is a compilation of visual art depicting Dante’s Inferno from well-known artists over the centuries.
Posted by Justin Wells : 10/16/2015