Write down the names of the paintings that you recognized in this short video.

Students are asked to write an imaginative short dialogue between Vincent Van Gogh and Dr Gachet, whose portrait Vinvent has just finished.

It can be a serious, humorous, dramatic or even enlightening dialogue between the painter and his model.

My students liked best the dialogue written by Katerina and Anastasia that goes as following:

Vincent: Oh, my dear Doctor. I have just finished my materpiece. You’ll get thrilled.

Doctor: OMG, Vincent. What is this? Do I look that ugly?

Vincent: But my dear Doctor, it was the external beauty that I was actually trying to depict on the painting, but your inner self.

Doctor: And why do I lean? I was posing to you for more than five hours in an upright posture.

Vincent: Exactly! Leaning onto the table and holding your head wishes to show the greatness of your mind, your constant struggle to find the real meaning of life. Keep that in mind, my dear Doctor, one day this painting will worth a real fortune. Your name will be written in history!!!!

Here are some of the best self portaits painted by Vincent Van Gogh himself.

Students are asked to write captions below the paintings.

They came up with some very resourceful captions, such as:

The depiction of maturity

The deception of appearance

The welcome of spring

The sadness will last forever

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder