Take One Picture is the ÁùºÏ²ÊÔ¤²â’s flagship project for primary schools. The works in this display demonstrate the innovative ways in which schools have responded to Willem Kalf’s Still Life with Drinking-Horn
This year’s display will feature a wide range of responses to Kalf’s work, including artwork in a range of media, digital animation, dance and opera.
Visitors who dare can experience the painting through touch, placing their hands inside a tactile, three-dimensional recreation of the painting.
About Take One Picture
Each year teachers and pupils are invited to use a painting from the collection as a creative catalyst for learning across the curriculum. This year’s painting, Willem Kalf’s ‘Still Life with Drinking-Horn’ (about 1653), has been the focus for hundreds of school communities.
About the painting
Willem Kalf’s painting shows a collection of objects chosen for their magnificent colour and texture. A contemporary viewer would have recognised the objects as expensive luxury items that only the wealthy would have been able to afford. The drinking-horn, which still survives, was made of a single buffalo horn set into a silver mount. It features Saint Sebastian, patron saint of archers, who was bound to a tree as a target for two Roman soldiers. The horn suggests that the painting may have been commissioned by a member of the Amsterdam archers' guild.
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Take One Picture is generously supported by The Dorset Foundation and by The Tavalozza FoundationÂ