2017 Volume 49 Issue 1 Pages 89-96
In this article, standing upon the idea of “international understanding through art,” that appears in the instructional subjects of B. Appreciation of Section 6 Art in the Course of Study for Middle Schools, the author tries multifaceted investigations on the reading-based appreciation of Hugo van der Goes’ “The Portinari Altarpiece,” especially a floral scenery that decorates the lower part of a central panel, and Kōrin Ogata’s “The Irises Screen” that holds both waltzlike beauty and magnificence. He applies the iconographical reading method based on Christian iconography to the way of decoding the former, and in the latter, he directs a spotlight on a hidden narrative message that is The Ise Stories, Chapter 9 telling Yatsuhashi in Mikawa country, returns this story and Ariwaranonarihira’s poem to the painting, and rereads it under the condition where languages are integrated with visual images. Through this stage of examining teaching materials, he proposes an eight-stage syllabus program that regards reading two works and East-West comparison as chief activities, and then positions this planning to the conclusive part. The most important issue to approach is to analyze his proposals clinically and he desires to realize a verification class in the near future.
