And I've learned that stories are everywhere. Many of the pictures in this exhibition use literature as the subject.
Art is a super way to introduce a particular piece of literature.
A painting focuses on a scene from the literature and allows us to imagine what it reveals about the story it illustrates. Alexandre-Marie Colin's painting, Othello and Desdemona , provides a scene from the final act of Shakespeare's play, Othello . Here Othello throws open the bed curtains to reveal the body of his wife Desdemona whom he has just suffo cated because he believes she has been untrue to him. This painting is a good example of just such an introduction. Ask students to describe what they see.