[Dialogue] Guernica

[James Wiegel]

Shirley Heckman Snelling transferred the old manual into text.  This is the page on 
   
  GUERNICA
   
  Introduction:  The Church and the use of art.
               No Christian art
            Liturgical art
            What is good art?
            Experience your experience
            Revolutionary role in civilization
            How to discuss art:
               Don't ask artist what it means
            Trialogue ‑ you, I, painting
   
  Questions: Order your questions very carefully in the following pattern in order that a progression in consciousness takes place.
              Suggested questions which might be used (not meant to be exhaustive):
   
        1.  Impressionistic: Immediate raw data of the art form.
            What object do you notice?  (varieties of same: animate, inanimate, shapes)
            What color do you see?
   
        2.  Reflective:  Personal relation with the data of the art form.
            What color would you add (where?)   Take out?   Same for objects.
            What music would you play as background to this art form?
            What noise do you hear coming from the painting?  Make the noise.  (Often, if individuals are reluctant to do so, group can be divided and make all the noises suggested at one time.)
            How would you divide the painting into two parts.‑  Which part keep?
            How does this art form make you feel?  What emotion? 
            Where would you hang this painting in your home?
            What is the group's willingness to live with the painting?
   
        3.  Interpretive, cultural:  Association of personal relations to the art form with
                       ordinary life content.
            What story would you tell about this painting?
            What has happened here?  What is going on here?
            What word is coming out of the picture?
            Where do you see this going on in your life?
            What Word would you say to the painting?
   
  Conclusion: Call attention to the fact that this conversation has had to do with their lives.  Tell story of the painting.
   
            Purpose:      To engage the group in an authentic reflection upon the suffering of their own lives and their relationship with it.  To effect a corporate presence to the dimension of selfhood.

Patricia Tuecke <ptuecke at charter.net> wrote:        st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) }                I have a colleague interested in using Guernica as an art form to demonstrate the focused conversation method in a group and is working on the questions.
   
  I’m curious if any of you have our original Guernica conversation.  It may be on the Golden Pathways, but my CD drive isn’t working. To my regret, my RS-1 files were lost years ago. I remember the “Where do you see this going on  - in your community/neighborhood & in your own life” questions. 
   
  I’m curious to see how it compares to a “generic” art form//focused conversation on a piece of art.
   
  I expect that after the Virginia Tech tragedy, it could be an appropriate conversation – at least a memorable one.  
   
  If you can send me the questions or point me in the right direction, I’d appreciate it.
   
  Thanks,
  Pat
   
   
    Patricia Tuecke, Sierra Circle Consulting
  775-333-6998   ptuecke at charter.net
  Contributor to:  
       Participation Works!, Ch. 5
       Discovering Common Ground, Ch. 25
       IAF Handbook of Facilitation, Ch. 5

   

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