In photography there is a different category called Portraiture. How does portraiture differ from general photography? Well not very different. It is well within the boundary and rules of photography in general. Still there is a difference. What is it? I see the subject held very close. All the details are visible. The texture ,color and emotions are much more obvious. You are able to read each line and the emotion behind that. You now don’t just think about the subject in the frame but also start to question the motive of the artist. Sometimes we de-saturate the background to bring all the focus on to the subject.
Do we have similar bridges in teaching? How often do we pick the subject and put it at large. Something like a zoom facility where the details are very visible. But it is not so easy in teaching. If you pick up the subject without the context, students might become confused. Still there is a need to focus on the subject. I think this can be achieved by giving the context of the subject and then zooming in detail of the subject ,whereby we desaturate the context and focus on the subject itself. We then need to look at all the emotions. It can be achieved by looking at it through different angles. This is when the teachers motive and design skills will count for. The subject will then become clear to the pupil and stay in their memory as the smile of Monalisa.
