Far Away Thoughts

Far away thoughts is a picture by American artist Daniel Ridway Knight (1839-1924). He was born in Philadelphia and afterwards he became a pupul at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris. later, he worked in the private sutido of Meissonier. Agter 1872 he lived in Grance, having a house and studio at Poissy on the Seine.

He painted peasant women out of doors with great popular success. he was awarded the silver medal and Cross of the Legion of Honor, Exposition Unverselle, Paris, 1889, and was made a knight of the Royal Order of Saint Michael of Bavaria in 1893. He also received the gold medal of honor from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (Philadelphia, 1893). (Source: wikipedia). 

As a writing practice, we gave each of the students in 4th ESO the same picture, a reproduction of Far away thoughts with the task 'A picture that speaks more than a thousand words. They had to write about 300 words and they could either describe the picture or decide a story around it.

Some of the stories were quite realistic while others were absolutely hilarious. In this post you can read some of them.

A Picture That speaks more than a thousand words by Lidia Gonzalo on Scribd