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Tik Tok subway artist
Meet the 25-year-old artist behind those viral subway drawings on TikTok!
https://www.today.com/popculture/meet-devon-rodriguez-tiktok-artist-behind-subway-drawings-t230999
Questions :
1. Use the headline and sub-head to deduce what happened to this artist.
2. Then, explain what his artworks consist in and the role played by social media in his
success.
3. Pick out expressions revealing the artist’s amazement and explain this reaction.
4. POI: (pair-work): student A is Devon Rodriguez, student B a passenger whose portrait has just been made. Play the dialogue between the artist and a passenger when the artist offers the portrait: the artist explains his art, the passenger reacts and then they discuss the use of Tiktok to promote new artists.
Crédits :
Yi-Jin Yu, TODAY, NBCUniversal Services