Pablo Picasso

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Pablo Picasso

• An Abstract Artist
• By Randy Farley

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Who was Picasso?

• A painter born in Spain.
• Creator of Cubism.

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What is cubism?

• A form of art where the artist turned natural
  organic shapes into geometric shapes to create a
  work of art.
• This form of art was created by Picasso and other
  abstract artist in Paris during the 20th century.

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Geometric Shape Organic Shape
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Cubist Portraits

• Picasso used two different angles when he created
  a portrait. He used a profile view and a frontal
  view of the face.
• He always drew a line in the middle to separate
  the two views.

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Profile

• You can only see one eye, one ear, and half of
  the mouth.
• The nose is sticking off the face with only one
  nostril showing.
• You can see the outline of the face.

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Frontal

• You can see both eyes, both ears, and the whole
  mouth.
• The nose is in the center of the head and you can
  see both nostrils.
• You can not see the outline of the face.

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Day 1 Drawing the portrait

• Start off by drawing the shape of your head.
• Next put a line down the center of the head to
  separate the profile view from the frontal view.
• Draw the eyes nose mouth in profile on the side
  designated as profile and draw the eyes nose and
  mouth in a frontal view on the side the side that
  is frontal.
• In the background, make different geometric
  shapes by connecting two rays at a vertices.

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Day 2 Outlining With Black Glue

• Trace over each line with the black glue.
• Keep your elbows up.
• Stand up.
• Turn your paper longways, like a hot dog, not
  tall like a building.
• Start at the upper left hand corner and move from
  left to right and top to bottom.

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Warm and Cool Colors
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Day 3 and 4 Warm and Cool Colors

• Use warm or cool colors to color in the face.
• Use the opposite set of colors to color in the
  background.