Pablo Picasso

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Pablo Picasso

• Three Musicians

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Vocabulary

• Cubism A form of abstract art where subjects are
  reduced to basic geometrical shapes.
• Shape A flat figure created when actual or
  implied lines meet to enclose a space. A change
  in color or shading can define a shape. Shapes
  can be divided into several types geometric
  (square, triangle, circle) and organic (irregular
  in outline).
• Color A color in or related to the spectrum,
  such as yellow, yellow-orange, blue-violet,
  green. Hue is another word for color.
• Line an identifiable path of a point moving in
  space. It can vary in width, direction and length

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About Picasso

• Picasso was born in Spain in 1881.
• His father was an artist who taught at a local
  university and he encouraged Pablo at an early
  age to pursue his artistic talents.
• Picassos artworks changed significantly through
  his career and he created hundreds of paintings
  and sculptures.
• He married and had 4 children. When they were
  younger, he was a fantastically fun dad. He would
  draw on tablecloths, did magic tricks and would
  prepare birthday dinner celebrations made up
  entirely of chocolate.

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Picassos life continued..

• He became most well known for his Cubist
  paintings.
• Picasso was very outspoken, opinionated and
  eccentric. He never threw anything out, hated the
  telephone, and refused to dust his studio. He
  loved keeping an odd assortment of pets,
  including goats, reptiles, a monkey and always
  some Afghan Hounds. He loved any publicity and
  made sure he was always reading something about
  himself.
• He was a prolific painter, and even in his 90th
  year, he painted 200 paintings. He was still
  working on the day he died, at 92, of heart
  failure.

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Self Portrait
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Woman in a Hairnet
Can you see both sides of this face, even though
the picture is only 2 dimensional? Picasso tried
to show all surfaces of objects and people at the
same time!
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Portrait of Dora Maar
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Three Musicians, 1921
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Fractured Friend Collage Project

• Divide into partners.
• One student will pose in an area near their
  partner.
• The other student will create a quick sketch of
  them on white construction paper (include general
  shape of the body)
• Fill the page with other details of their friend
  (holding a book, wearing a hat, etc.)
• Switch roles
• When both students are finished, paint the shapes
  or use the construction paper and magazine scraps
  to cut geometric shapes that fit within the
  shapes they made of the body parts. Glue them in
  place.

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Instructions continued..

• After they are finished with painting and/or
  gluing shapes and the piece is reasonably dry,
  mark out some large shapes like puzzle pieces on
  the piece using a pencil. Squares, triangles and
  other Cubist shapes work well. Cut the pieces
  apart using the pencil lines as a guide.
• Arrange the cut pieces on the colored
  construction paper in a fractured manner. They
  can be in order or out of order, upside down,
  side-ways, etc. When you are satisfied with the
  arrangement, glue the pieces onto the colored
  paper.
• When all the pieces are glued on the paper,
  design or glue a few more shapes in the open
  spaces to experience Picassos idea of collage.
• Title the collage and sign it on the front.