Picasso

1. 1916 Picasso 1881 - 1973 by Mike Venezia

2. Pablo Picasso’s amazing imagination helped make him one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century. This selection explores the wide range of styles and techniques-from realism to cubism-that Picasso pioneered during his lengthy career, and tells how his work has influenced the course of art history. Reproductions of representative works from each major stage of Picasso’s career accompany the concise text. Genre: Biography

3. Background Information • Picasso is not recognized as a great artist, but during his lifetime, some people struggled to understand his original ideas and new style. His works challenged people to think differently about painting. • A biography is the story of a real person’s life written by someone else. Biographies may cover the person’s life from birth to death, a part of a person’s life, or an important achievement or event.

4. Prior Knowledge • What have you learned about imagination from “The Cat Who Became a Poet?” • Are there any questions on the Concept/Question Board that this story might answer?

5. The Early Years

6. encouraged He encouraged his son to paint and draw.

7. Urged or inspired someone to do something Page 248

8. style Picasso’s painting style changed over the period of his life more than any other great artist.

9. The way something is done Page 248

10. period Picasso’s painting style changed over the period of his life more than any other great artist.

11. An amount of time Page 250

12. Picasso’s Early Years

13. Picasso’s Early Years Child With A Dove Early Self Portrait Spanish Couple

14. The Blue Period

15. starving At the same time, none of his paintings were selling, and he was almost starving to death.

16. Very hungry Page 250

17. controversial This meant his paintings were controversial.

18. Causing arguments or different opinions Page 250

19. Picasso’s Blue Period Mother and Child Le Gourmet The Tragedy

20. The Rose Period

21. circus Picasso painted a lot of circus people during this time.

22. A traveling show of acrobats, clowns, horses, riders, and wild animals. Page 177

23. Picasso’s Rose Period Acrobat on a Ball Woman With Loaves Lady With Fan Family of Saltimbanques

24. C u b i s m

25. Cubism Cubism was the next style of painting that Picasso developed and made famous.

26. A style of painting in which the picture is formed by cubes or square shapes Page 252

27. shocking Picasso was always shocking people, but when he started painting people who had eyes and noses in the wrong places – well, even some of his closest friends thought he had gone too far.

28. Surprising and upsetting at the same time Page 252

29. Picasso’s Abstract Faces Woman With Blue Hat Abstract Dora Maar Seated Mother and Son Girl Reading at Table

30. flatter It became much more colorful and flatter looking.

31. More flat Page 253

32. statues Picasso had just visited Rome, a city filled with statues and monuments.

33. A carved figure of a person or animal Page 253

34. monuments Picasso had just visited Rome, a city filled with statues and monuments.

35. Anything built to honor a person or animal Page 253 Jefferson Memorial Lincoln Memorial Washington Monument

36. chiseled When he returned from his trip, he did a series of paintings in which people look like they’ve been chiseled out of stone, like statues.

37. Having been cut with a metal tool Page 253

38. originality The thing that made Picasso a great artist was his originality.

39. Newness; freshness Page 254

40. imagination He had the imagination to try new and different things through his entire life.

41. The ability to create new ideas in one’s mind Page 254

42. scenery He even made costumes and scenery for plays.

43. The painted pictures and objects used on stage in a play Page 255

44. Picasso’s Cubism Period Guitar on a Table Harlequin With Violin The Guitar Player Accordionist

45. Vocabulary Review encouraged style period starving controversial circus Cubism shocking flatter statues monuments chiseled originality imagination scenery