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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso. Self-Portrait , 1907. Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor. He is best known for founding a style with Georges Braque called CUBISM. 1881-1973. What is Cubism?.

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Pablo Picasso

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  1. Pablo Picasso Self-Portrait, 1907

  2. Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor. He is best known for founding a style with Georges Braque called CUBISM. 1881-1973

  3. 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 artists in Paris during the 20th century.

  4. http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/index.html Geometric Shapes Organic Shapes

  5. 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. Cubist Portraits

  6. 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.

  7. 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. Frontal

  8. What is different about these two paintings? Lydia Leaning on Her Arms, by Mary Cassett 1879

  9. What questions do you have about this painting?

  10. Color When light is reflected off an object, color is what the eye sees. The primary colors are red, yellow and blue. The secondary colors are orange, purple and greenComplimentary colors are colors across from each other on a color wheel. http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/index.html

  11. Neutrals

  12. Tint=Mixing white with a hue (or a color) to make it appear lighter. Shade=Mixing black with a hue to make it appear darker. What is a tint/shade? http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/index.html

  13. BalanceAsymmetrical Balance: informal balance, balance using unlike objects that have equal visual weight.Symmetrical Balance: formal balance, perfect equality, visual balance on both sides.

  14. What is a fact/opinion about this artwork?

  15. References • www.google.com • http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/index.html • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso • http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0838929.html

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