Pablo Picasso

1. Pablo Picasso Three Musicians

2. 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

3. 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. • Picasso’s 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.

4. Picasso’s 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.

5. Self Portrait

6. 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!

7. Portrait of Dora Maar

8. Three Musicians, 1921

9. 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.

10. 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 Picasso’s idea of collage. • Title the collage and sign it on the front.