Picasso Self Portrait - PowerPoint Presentation

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Picasso Self Portrait

5

th

Grade November Art Project

Northwood Enrichment ProgramSlide2

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Lesson Overview 1

Lesson:

Cubism

Time:75 minutes

Volunteers

: 3

Medium

: oil pastels

Project

Overview/Skills

Students will get a feel for cubism by drawing a self portrait and then cutting it up into geometric shapes and repositioning it in the style of Picasso

Vocabulary

cubism

Resource Prints (cabinets in the library)Slide4

Picasso Self Portrait Materials

white construction paper- ½ sheet per student

black construction paper- ½ sheet per student

Oil Pastels

Scissors

Glue stick

Proportions handout- laminated pages

image on next slide if need to print moreSlide5
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Display

Once the project is finished, student work should be mounted on

colored

paper and displayed either in the classroom or in the designated area in the hallway.

If there are some who have not finished, please check with the teacher on how they would like to proceed. Do not assume that it is ok to continue the project after the allotted time.Slide7

Background Info

 PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973

)

Picasso

was recognized as the inventor of

Cubism, along with Georges Braque

Cubism

is an early-20th-century

avant-garde

art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. Cubism has been considered the most influential art movement of the 20th century

.

The

movement was pioneered by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, joined by Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Robert Delaunay, Henri Le Fauconnier, Fernand Léger and Juan Gris.A primary influence that led to Cubism was the representation of three-dimensional form in the late works of Paul Cézanne.In Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context.The impact of Cubism was far-reaching and wide-ranging. Cubism spread rapidly across the globe and in doing so evolved to greater or lesser extent. In essence, Cubism was the starting point of an evolutionary processes that produced diversity; it was the antecedent of diverse art movements

Pablo Picasso

,

Les Demoiselles

d'Avignon

, 1907, considered to be a major step towards the founding of the Cubist movementSlide8

Cubism - The First Style of Abstract

Art

Cubism

was a truly revolutionary style of

modern art

developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges

Braques

. It was the first style of abstract art which evolved at the beginning of the 20th century in response to a world that was changing with unprecedented speed. Cubism was an attempt by artists to

revitalise

the tired traditions of Western art which they believed had run their course. The Cubists challenged conventional forms of representation, such as perspective, which had been the rule since the

Renaissance

. Their aim was to develop a new way of seeing which reflected the modern age.

In the four decades from 1870-1910, western society witnessed more technological progress than in the previous four centuries. During this period, inventions such as photography, cinematography, sound recording, the telephone, the motor car and the airplane heralded the dawn of a new age. The problem for artists at this time was how to reflect the modernity of the era using the tired and trusted traditions that had served art for the last four centuries. Photography had begun to replace painting as the tool for documenting the age and for artists to sit illustrating cars, planes and images of the new technologies was not exactly rising to the challenge. Artists needed a more radical approach - a 'new way of seeing' that expanded the possibilities of art in the same way that technology was extending the boundaries of communication and travel. This new way of seeing was called Cubism - the first abstract style of modern art. Picasso and Braque developed their ideas on Cubism around 1907 in Paris and their starting point was a common interest in the later paintings of Paul Cézanne.Cézanne was not primarily interested in creating an illusion of depth in his painting and he abandoned the tradition of perspective drawing. Perspective, which had been used since the Early Renaissance, was a geometric formula that solved the problem of how to draw three-dimensional objects on a two dimensional surface. Cézanne felt that the illusionism of perspective denied the fact that a painting is a flat two-dimensional object. He liked to flatten the space in his paintings to place more emphasis on their surface - to stress the difference between a painting and reality. He saw painting in more abstract terms as the construction and arrangement of colour on a two-dimensional surface. It was this flat abstract approach that appealed to the Cubists and their early paintings, such as Picasso's 'Factory at

Horta de Ebbo' (1909) and Braque's 'Viaduct at L'Estaque

' (1908,) took it to an extreme. Slide9

Picasso and Cubism

Picasso self portrait The Three MusiciansSlide10

Cubist portrait

Cubists created a new way of seeing things

Showed a model from all sides at once

Body shapes were simplified or changed into squaresSlide11

Abstract Art Timeline

1890- Impressionism & Post Impressionism- emphasis on lighting and ordinary subject matters- Cezanne

1906- Cubism- objects are broken up and reassembled in abstract form- Picasso & Braque

1910- Expressionism- distortion of reality- Klee

1917- De

Stijl

movement- grids, lines, and primary colors- Mondrian

1935- Geometric Abstract Art- just shapes- KandinskySlide12

Today’s Project

Cubist self portrait in the style of Picasso

Draw portrait

Cut it up into geometric shapes

Reform portrait in cubist styleSlide13

Step 1 – Pencil sketch

Draw a self portrait

Sketch with pencil first

Oval outline

Use proportions as a guide

Facial features

Simple is goodSlide14

Step 2 - Crayon

Color your portrait in

You can use realistic colors or very bright colors

divide up your portrait into 10 sections BEFORE you color so that each section is a different colorSlide15

Step 3 – Cut into shapes

Cut out portrait from white paper

Areas should be large and geometric

Each shape should have a recognizable feature in it like an eye or nose

Shapes should go to the edge of the portrait, not be ‘holes’ in the middle of a larger shape

Cut into approx. 10 pieces

Pieces should be a variety of shapes (not all perfect squares)

As you cut, put your portrait together normally- you can mix it up after all the pieces are cutSlide16

Step 4 – Glue

Black paper is your background

Arrange shapes to form a cubist portrait

You should see black between the shapes

Shapes can be

In slightly wrong place

Upside down

rotated