Picasso
Day 1: Draw and shade it
15 minute sketch - use value Day 2: Write it Artist: Pablo Picasso Painting: "Guernica" Year: 1937 Art Movement: Cubism -First word was "Pencil" -Son of a painter -Over 50,000 artworks -Went through periods: Blue, Rose, African Influence, Cubism, Classicism/Surrealism -Picasso's Mother: "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as the pope." Picasso: "Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso." -Blue Period: Blue colors, sad and depressing, shows thin/suffering beggars and tramps. Picasso was poor and depressed so he painted poor and depressed people. +"The Blindman's Meal" -African Period: Interested in African Tribal Masks + "Les Demoiselles D'Avignon" > Singlehandedly altered the course of art - first "Modern" looking piece of art -Cubism: An attempt to create 3D on a 2D (Flat) surface, shows all sides of the object. + "Guernica" > Response to the bombing of Guernica, Spain during the Spanish Civil War > Shows the tragedies of war and the suffering it inflicts upon individuals > When asked by a German Nazi soldier "Did you (Picasso) do that?" he responded and said "No, you did." > Explanation of scene: Woman crying over baby, Bull's tail = smoke/flame, Dead soldier, Shattered sword/flower, stigma = symbol of martyrdom like the stigmata, lightbulb/eye = evil eye of war and the only piece of technology- it represents the bomb, "Bombilla" Spanish word for lightbulb, flame lit lamp - symbol of hope to clash with the bomb, figure on right in flames - hands suggest the shape of airplanes that dropped bombs. |
Day 3: Creative Drawing
Draw and color your own face in a cubist style. Add details to make it look like you.
Day 4: Creative Writing
Pick three of the quotes below by Picasso and write about your thoughts on them. Do you agree? Why? Do you disagree? Why? Can you explain the quote? How do you think Picasso feels about Art based on the quotes?
1.) I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
2.) All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
3.) It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
4.) We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
5.) The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
6.) Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
7.)The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
8.) It takes a long time to become young.
9.) To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
10.) Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
Pick three of the quotes below by Picasso and write about your thoughts on them. Do you agree? Why? Do you disagree? Why? Can you explain the quote? How do you think Picasso feels about Art based on the quotes?
1.) I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
2.) All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
3.) It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
4.) We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
5.) The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
6.) Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
7.)The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
8.) It takes a long time to become young.
9.) To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
10.) Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
Day 5: Quiz
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