Picasso portraits

I immediately told 3rd graders that this project was all about UNLEASHING their craziest selves! 3rd grade is an awesome age group for this cubist self-portrait project because they aren’t af…

1)LA GIOCONDA - "La Gioconda", also known as "Mona Lisa", is an oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci, datable around… by trevid

4th Grade recently learned that cubism tries to show something from multiple angles in the same picture. They looked at some of Pablo Picasso’s paintings of faces and then attempted their ow…

Picasso inspired Portraits Step 1) Picasso, Abstract Art and Cubism For our first art lesson I chose a Picasso inspired project since the students have learned about the artist and Cubism in their arts unit already. As an introduction to our project the students watched a video about Picasso, Abstract Art and Cubism. I showed the student some of his portrait paintings and we talked about Picasso's abstract way of painting and expressing feelings by showing a face from two or more sides in…

“Femme au Béret et à la Robe Quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter),” from 1937, showed the continuing strength of Picasso in an auction at Sotheby’s.

The satirical intent behind many of Picasso’s portraits is striking in this exhibition

There are so many ways to teach Picasso portraits, I'm working with 3rd grade so I wanted to keep it simple. I'll show them some of Picasso's Portraits and then go into the project - demonstrating each step. I'm going to ask them to create diagonal folds, not even folds that create squares on their page, but more random folds. They should make about 5 folds and then using a ruler go over the fold lines with a sharpie. Looking at the lines on their page and turning it around from different…

STYLE, CUBED | Though partial to Breton stripes, Pablo Picasso looked laid-back and chic in...