6th Grade - Its a Square, Square World - 1-4-11

 Pablo Picasso - Still Life with Cherries

Warm Up : 

How do we break down an image when we first begin to sketch it?

Vocab:

Pencil: A dry medium made out of graphite. Often used in other subjects for a writing tool. 

Medium: A tool that can be either dry or wet used in the creation of art.

Cubism: A Style of Art that breaks the image down into basic shapes that are often squares.

Pablo Picasso: Passed away in 1971.

The Assignment: 

GLE: 

The student will create an interior space piece in pencil using square forms.They will look at the artist Pablo Picasso and cubism to gain an understanding of square 2 dimensional forms.

SPI: 

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6.6.spi.2 6.6.spi.3 6.1.spi.1 6.1.spi.4 6.1.spi.5 6.2.spi.1 6.3.spi.2 6.5.spi.2

The Artist: 

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso was born and raised in Spain but later moved to France. He is one of the founding fathers of the art style known as Cubism. He had a long and fruitful art career working in the a variety of different mediums such as pencil, ceramic, oil paint, and print making. He is described as being ahead of his time as an artist even after his death in 1971.

Our Source Image of the week:

Today's Mission: 

We will begin to transfer our sketch of our interior space using the image provided above. It uses our shape of the week, the square, along with its cousin the rectangle through out the image. 

Make sure to pay close attention to the demo of our weeks' medium, pencil, so you can understand how the image is supposed to be completed so you can do the same yourself.