6th Grade: All mixed up - Creating cubist abstract portraits like Picasso in oil pastel.

Dora Mar

by. Pablo Picasso

Warm Up: 

Describe to me a person you know. How do they look? Are they tall? What does their face look like? 

Remember to use descriptive words we have used in class other then the person is cool or nice. 

Vocab:

• Portrait
• Self Portrait
• Contrast
• Narrative 
• Cubism
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Reading

P.38 to 39

Artist of the Week: 

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. 

GLE: 

Students this week you will create a mixed up cubist portrait using the style of Pablo Picasso's Cubist Portraits as a guide in oil pastel.

Today's Mission: 

Sketch! 

Students in your art journal you will take your description of the person you wrote about today as a guide for your cubist portrait sketch. 

How do we make a cubist portrait? 

Well let's take a look at Picasso's Cubist Portrait of his daughter.... 

Remember how we have in the past with all of our images that they have been broken down into shapes but this time we are not adding detail! We are keeping the portrait mixed up and broken down into our shapes! Picasso does it here with this portrait and now you are going to do the same! 

Remember! The portrait is not supposed to look real here! We are breaking down the image like we have done in the past but without adding the details back into the portrait!