School picture portraits with Picasso

Discussion: what is a portrait? 

What do you find in a portrait? 

Nose? Mouth? Shoulders? Ears? 

How do you draw a portrait? 

Now look at this portrait? What?????

What is up with her eyes? 

Why is her nose like that?

What about the background?

ARTIST: Pablo Picasso  (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973)

He was a Spanish painter and sculptor. 

He is one of the most recognized figures in 20th-century art. 

He is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. Picasso demonstrated uncanny artistic talent in his early years, 

He painted in a realistic manner through his childhood and adolescence; 

During the first decade of the twentieth century his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. 

Picasso’s creativity manifested itself in numerous mediums, including painting, sculpture, drawing, and architecture. His revolutionary artistic accomplishments brought him universal renown and immense fortunes throughout his life, making him the best-known figure in twentieth century art.

Project: create a picasso portrait using your school picture

Step1: draw a circle for a head on your small paper

Step2: add a neck and shoulders

Step3: cut out one eye and glue it to the small paper

Step4: cut out one ear and glue it somewhere on your face

Step5: cut out your mouth and glue it on your face

Step6: cut out your hair and glue it on your portrait

Step7: finih your portrait in oil pastel

Step8; Draw a pattern in the background

MATERIALS: 

2”x3” paper, tagboard

School pictures

Oil pastels

Abstract Portrait Collages with Picasso

Discussion:What is a portrait? 

What do you find in a portrait? 

Nose? Mouth? Shoulders? Ears? 

How do you draw a portrait? 

Now look at this portrait? What?????

What is up with her eyes? 

Why is her nose like that?

What about the background?

ARTIST: Pablo Picasso  (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973)

He was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. 

He is one of the most recognized figures in 20th-century art. 

He is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. Picasso demonstrated uncanny artistic talent in his early years, 

He painted in a realistic manner through his childhood and adolescence; 

During the first decade of the twentieth century his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. 

Picasso’s creativity manifested itself in numerous mediums, including painting, sculpture, drawing, and architecture. His revolutionary artistic accomplishments brought him universal renown and immense fortunes throughout his life, making him the best-known figure in twentieth century art.

Project: create a picasso portrait using your school picture

Step1: draw a circle for a head on your small paper

Step2: add a neck and shoulders

Step3: cut out one eye and glue it to the small paper

Step4: cut out one ear and glue it somewhere on your face

Step5: cut out your mouth and glue it on your face

Step6: cut out your hair and glue it on your portrait

Step7: finish your portrait in oil pastel

Step8: Draw a pattern in the background

MATERIALS: 

2”x3” paper, tagboard

School pictures

Oil pastels

Cubism Portraits with Picasso

Discussion: Cubism

Analytic Cubism, was both radical and influential as a short but highly significant art movement between 1907 and 1911 in France. 

In cubist artworks, objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form—Artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context. 

Analytic Cubism was an analysis of the subjects (pulling them apart into planes), 

Synthetic Cubism was the second main movement within Cubism that was developed by Picasso, Braque, Juan Gris and others between 1912 and 1919. 

Synthetic cubism is characterized by the introduction of different textures, surfaces, collage elements

Synthetic Cubism is more of a pushing of several objects together.

Synthetic Cubism has fewer planar shifts, and less shading, creating flatter space.
for additional information about cubism; please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubism


ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973)

He was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. 

He is one of the most recognized figures in 20th-century art. 

He is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. Picasso demonstrated uncanny artistic talent in his early years, 

He painted in a realistic manner through his childhood and adolescence; 

During the first decade of the twentieth century his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. 

Picasso’s creativity manifested itself in numerous mediums, including painting, sculpture, drawing, and architecture. His revolutionary artistic accomplishments brought him universal renown and immense fortunes throughout his life, making him the best-known figure in twentieth century art.

for additional information; please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso

MATERIALS:

                Pencils

Wooden Geometric shapes

Oil pastels

PROJECT:   Use Picasso’s Weeping Woman 19 as inspiration for your shape portrait

Students explore shapes. WRITE YOUR NAME ON YOUR PAPER

Step1: Look at the portrait and try to find or make geometric shapes

Step2: use the block shapes to begin to create your work

Step3: trace the shapes onto your white paper

Step4: Use black sharpie to out line where you would like

Step5: fill in with bright oil pastels

Step6: add one pattern into the background, stripes, lines, dots, etc...

Step7: clean your mess.

CONCLUSION: revisit Picasso’s time line

Vocabulary words: Analytic cubism: planes, broken up objects

Synthetic Cubism: Texture, collage, pushing objects together, flat.

EVALUATION: 

Were students able to recreate Picasso’s Weep ing Woman 19 from geometric shapes?

Were students able to participate in a conversation about cubism and it’s two forms

Did Students follow Picasso’s Time line and relate it to other art studied during that period? 
additional student examples:

Porportion Portraits with Van Gogh (ASAP)

DISCUSSION: Portraits

What is a portrait?

Have you ever had one made of yourself? Yes, school photo is a portrait

What does a portrait need to be a portrait?

a PERSON!!!

What does a person have on their face?

eyes, nose hair, mouth, ears, eyebrows, cheeks, etc..

What is an ALL STUDENT ART PROJECT (ASAP)?

What do you think that means

have you made on before?

How do you think it gets used?

VAN GOGH

Vincent  van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890)

Dutch Post-Impressionist painter 

His work had a far-reaching influence on 20th century art

Known for his  vivid colors and emotional impact. 

Van Gogh did not begin painting until his late twenties

most of his best-known works were produced during his final two years. 

He produced more than 2,000 artworks, consisting of around 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches. 

His work was a strong influence on the Modernist art that followed. 

Today many of his pieces—including his numerous self portraits, landscapes, portraits and sunflowers—are among the world's most recognizable and expensive works of art.

Known for his paint application creating texture and movement.

He died largely unknown, at the age of 37

sold only one painting while he was alive

for additional information please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh

Project: Students will create a self portrait on a 2x3 piece of paper to be used in the ASAP

Step1: pencil: Draw a circle for your head

Step2: draw two lines for your neck and some shoulders

Step3: Draw in smaller circles for your 2 eyes

Step4: draw in a nose any shape: triangle, line, L

Step5: draw in your mouth: curved line, circle, oval...up to you

Step6: Draw in your hair in your hair color

Step7: ears, eyebrows, any details head band, etc

Step8: fill in using oils pastels

Step9: don't for get to fill in your background color our pattern

MATERIALS:

                oil pastels

2x3 paper

pencils

Blind Contour Cubism Portraits with Picasso

Discussion:   

Contour line

Cubism

Blind contour

Still life

Portrait

Line

Geometric Shape

Organic shape

Complementary colors

Cool colors Warm Colors
Rules of Blind Contour: 

Do not look at your paper

Start at the top of the object

Follow the object with your eyes and move your hand as your eye moves

Do not pick up your pencil for the duration of the drawing time

If you finish go over the shape again until time runs out

Picasso: 

1881-1973

Spanish painter, sculpture, printmaker, ceramicist, and illustrator

Father of cubism

Father was an art teacher

Attended academy of fine arts in Barcelona

Left for Paris a year after and painted the poor on the street is blue tones

1904 began to paint happy circus performers in pink tones

Studied Gauguin’s work, began experimenting with distortion

1907 collaborated with Braque to produce Cubism

Cubists try to show all sides of an object at once using geometric forms

PROJECT: 

Draw blind contour cubist style portraits

Spend thirty+ minutes practicing blind contour several times with time limits

      use the rules of Blind Contour listed above

Step1: draw a blind contour drawing of a front facing portrait

Step2: ON THE SAME PAPER: draw a blind contour drawing of the profile right on top of the front facing portrait

Step3: Finish this piece next week by filling in with colors in the shapes created.

Materials: 

Pencils

Oil pastels

Rouault Stain Glass Portraits

DISCUSSION: 

Portrait: drawing of the face

Go over the face and where things fall on the face

Proportion

Complementary Colors? what are they? where do we find them?

what do they create in a work of art?

ARTIST: GEORGES ROUAULT (born May 27, 1871-Feb. 13, 1958, Paris) 

French painter.

His apprenticeship in a glazier's shop restoring medieval stained glass (1885 – 90) influenced his mature style as a painter. 

After an early academic period, his style evolved toward Fauvism before he established a highly personal form of Expressionism. 

An ardent Roman Catholic, he painted subjects apparently fallen from grace tragic clowns, and pitiless judges. 

After 1914 his subject matter became more specifically religious, with greater emphasis on redemption, 

He shifted from watercolor to oil. 

His layers of paint became thick and rich, his forms simplified, and his colors and black lines reminiscent of stained glass.

In the 1930s he produced a splendid series on Christ's Passion, while reworking many earlier paintings. 

His series of clowns in the 1940s are virtual self-portraits. 

He also produced many engravings as well as ceramics, tapestry designs, and stained glass.

PROJECT: 

Step1: gather supplies

Step 2: draw a portrait on your page do you best to place thing s accordingly

Step3: begin by mixing complementary colors and see what new color you make add in some flour

Step 4: lighten and darken those new colors by adding in white and black

Step 5: Use your new colors to color in your portrait

Step6: color in your background

Step7: fill in your line in black so your portrait gives of the appearance of stained glass

Step 8: clean you mess

MATERIALS:

Brown paper

Pencils

Paint

Water 

Brushes

Flour for paint