Kindergarten & 1st graders are ROCKING PICASSO's Blue Period and learning about the 3 Musicians with these cool collages! Their favorite part...is "READING" the music. I pulled up some familiar tunes that they knew and we are making mini music books to hang with their pieces...I cant get them all put together yet...because they will not quit reading and singing them... :)!! They love these pieces....they totally ROCK!
5th Grade is in the middle of making sculptures of the Rooster! We are using tin for these sculptures and they are going to look "tin-fiffic"!
3rd & 4th are making Picasso Pigs with paper mache. Yes...we hope these pigs will fly!! More photos to come and power points as our pieces develop!
READING & WRITING PIECE: Have them work in small groups to read, discuss & answer the questions on the form below.
Pass out the Mr. Picasso Head sheet. Have them think about the Picasso reference in the movie Toy Story and discuss. Pass out marker buckets and have them design their own Picasso potato head.
Pablo Picasso was
born in Málaga, Spain. His father, Jose Ruiz Blasco, was an artist and art
professor who gave Pablo art lessons. His mother was Maria Picasso y Lopez.
According to his mother, his first word was “piz” when he was trying to say
“lápiz,” the Spanish word for pencil.
Picasso
was not a good student. He often had to go to detention. Here’s what he said
about it.
“For being a bad student I was banished to the ‘calaboose’ – a bare cell with
whitewashed walls and a bench to sit on. I liked it there; because I took along
a sketch pad and drew incessantly … I could have stayed there forever drawing
without stopping”
When he
was nine, Picasso finished his first painting, Le picador. It shows a man on a
horse at a bullfight. When he started painting, he used a realistic style. He
began to experiment with different techniques and styles. When he was 13, he
was admitted to the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, Spain. When he was 16,
Picasso’s father and uncle decided to send him to Madrid’s Royal Academy of San
Fernando. This was Spain’s top art school. He did not like formal instruction
and soon stopped going to classes. He loved Madrid and enjoyed going to The
Prado museum to see paintings by famous Spanish painters. He particularly liked
El Greco’s work.
In
1900, Picasso went to Paris. He met Max Jacob, a journalist and poet. Max
helped Picasso learn to speak French. He also met many of the famous artists
who lived in Paris. In 1905, American art collectors Leo and Gertrude Stein
began to collect his work and helped to make him famous.
Picasso's work is divided
into periods - The Blue
Period (1901-1904), which
were sad looking paintings using blue and blue-green colors.
The Rose Period (1905-1907), which
was a more happy style with orange and pink colors. The African-influenced Period (1908-1909)
and The Cubism Period (1909- 1919)
He and
Georges Braque invented Cubism, a form of painting that featured simple
geometric shapes. He is also known for making collages – gluing previously
unrelated things together with images. He created oil paintings, sculpture,
drawings, stage designs, tapestries, rugs, etchings, collage, and architecture.
No other painter or sculptor was as famous while he was still alive. It is
estimated that Picasso produced at least 50,000 works of art: 1,885 paintings;
1,228 sculptures; 2,880 ceramics, roughly 12,000 drawings, many thousands of
prints, and numerous tapestries and rugs. He also wrote plays and poetry. He
became very wealthy.
Some of
his famous paintings include: The Old Guitarist; Asleep and Seated Woman, which
portray Marie-Therese Walter, one of the women he loved; Guernica, a mural
about the Spanish Civil War; and Three Musicians.
He died
April 8, 1973 in Mougins, France.
Name: ___________________________________
Picasso quotes:
“I
paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. ”
“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows
up. ”
“He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t. This is an
inexorable, indisputable law. ”
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
Write 1 interesting fact about Picasso
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Write 1 interesting fact about Picasso.
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Why do you think Picasso is better known
then other artist of his era?
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Draw a sketch of one of Picasso’s art
pieces in this box.
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How would you describe Picasso’s art
work?
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What are two things that Picasso’s art
work makes you wonder?
1.
2.
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Name: ___________________________________
Draw your own Mr.
Picasso Head
To create these we used shaving cream and water color paints instead of actually painting our background. Love how these colors turned out and they looked so much like Monet's sunset above the water,
The students created their boats to collage on top of the water backgrounds. I am not sure what has happened to my final pictures that I took...but you get the idea. As I reflect, I think in my next attempt...I will use scrapbook paper or fabric to create the sails. 
Here some of my 3rd graders did Monet's Waterlilies using finger prints and adding a bridge on top. We looked at how he did his brush strokes to paint his piece. They are lovely.
