Thursday, November 12, 2015

Pablo Picasso and Cubism

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the Bombing of Guernica by the German and Italian airforces at the command of the Spanish nationalist government during the Spanish Civil War.

Guernica
Cubist Portraits with Collage
Picasso Assignment 1:
Find a "Cubist" painting by Pablo Picasso and post it to your blog. Write a brief outline bio of who Picasso was. Then define Cubism (in your own words).
Then have your portrait taken in the LFAS Photo Studio (Side profile and front).

Information about Picasso: www.pablopicasso.org
Check out this fun Picasso link: http://www.picassohead.com/