Head of Middle School Transformation @ WSS
KATRINA AXFORD
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THE picasso heads PROJECT

Lets learn about picasso....

In his lifetime Picasso made art about many different people and events. We remember Picasso as one of the most imaginative thinkers and artists of the 20th century. Some people hated the way he painted and others thought it was fantastic. Everyone had an opinion and noticed his work.
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Pablo Picasso was a famous Spanish artist. He lived in France for many years. When he was there he and Dora Maar fell in love. Although he lived to be very old this project is inspired by the ten years Picasso was in love with Dora. He became famous because his art work recorded the world and his feelings in new and unusual ways. Picasso's work is about different emotions and can make us feel ...

  • Happy
  • Sad
  • Excited
  • Confused
  • And sometimes even frightened...

​Picasso often painted people's portraits. Sometimes Picasso used photographs of Dora as a basis for his artworks. Dora has black hair & long painted fingernails.
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Dora can be found in paintings, prints, photographs and drawings. Dora took a lot of notice of Picasso's work.

Dora was a photographer. Photographs are a way of recording ideas, emotions and memories. She took many photographs of Picasso, the place they lived & their friends. Photographs are a way of making art. Dora changed the way things looked in her photographs. Her images of strange creatures were a new and exciting way of exploring the possibilities of photography. Picasso took a lot of notice of Dora's work.

PEOPLE

Picasso loved to paint people. He painted them in happy times and in sad times. He rearranged them and changed them, but you could still tell who was in the picture. There are people with...

  • Their chins and noses in the wrong place
  • Hats
  • Ice cream
  • Tears
  • Animal heads
  • Animal bodies
..and more
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Pointed profiles, Pain

Picasso is famous for his Weeping Women. They have pointed profiles and screaming mouths. The Weeping Women were sad because of the pain the war caused.
In these paintings the women look very flat.
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Picasso painted many Weeping Women, Dora was the model for some of them.
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Purple

Purple was often the colour Picasso used when painting Dora.
He painted using many different colours.
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He often used bright colours, especially when he was happy. When he painted about war he used darker colours.

Pencil, Pen, Pastel

Picasso made art in many different ways. He used pencil, pen, pastel, paint, charcoal and ink.

Although Picasso is best known for his paintings, he created prints and drawings as well.
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He was also a sculptor, a potter and even made costumes and scenery for plays.
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Palette, Paint, Paint brushes

When Picasso painted he used a variety of paint brushes and paint.

The palette was used to mix the paint.

You can see Picasso working using different sized brushes and canvases.

The biggest painting he ever painted was Guernica and he painted parts of it using a brush with a handle nearly as long as a broom!
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Passion

Picasso's passion became to show how war made people sad and ugly.
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The colours he has chosen are dull and dark.
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Peaceful

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Picasso wanted the world to be peaceful. The still life paintings are more peaceful and give us time away from the anger of war.
They have all sorts of objects in them. Some of the objects are signs or symbols, maybe a message from Picasso.
Some of the signs and symbols are a reminder of unhappy times and war.
Some have a candle in them. Candles have many meanings but can be a symbol of secret wishes, hope and love.
Pablo PICASSO (Spanish 1881–1973, worked in France 1904–73) Death's head, leeks and jug Paris, 16 March, 1945. Oil on canvas, 73.0 x 116.0 cm. Private collection, Paris. © Pablo Picasso/Succession Pablo Picasso, Paris. Licensed by Viscopy, Sydney 2006

Lets make digital Picasso heads....

Click here: http://www.picassohead.com/

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At Home: Make Pictures like Picasso

  • Draw or paint a portrait from a photograph
  • Take a photograph on a digital camera.
  • Experiment with distorting it or draw or paint on it
  • Collect photographs and think about the memories they hold
  • Collect a variety of materials and make a picture
  • Draw or paint on newspaper
  • Find a picture of a person, cut it into shapes and rearrange it, then draw and paint on it
  • Draw your own symbols for love and war
None of this was created by me, I have just adapted this for my teaching from the NGV at http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/picasso/pforpicasso/index.html. All orgininal resources can be found there.
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