In this lesson the students combine observation, collage, and drawing. The students first create a collage of black and white print on which they draw a linear portrait in the style of Picasso. The collaged black and white print creates background in the style of the cubist movement. Students reference and look at portraits Picasso painted in his later works. They will observe that the faces he paints become a collection of shapes that represent facial features. After their portraits are drawn in black permanent marker, the facial planes are filled in with colorful oil pastel. Materials Heavy weight paper Scissors Newspaper Glue/Glue sticks Permanent Black Marker Oil Pastel ![]() Inspiration Pablo Picasso 1881-1973 Picasso displayed an interest in subject matter of every kind. Picasso was exceptionally prolific throughout his long lifetime. The total number of artworks he produced has been estimated at 50,000, comprising 1,885 paintings; 1,228 sculptures; 2,880 ceramics, roughly 12,000 drawings, many thousands of prints, and numerous tapestries and rugs. Picasso's early sculptures were carved from wood or modeled in wax or clay. Picasso abandoned modeling and instead made sculptural constructions using unconventional materials. Although his Cubist works approach abstraction, objects of the real world as subject matter were never completely unrecognizable. Prominent in his Cubist paintings are forms easily recognized as guitars, violins, and bottles. Picasso painted mostly from imagination or memory. In his paintings, Picasso used color as an expressive element, but relied on drawing rather than subtleties of color to create form and space. Picasso transformed the semiology (the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation) of painting and sculpture, expanding the way words, shapes, and objects could interact. He put ordinary objects in new situations that changed their nature. Many of his portraits are
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