The Evolution of Pablo Picasso

Writing about art

The Evolution of Pablo PicassoWriting about art

Objective: You will analyze the art of Picasso in order to select and apply vocabulary to write about art.

1. We are sharing the descriptions of Picasso in 20 minutes. (Do it now??)

2. You can share your whole reading and post it on Edmodo to the group for full points.

55 pts- Share all to class– post to class- use the slides

45 pts- Share some out loud, use slides- post to Gauger or class.

40 pts- Share with Gauger only in private, use the slides- Post to Gauger.

3. How many vocabulary words to you have?

Next class

• Bring every concentration piece that you have for Friday and Tuesday.

• You will write about your concentration.

• Art must be here for Group Critique on Tuesday and you will use your description that you write.

Writing about Art• Objective: You will analyze the art of Picasso in order

to select and apply vocabulary to write about art.

• DIRECTIONS: Get sketchbook and iPad please.

1. This week we are going to focus on writing about art. 1. By Wednesday- Write about Picasso’s

Evolution.-in sketchbook.2. By Friday- Rough draft about your

concentration.-in sketchbook.2. Work on Concentration Pieces in the meantime. 3. Our group critique with AP photo is Tuesday,

March 31 in rm 231 and period 4A in Shop 5 on April 1st.

Use this link and this power point:PABLO PICASSO The Most Famous Artist of the 20th Century

• http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/cubism/Pablo-Picasso.html

• Write about his work as if it is yours.• Describe his style through at least 3 of his “periods”.• How does it change? What changes?• How does the art make you feel? What would you be

thinking if you were creating the art?• Describe the lines, the colors, the shapes?• Detail vs simplicity. Realistic vs abstract.• Compositional balance; focal point; repetition; contrast.

Full Name:

• Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Clito Ruiz y Picasso

Biography• Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born on October 25, 1881 to Don

José Ruiz Blasco (1838-1939) and Doña Maria Picasso y Lopez (1855-1939). The family at the time resided in Málaga, Spain, where Don José, a painter himself, taught drawing at the local school of Fine Arts and Crafts. Pablo spent the first ten years of his life there. The family was far from rich, and when 2 other children were born -- Dolorès ("Lola") in 1884 and Concepción ("Conchita") in 1887 -- it was often difficult to make ends meet. When Don José was offered a better-paid job, he accepted it immediately, and the Picassos moved to the provincial capital of La Coruna, where they lived for the next four years. In 1892, Pablo entered the School of Fine Arts there, but it was mostly his father who taught him painting. By 1894 Pablo’s works were so well executed for a boy of his age that his father recognized Pablo’s amazing talent, and, handing Pablo his brush and palette, declared that he would never paint again.

The beginning

The Blue Period

• Restless and lonely, the artist moved constantly between Paris and Barcelona, depicting isolation, unhappiness, despair, misery of physical weakness, old age, and poverty; all of it in shades of blue. In the allegorical La Vie (1903), in monochrome blue, the man has the face of his deceased friend.

The Rose Period • By 1905, Picasso lightened his

palette, relieving it with pink and rose, yellow-ochre and gray. His circus performers, harlequins and acrobats became more graceful, delicate and sensuous. In 1906 the art dealer Ambroise Vollard bought most of Picasso’s “Rose” pictures. This marked the beginning of Picasso's prosperity: he would never again experience financial worries. Deeply impressed by the Iberian sculptures at the Louvre, he began to think over and experiment with geometrical forms.

Cubism

Cubism: 1907-1917

• “Cubism is no different from any other school of painting. The same principles and the same elements are common to all. The fact that for a long time cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it, means nothing. I do not read English, and an English book is a blank to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist, and why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about?” - Picasso

Cubism• In Cubist paintings, objects are broken apart

and reassembled in an abstracted form, highlighting their composite geometric shapes and depicting them from multiple, simultaneous viewpoints in order to create physics-defying, collage-like effects. At once destructive and creative, Cubism shocked, appalled and fascinated the art world. "It made me feel as if someone was drinking gasoline and spitting fire," Braque said, explaining that he was shocked when he first viewed Picasso's "Les Demoiselles," but quickly became intrigued with Cubism, seeing the new style as a revolutionary movement.

African Period

• In 1907, after numerous studies and variations Picasso painted his first Cubist picture - “Les demoiselles d’Avignon”. Impressed with African sculptures at an ethnographic museum he tried to combine the angular structures of the “primitive art” and his new ideas about cubism. The critics immediately dubbed this stage in his work the African Period, seeing in it only an imitation of African ethnic art.

African Period

• Picasso’s new experiments were received very differently by his friends, some of whom were sincerely disappointed, and even horrified, while others were interested

“Les demoiselles d’Avignon”

Analytical Cubism

• “Analytical” Cubism: he gives up a central perspective and splits forms up into facet-like stereo-metric shapes. The famous portraits of Fernande, Woman with Pears, and of the art dealers Vollard and Kahnweiller are fulfilled in the analytical cubist style.

Analytical Cubism

Synthetic or Collage Cubism

• Picasso and Braque discovered that through the repetition of "analytic" signs their work became more generalized, more geometrically simplified and flatter. Overlapping planes sometimes shared one color (passage). Real pieces of paper replaced painted flat depictions of paper.

Synthetic or Collage Cubism

• Real scores of music replaced drawn musical notation. Fragments of newspaper, playing cards, cigarette packs, and advertisements that were either real or painted interacted on the flat plane of the canvas as the artists tried to achieve a total interpenetration of life and art.

Classicism

After cubism, Picasso returned to more traditional patterns -- if not exactly classical ones -- and this period is thus known as his Classicist period. A typical example of this new style is The Lovers. From time to time, he would return to cubism.

Surrealism

• Much of his work after 1927 is fantastic and visionary in character. His Woman with Flower (1932) is a portrait of Marie-Thérèse, distorted and deformed in the manner of Surrealism. The Surrealism movement was growing in strength and popularity at the time, and even Picasso could not really avoid being influenced by this group of Parisian artists, although they, conversely, regarded him as their artistic stepfather.

• “I keep doing my best not to lose sight of nature. I want to aim at similarity, a profound similarity which is more real than reality, thus becoming surrealist,” Picasso wrote.

WartimeThe Spanish government had asked Picasso to paint a mural for the Spanish pavilion at the Paris World Exhibition. He planned to depict the subject “a painter in his studio”, but when he heard about the events in Guernica, he changed his original plans. After numerous sketches and studies, Picasso gave his own personal view of the tragedy. His gigantic mural Guernica has remained part of the collective consciousness of the twentieth century, a forceful reminder of the event. Though painted for the Spanish government, it wasn't until 1981, after forty years of exile in New York, that the picture found its way to Spain

“Guernica”

The Late Works

A number of elements had become characteristic in his art of this period: Picasso’s use of simplified imagery, the way he let the unpainted canvas shine through, his emphatic use of lines, and the vagueness of the subject. In 1956, the artist would comment, referring to some schoolchildren: “When I was as old as these children, I could draw like Raphael, but it took me a lifetime to learn to draw like them.”

How do these bull’s evolve? What changes?

Use this link and this power point:PABLO PICASSO The Most Famous Artist of the 20th Century

• http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/cubism/Pablo-Picasso.html

• Write about his work as if it is yours.• Describe his style through at least 3 of his “periods”.• How does it change? What changes?• How does the art make you feel? What would you be

thinking if you were creating the art?• Describe the lines, the colors, the shapes?• Detail vs simplicity. Realistic vs abstract.• Compositional balance; focal point; repetition; contrast

Timeline for writing about art:

• By Wednesday, Describe Picasso’s evolution through at least 3 periods. Write as it you are Picasso. Describe your art.

• By Friday, Write a rough draft that describes the first 3-5 pieces of your concentration. Answer the questions on the next slide.

Question to answer as Picasso for a concentration:• What is the central idea of your concentration?

• How does the work in your concentration demonstrate the exploration of your idea?

• You may refer to specific images as examples. When referencing specific images, please indicate the image numbers. (use the year and artwork title)

http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/exam/exam_information/2134.html?affiliateId=APSamp&bannerId=st2d

• http://www.quotes-famous-artists.org/picasso-pablo-quotes

Watch this video:

• Pablo Picasso's Portraits of Women - Evolution of Picasso's Painting Masterpieces

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y_rb-sFxR4

• Write about his work as if it is yours.• How does it change? What changes?• What are you thinking or feeling?• Describe the lines, the colors, the shapes?• Detail vs simplicity.

• http://www.biography.com/people/pablo-picasso-9440021

• Video of his life on this page.