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Featured Artist: Pablo Picasso
Spanish Cubist Painter and Sculptor 1881-1973
This is a sample WebQuest page that goes with the Know the Artist lesson.
Begin with "Picasso
Polka" by Greg Percy - Songs in the Key of Art, Volume 1
(You can also download the mp3)
Featured
Works were some of Picasso's linocuts:
Spanish
Woman
1962
Pique,
1959 Family
Scene 1963
Timeline: Life of Picasso 1881 - 1973
1881: Picasso born in Málaga, Spain
1886: First modern Olympics is held in Athens, Greece
1896: Picasso enters Barcelona School of Fine Arts
1899: First magnetic recording of sound
1900-04: Picasso’s "Blue Period" – lived in France
1905: Albert Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity
1905-06: Picasso’s "Rose Period" –more upbeat reds and
pinks – Inspired by the Circus
1906: Picasso’s proto-cubism. Introduced to Georges
Braque in 1907.
1908-20: Picasso's Cubism Period– Inspired by Paul Cezanne. Picasso
sees African art at the Trocadero – inspired by African masks.
1914-18: World War I —1917:U.S. enters World War I
1914-20: Picasso paints in realist style. Some work shows the style of
surrealism.
1929: Museum of Modern Art opens in New York City. Stock
Market Crash October 29.--Great Depression
1930: Cubism and synthetic cubism-inspired by Marie Therese Walter
1937: Painted Guernica – portrayal of
the horrors of war.
1939-45: With arrival of World War II, Picasso works with death as a
subject
1945: U.S. Drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
Japan –ending World War II.
1940’s on-- Picasso's art based on those of the early masters. Works
in ceramics and printmaking. Makes reduction linoleum
popular.
1960:TV sets number 85 million in the US.
1963: President John F. Kennedy assassinated.
1968: With Lynden Johnson as President- the Viet
Nam War
escalates.
1969: Neil Armstrong walks on moon.
1973: Pablo Picasso passed away April 8
Information from:
Artnet-
North Carolina Museum of Art: The
Arts in the Western Tradition
Links- for more on the life and work of Picasso
On-line
Picasso Project—Chronology, biography, and lots of images of
Picasso's paintings. This site has many photographs of Picasso throughout
his life. Spend some time on this site to find out all the things about
Picasso you always wanted to know. Thumbnails of images on
home page take a while to load. But be careful, you could
get lost for hours!
Pablo
Picasso: Online Link to more of these quality sites recommended
by Artcyclopedia.
National
Gallery of Art- the Early Years The National Gallery provide an
on-line exhibit of some of Picasso's earliest works--showing his genius at
a very young age. This exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of
Picasso's art before cubism. See Teacher's
Guide for lesson plans and activities.
Pablo
Picasso's - Les Demoiselles d'Avignon Conserving a Masterpiece -
Web site from Museum of Modern Art (NY) goes into
the conservation process of this work.
Carol
Gerten's Fine Art. You will find
two pages scanned images of some of Picasso's
most important works as well as a biography from Microsoft Encarta®
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Mark
Harden Artchive: You will also find authoritative information
about the styles of Picasso's painting/work. Links to images found on the
Web for each time period in Picasso's life (block
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Picasso
Matisse Linocut Five pages of images - including
linocuts, etchings, posters and ceramics. Does have several mature
themes. Chronology
with several photographs
Picasso
Exhibition: Masterworks Fine Art Five pages of
images. Includes etchings lithographs and linocuts - Fine art prints.
Pablo
Picasso: The Official Site (in French, English and Spanish). Older
students (middle school and above) may find this site interesting.
Print is very small for the biographical information.
Treasures
of the World: Guernica PBS site. "It is modern art's most
powerful antiwar statement... created by the twentieth century's most
well-known and least understood artist."
Olga's
Gallery - Six pages of images. Includes many self portraits (one very early
portrait from 1896) and biography
with links to more information. 260 images - not all suitable for
children. This site has pop-up ads in Internet Explorer - Mozilla blocks
the ads
Guernica Cover Up
News article. The
tapestry reproduction, which hangs outside the entrance to the UN Security
Council, was initially covered on Jan. 27. A UN spokesman said a blue
curtain provided a better background for cameras covering news conferences
and speeches.
Lesson
Plans and Activities:
Mr. Picasso Head -
Interactive. Choose your face shape, eyes, nose and such -
change colors, sizes, flip and rotate, too. (Note: the
gallery does not always have appropriate content - do not allow students
to browse). Preview first to insure site is suitable.
Lesson
Plans and Lesson Ideas
Contemporary
Artist:
Paul
du Toit See the work of contemporary artist
inspired by Picasso. Bronze sculptures, wood sculptures,
welded sculptures and paintings.
