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Pablo Picasso
Our 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
Featured Works were some of Picasso's lino-cuts:
Spanish Woman 1962 Pique, 1959 FamilyScene 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
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." ~ Pablo Picasso
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Information from: Artnet- North Carolina Museum of Art: The Arts in the Western Tradition (Archive)
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!
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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® (Block ads with FireFox or Mozilla browser)
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 ads with FireFox or Mozilla Browser)
Picasso Exhibition: Masterworks Fine Art Five pages of images. Includes etchings lithographs and lino-cuts - 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.
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.
Contemporary Artist:
Paul du Toit See the work of contemporary artist inspired by Picasso. Bronze sculptures, wood sculptures, welded sculptures and paintings.
