Pablo Picasso: Cubist Portrait Assignment, Schemes and Mind Maps of Art

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Pablo Picasso

• Born in Spain
• Called a prodigy at the age of 14
• Father was a painter and art teacher

• Gertrude Stein, 1906 Self-portrait with Palette,

The Early Years

Lady in Blue, 1901

Moulin de la Galette, 1900 What elements of art are in these paintings?

Self-Portrait, 1901 The Old Guitarist, 1903

Which do you like better?

Rose Period 1904-1906 ~

characterized by pale pink & circus people.

Family of Saltimbanques, 1905 (^) Realistic or Abstract? Acrobat on a Ball, 1905

Beginnings of Cubism

• Admired Paul Cezanne
• Geometric forms
• Picasso and Braque were the leaders of Cubism
• Cubism -20th^ century art movement, in which artists depicted their subjects with multiple sides or facets. Made public mad…WHY?
• Analytic - breaking apart forms and “analysis” of objects
• Synthetic - later phase of cubism in which painted elements are combined with commonplace materials (like collage)

Picasso, Factory at Horta de Ebro, 1909

Cezanne, The Sea at L’ Estaque, 1879

Les Desmoiselles d’ Avignon

(Dam-wa-ZEL DAV-in-yon), 1907

• Represented first step toward the most important art movements of 20th century
• Friends were shocked by this artwork

The idea of 3D on a flat surface

Cat Catching a Bird, 1939

Analytical Cubism – objects so broken up you

can barley recognize the form!

Portrait of Ambroise Vollard, 1910 Portrait of Wilhelm Uhde, 1910

Other Cubists

Braque, Man with a Guitar, 1911

Juan Gris, Portrait of Picasso, 1912 Fernand Leger, The Wedding, 1911

Guernica, 1937

What do you see in this mural? What do you think influenced Picasso to make this? Do you think it made an impact on History?

(Civil War in Spain when German bombers attacked the small town… symbolized disgust about the cruelty of war.)

Head of a Woman with Green Nostrils on a Dark Blue Ground, 1938

Weeping Woman, 1937

Which do you like the most/least? Why?

Portrait de Sylvette, 1954

Distortions result from wanting to show everything on one canvas.