Picasso, Pianos and Portraits!

 

The Year 4’s have been focusing on an interesting technique in Art and Design for the past few weeks, namely Cubism.

A few facts about Cubism:

• Cubism is a style of Art invented in 1907.
• It was a very different way of painting to anything that had been done before.
• In Cubism, an artist tried to show different views of the same object or person all together in one painting. When you look at a Cubist painting, you might see the front, side and back of the same object.
• Cubist artists tried to break an object or person up into different parts. This often made the painting look like it was made up of geometric shapes like cubes.

Pablo Picasso was one of the first artists to explore Cubism. He wanted to paint things that he felt, remembered and saw all in one painting. Some of his most famous creations are the guitar sculptures made of cardboard and sheet metal, and the painting The Weeping Woman. We used these two art works as inspiration to create our masterpieces.

Have a look at our beautiful paintings of Picasso’s guitar and portraits using pastels and the Cubism technique.

 

“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.” – Pablo Picasso

 

Ria du Plessis

Year 4 Coordinator