Grade: 5.7 Print: Three Musicians, 1921, Oil on canvasOriginal Size: 6' 7" x 7' 3 3/4" (200.7 x 222.9 cm)Artist: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)Materials:

11 x 14 drawing paper Dice for students to share PICASSO FACE GAME

SHEET (at end of this doc.) FOR EACH STUDENT

Permanent black marker Tempera paints

Biography: Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. He is one of the most famous artists of the 20th Century and is well known for the variety of styles used in his work.

Picasso, along with George Braque, invented Cubism. In Cubist art, objects are analyzed, taken apart, and reassembled in an abstracted form.

Early cubism is known as Analytic Cubism. In Analytic Cubism, objects are depicted from several viewpoints at the same time. An example of Analytic Cubism is Picasso’s Violin and Candle.

Cubism is when an artist deconstructions a form – imagine taking apart a face and putting all the pieces in a blender, then putting the face back together. Eyes don’t always look the same, noses may not be where we expect them to be.

Pablo Picasso, Violin and Candle, 1910

Pablo Picasso, Three Musicians, 1921

Presentation + Questions to ask the children: How many figures do you see in the painting? Look at the shapes in the painting. Are the edges of most shapes

straight or curved? Can you locate the instruments, eyes, noses? Does this look like a puzzle?

Related Art Project: Students will a Picasso like face using the dice and game sheet. Picasso face game sheet is at the end of this document.

Rolling the dice, the students will make their own Picasso face using black marker. When all the parts of the face have been added, have the students also add hair, neck and jewelry if they want. Students can then paint their faces with tempera paint.

Additional resources: http://www.pablopicasso.org/three-musicians.jsphttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picassohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Musicians

Vocabulary: draughtsman, cubism, analytic cubism, synthetic cubism, collage