Introduction to Cubism

Realism vs Abstract

• Realistic Art is an accurate representation of a subject. It may resemble a photograph.

• Abstract Art is not realistic. It may represent an idea, story or feeling in many other ways.

Cubism

• Cusbism is an art movement from the early 20th century. Cusbist artists created abstract artworks that viewed the subject from many angles at once. The idea was not to portray the subject realistically, but to show the essence of the subject, the feeling of the subject.

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Pablo Picasso

• Born in Spain in 1881, son of an art teacher.• Picasso created art in many styles, but is credited as

one of the foremost cubist painters.• Picasso bought a house in Vallauris in South France.• In 1954 he met a shy teenager named Sylvette David

who was the subject of 40 paintings and sculptures called “The Girl with the Ponytail”.

• Picasso produced over 30,000 original artworks. He died in 1973 at 92 yrs old.

• He was one of the most famous artist in the world.

• Read “Picasso and the Girl with the Ponytail”.

Shattered Values

• Shattered Values Assignment • Instructions

• 1. Draw a simple outline drawing of an object.

• 2. “Shatter” the subject by breaking it up with lines, shapes or patterns of some sort. These lines will overlap your first drawing. (There are numerous methods you can use. Be creative. Think of various ways that lines break up objects: shattered glass, wavy lines of water, spiral lines as seen on a snail shell, geometrical divisions of shapes.) The objective is to create more shapes within your drawing, like a giant puzzle.

• 4. Focus on each individual shape you have created and apply the entire range of value, from black to light gray, as you did on the “Shading Practice” Worksheet. Proceed from shape to shape, deciding which part should be the richest black and which should be the lightest gray. You need to vary the direction of your shading inside your object from that outside your object in order to emphasize it.

• 5. Fill the entire paper with values using the solid shading method.

• 6. The final product will be graded on range of values, smooth transitions in shading, creativity, clarity of “shatter lines” and object representation.

Value Transitions

• For Solid Shading– Smooth transitions– Wide range of value

• What to avoid– Blocking or chunking of transitions– Obvious pencil lines, hatching– Low range of value