Still Life With a Skull

STILL LIFE WITH A STEER’S SKULL, Pablo Picasso, April 5, 1942 

Still Life with Bull's Skull (Bulls Skull, Fruit, Pitcher), Pablo Picasso, 1939 
Oil on canvas 

This term Year 5 students were introduced to Picasso's Cubism works and they learnt a few interesting facts about him, such as having a super long name due to Spanish naming customs. Pablo Picasso was one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century. His  painting style changed many times throughout his career, and he produced a range of images, from classical figures to radical abstractions.  The Cubism art movement is a semi-abstract style that tries to express the artist's sense of structure by arranging on his canvas the geometrical  elements of shapes from objects in reality. Basically this means that the artist wanted to break down the image to a more simplified and basic shape with strong lineal/geometric representation. Year 5 were challenged to respond to Picasso's works by also attempting to draw their still life not as they saw it, but to break it down to geometric shapes or more simplified, while ensuring that their audience would still be able to identify what the still life objects were in real life. They also explored how Picasso painted directly onto  the canvas, mixing and blending in varied strokes and they also experimented with this technique in their own style using paint and oil pastels. They then developed their work further by adding collage. This work is still in progress and almost completed. Below are some images of completed works from the first stage. Please follow this link to view the works in full  http://snack.to/fztj2phv

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