1. DO YOU RECOGNIZE THIS CUBIST WALL HANGING?

2. What is Cubism? A movement in art started by Picasso and
Braque in the early 1900’s
*Characterized by breaking up a subject into geometric
shapes such as cones, spheres, squares

3. Cubism and Picasso Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon,
1907, oil on canvas,
8 feet x 7 feet 8 inches
(243.9 x cm),
in the Museum of Modern
Art, New York. This is
considered by many the
first cubist painting.
It was influenced by the
paintings by Paul Cézanne
and by the fauvists, as well
as by African sculptures.

4. Portrait of Picasso
During their close association
from 1909 to 1914, Pablo Picasso
and Georges Braque created Cubism,
the most influential art movement
of the 20th century.
On their canvases they presented
objects from various points of view,
flattened and broken into
individual planes.

5. How does Picasso use line to
Create this portrait?
Head of a Woman, 1924
Picasso

6. Self Portrait, cubist period

7. What are the characteristics of these works?

8. France(1883-1956) Woman with hat watercolor on paper 23X 16 cm 1913
JEAN METZINGER

9. EXAMPLES OF STUDENT WORK