Monday Course description

Tuesday Picasso Perceptions

Wednesday Still life Drawing

Thursday Studying and Creating Art

Friday Studying and Creating Art

AGENDA: 1-23-2012 to 1-27-2012

DIPSTICKS!

Your first and last name and class period

Statement of praise!

Side 1

Side 2

How would you complete the following prompt?

Art is………………..

Be prepared to share.

What does it mean to perceive?

What senses do we utilize in order to perceive?

• Sight• Sound • Touch• Taste• Smell

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973)Large Still-Life with a Pedestal Table. 1931. Oil on canvas. 195 130.5 cm (763/4 513/8).Musée Picasso, Paris, France. Photo: © 2005 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society(ARS), New York.

Discovering the Artwork

Take a few minutes to carefully study the artwork. Then answer the following questions based on the visual clues you see.1. Identify colors and shapes

that you see in the painting.2. What are some objects from

everyday life that you can identify in the painting?

3. How do these objects look different from objects you have seen recently?

Make Connections and Inferences• Have you ever drawn a still life? If so, what objects did you include? Why did you choose to include them?• Which parts of the painting make you think a human being is included in this still life?

Write to Describe Based on this painting, how would the rest of the room look? Write two or three paragraphs to describe the rest of the room. Think about the kinds of furniture that might be in the room. Also think about the colors and other decorations in the room.

About the Artist and the Work of Art

Pablo Picasso was one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. When he was still a teenager, he created very realistic paintings. Picasso went on to develop and work in many styles of modern art, including Cubism. Picasso was born in Spain. He moved to Paris, France, as a young man to begin his artistic career in the center of the art world.

In Large Still-Life with a Pedestal Table, Picasso shows a display of everyday objects. However, he challenges the viewers of this artwork. Some of the objects are not easy to recognize. The pedestal table named in the painting’s title can be hard to find. Look at the large yellow pitcher. It’s resting on a blue half-circle—the top of the table.

Everything in the composition is skewed, from the lines of the walls to the floors of the room. As you examine the objects in the painting, you might see a woman on the right side of the painting. The white shape on the right side could be a head shown in profile, with the nose on the left and open mouth on the right. This object also seems to be a pedestal dish that holds three pieces of fruit. The viewer can decide what he or she sees it as.

Think about the information presented in About the Artist and the Work of Art.

Combine that information with the visual clues you discovered earlier. Then respond to the following questions.1. Why do you think Picasso didn’t make the

objects in his painting easy to identify?

2. What does this painting tell you about Picasso as a person? Does he seem interested in depicting reality? Why or why not?