Picasso Cubist Self-Portraits

Pablo Picasso, a Spanish artist was know as a co-creator of Cubism. Cubism is s style of art in which the images look abstract.  The images are often incomplete or simplified into geometric shapes and forms.  There is very little defined space in Cubism.  There are often more than one points of view within one specific work of art, such as a frontal and profile of the same face.

Our fifth grade students enjoyed stepping into Picasso's shoes and creating Cubist artwork.  The funny thing is that I had to remind them not to over-think what they were drawing.  It seems that sometimes abstract art can be more difficult to create than realistic art. I think their translations of the idea turned out to be very successful.