Art Topic: Year: 6 Strand: Drawing

Willerby Carr Lane Primary School - Art Topic: Year: 6 Strand: Drawing

What should I already know? Vocabulary • How to make different types of lines with graded pencils Cubism An art movement involving seeing one • How to draw the same object from different angles object from multiple perspectives at the same time. What will I know / be able to do by the end of the unit? distortion the alteration of the original shape of What is • Cubism brings together different something cubism? views of the subject (usually a person or object) from different viewpoints Guernica Guernica is a large 1937 oil painting on canvas by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. all at the same time. One of Picasso's best known works, • Who was Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was a Guernica is regarded by many art critics as Pablo Spanish artist, whose most famous one of the most moving and powerful Picasso and works include Guernica and The anti-war paintings in history. what were Weeping Woman. He is best known perspective the art of drawing solid objects on a some of his for developing the Cubism two-dimensional surface so as to give cubism movement. the right impression of their height, works? width, depth, and position in relation to How can I • Experiment with distorting facial each other when viewed from a make parts by transferring images from particular point different straight lined to curve lined grids. distortions Picasso Spanish artist (1881 -1973) of facial Self -portrait a portrait that an artist produces of parts? themselves How did • Look at Picasso’s work and discuss subject A person or object that is being Picasso how the different emotions are described convey conveyed e.g eye spacing and tears The The Weeping Woman is an oil on canvas emotion on The Weeping Woman. Picasso Weeping painted by Pablo Picasso in France in through his considered facial parts/angles Woman 1937 Cubism deliberately to convey emotion. pieces? Artist or Art Movement Can we • Use an A3 curved grid and allocated th work face part to create a group Picasso Picasso – Cubism (early 20 century) together to style portrait conveying a specific produce a emotion. Cubism portrait conveying emotion? How can we • Using front and side self photographs, use experiment with creating own Picasso photographs style self-portraits. Add colour using to create a a range of different media. Cubism self- portrait?

Art Skills and Techniques • Drawing objects in their original form and replicating with distortion on curved grid. • Analyse how emotion is conveyed through Cubism pieces • Experiment with drawing facial parts in different ways to convey emotion. • Work in a group to create a section of a Cubism portrait • Draw self-portraits using profile and front photographs. • Use block colour to build up portrait.