Picasso Style Guitar Collages

 

Students completed a still life drawing of a guitar before cutting up a copy of their drawing to create a collage in the style of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) using techniques of the Cubist style. Cubist painters took apart their subject matter and re-assembled it in abstracted form. Guitars were a favourite subject of Picasso. His guitar collages included cut pieces of paper including wallpaper, newspaper and sand paper. 

Guitar, Sheet Music, and Wine Glass
Pablo Picasso. 1912.

Image from http://communitas.princeton.edu/blogs/modernart

My grade 5 and 6 students used the following criteria to complete their collage:

Using the Pablo Picasso paintings and collages for inspiration, create your own collage from your guitar still life drawing. You must use at least 3 of these things:

- Sheet music or newspaper

- String or wool

- Wood grain paper

- Brown paper or coloured paper 

- Patterned paper  

and at least 1 of these mediums: 

- Watercolours

- Oil Pastels
- Permanent markers or textas

Circus Paintings

These grade 3 students interpreted the circus themed paintings 'Leaning Harlequin' by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and 'Acrobat' by Marc Chagall (1887-1985) as part of a circus theme we were working on.

Picasso's Harlequin

Chagall's Acrobat