What are Picasso’s secrets? And what does the Art of Repetition have to do with not copying yourself? Find out here.
This video reveals THREE SECRETS to Picasso’s success as an EXPERIMENTAL artist that can be grasped by artists young and older. It includes visits to two museum exhibits of Picasso’s works - in Barcelona and Warsaw - thus demonstrating how museum visits can be integrated into student learning.
The activities in this video are ideally suited to middle school and high school art students, and teachers making their own artworks, or young artists - though I have successfully taught this with students as young as 10 years of age (as shown in the video).
As it is all about Picasso’s experimental method as an artist, the lesson and activity are ideal for student-centered, choice-based, and Teaching for Artistic Behaviors (T.A.B.) classrooms.
The video concludes with a step-by-step experimental art activity that can be used in the classroom, in your art studio, or anywhere at home that you have a work table, drawing paper, and 90 minutes!
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ARTISTS:
The artists featured are Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Diego Velázquez (1599-1660), students at The American Elementary School in Gdynia, Poland, and Rob Garrett (Rob the Art Teacher).
PICTURE & VIDEO CREDITS:
Photos of Picasso’s artworks are courtesy of Museo Picasso Barcelona and Muzeum Narodowe Warszawa (The National Museum in Warsaw, Poland).
Photos and videos of students at work and their artworks were taken by Rob the Art Teacher when working with students at The American Elementary School in Gdynia, Poland.
Diego Velázquez, “Las Meninas” (1656), courtesy of The Prado, Madrid.
The sequence of “Tree” paintings shown in the demonstrations from my own studio are ©Rob Garrett 2023 and 2024.
The catalogue shown in the video is “Picasso’s Las Meninas” (La rueda de Festos), by Claustre Rafart I Planas, 1 March 2010, paperback, published by Editorial Meteora SL.
Book extract: “In 1950 Picasso and Sabartés had a discussion about art. Picasso made a premonitory statement: "If one set out to copy Las Meninas in all good faith, let's say, when one got to a certain point and if the person doing the copying were me, I'd say: 'How about putting that girl a little more to the right or the left?' I'd try to do it in my own way, forgetting Velázquez. Trying it out, I'd surely end up modifying the light or changing it, because of having changed the position of the figure. And so, little by little, I'd be painting meninas that would seem detestable to the professional copyist; they wouldn't be the ones the copyist would believe he'd seen in Velázquez's canvas, but they'd be 'my' meninas". Seven years later a new meninas would be born, Picasso's Las Meninas, a free interpretation that radically transformed the aesthetic language of Velázquez's work.”
This video includes stock video footage of people in the street ‘Carrer dels Banys Nous’, Barcelona: “barcelona_-_48688 (720p)” by Caelan Kelley from Pixabay at pixabay.com/videos/barcelona-...
MUSIC (intro and outro):
This video uses the music track “Misty Mountain Top” from the Microsoft Picture Editor audio library.