2nd, Picasso inspired Self-Portrait

This week at Art, 2nd graders learned about Pablo Picasso and started working on their self-portraits inspired by Cubism. We looked at examples of Picasso's paintings that he had done in different time period of his life. Some children found that cubist portraits were somewhat disturbing to look at and they couldn't understand why Cubism is significant in art history at first. However, after we learned Picasso introduced a radically different way of seeing and rendering a subject, we found his cubist portraits were more interesting and fun. We spent a lot of Art time discussing and analying Picasso's Art.