Picasso Vases

Creating & Making: Ceramic sculpture

Unit Focus: NGV International Exhibition: Picasso: Love & War 1935 - 1945: Life With Dora Maar

Essential Understanding

Artists are influenced by and reflect society, history, culture and their environment

Artists are often the drivers of change

An Inquiry into:

Artists’ observation and perception of the world in which they live

Entry Point Questions

·       Why and how has Picasso interpreted his subjects·
       How was Picasso influenced by the times and his relationship
·       Was Picasso influenced by other eras and movements
·       What media and techniques did Picasso use 
·       How did Picasso's artistic innovations change the course of 20th Art

Unit Outcome:

Studying, practising & applying Cubist principles through observation, drawing and ceramic construction to create a sculptured ceramic self portrait using slab, relief and painting techniques

Materials:

Keanes White raku clay, Vipond paints

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