Art Curriculum- Week 16- Cubist Self Portraits

Week 16- Cubist Self Portraits

Our last lesson was on Surrealism. To view it click here.

Movement: Cubism

What you will need:

-photos
-A basic photo editing system
-glue

Time: 30 minutes

Prep was the most time consuming part. I saved 6 copies of each child's photo and cropped each one separately to zoom in on certain areas and zoom out on others. Then I copied and pasted the cropped images into a word document and sized them down to what I thought was appropriate. I had a separate folder and document for each child.

• I showed them different pictures of cubism and explained the basic concept of magnifying certain parts of a subject that the artist thought were important.
• Each child got a full page of their picture blown up and a separate sheet of paper with their cropped images that they had to cut out.
• Then it was a simple matter of placing their "pieces" on the page. I told them they could position the pieces however they wanted to (ex. upside down, to the side) as long as they put it by the original image. So the big foot would go by the feet, not the head.

Here are the finished beauties!

Overall: Easy, simple, and the kids really enjoyed it which was a relief to me because Cubism is such a strange movement to teach to kids!

(logging 1 1/2 hours for prep and execution)