Picasso+and+the+Modern+Revolution+Spring+2013

April 20, 2013 9:30AM–3:30PM Ryan Education Center $50; 5 CPDUs

Pablo Picasso is one of the most important artists of his generation. Together with George Braque, he pioneered Cubism and collage, two practices that revolutionized Modernist art of the 20th century and continue to influence the art and thinking of our time. [|Picasso and Chicago], the first major Art Institute exhibition of this eminent artist in 30 years, presents a rare opportunity to examine the full gamut of Picasso’s artistic career. Drawing from examples in the exhibition and other areas of the museum’s collection, this workshop will explore the influence of Picasso’s work on long-established ideas about the nature, appearance, and role of art, specifically through the contributions of Cubism and collage. This workshop includes a studio session to connect collage practices with Common Core Standards in math and language. Teachers of all grades and disciplines are welcome.

//"There is no question but that Braque and Picasso were concerned, in their Cubism, with holding on to painting as an art of representation and illusion. But at first they were more crucially concerned, in and through their Cubism, with obtaining sculptural results by strictly nonsculptural means; that is, with finding for every aspect of three-dimensional vision an explicitly two-dimensional equivalent, regardless of how much verisimilitude might suffer in the process. Painting had to spell out, rather than pretend to deny, the physical fact that it was flat, even though at the same time it had to overcome this proclaimed flatness as an aesthetic fact and continue to report nature."// —Greenberg

** Teacher workshops are organized and by **** the Art Institute of Chicago Teacher Programs. ** ** Below is a list of the materials that were reviewed and compiled by **** Teacher Programs in preparation for this program. ** media type="youtube" key="Xc8983cAysA" height="315" width="560"


 * Revolution in Technology ||  ||
 * < Revolution in Art ||< NPR podcast and written transcript of a radio spot about the 1913 Armory Show "that shocked America" ||
 * < Clement Greenberg on Collage and Cubism ||< "The quintessential essay on Cubism and probably the most important single essay about 20th Century painting." ||
 * < Photography & Collage ||< University of Chicago article on Picasso and the advent of photo collage ||
 * < Cubism ||< Metropolitan Museum of Art—Thematic Essay on Cubism ||
 * < Video of Picasso ||<  ||
 * < [[file:the-mathematics-of-cubism.pdf]] ||< Info-graphic with concise, visually illustrative explanation of Cubism in mathematical terms ||
 * < Piecing Together 20th Century Art ||< ======An Interdisciplinary Unit on Principles of Collage in Modern Music, Art, and Poetry======

(Grades 4-8)
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 * < Mathematics ||< Common Core Standards ||
 * < English Language Arts ||< Common Core Standards ||
 * < **Historical Context** ||<  ||
 * < Revolution in China ||< Office of the Historian Account of the Chinese Revolution of 1911 ||
 * < Revolution in Mexico ||< PBS: The Storm That Swept Mexico ||
 * < Revolution in Russia ||< Volume One of Leon Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution ||
 * < Revolution in Mexico ||< PBS: The Storm That Swept Mexico ||
 * < Revolution in Russia ||< Volume One of Leon Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution ||