“Art is a Lie that makes us realize the Truth”

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso was born in Spain in 1881.

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During his career, he spent most of his adult life in France, creating over 50,000 works of art!

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His early work was very realistic. He created a series of paintings people call his “Blue Period” because most of the paintings were monochromatic- in one color range- of blue.

He, along with another artist, Georges Braque, invented a style of art called “Cubism”. Subjects in Cubism are broken up into pieces and re-arranged in an abstract or disjointed way. They were trying to view each part from a separate angle, at the same time!

Most of his work was about how things looked, but occasionally he made art with a political theme. During World War II, Picasso saw a news article about a Nazi bombing of a Spanish town called Guernica. He created this painting in response.

Today, we will be creating Picasso-style portraits while playing a game! We will roll dice to see how we arrange our faces, and then color in the results.