Cubism is a style that emerged in the early part of the 1900's and is associated with the works of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, among others. If you click on their names you will go to a site that tells about their contributions.
In this lesson you will: Gain an understanding of the cubist styles of Picasso and Braque. You will also create a mixed-media composition showing multiple views of the still life, and fracture the planes you draw within. Students will also utilize implied textures, black and white values and collage effects to further demonstrate skills in understanding the cubist style.
Before drawing the still life, take a ruler and draw random straight and angled lines on your paper. THis will create "fractures" for the different viewpoints to draw the objects. STart at the top of the page drawing, and as you move down the object and "hit" a line, shift over, and continue to draw from a different angle. Add more lines from other objects, and remember to imply some texture or collage piece (newspapers do well) as you progress. Keep in mind the compositional aspect, repetition, focal point, etc. Do several sketches if necessary to find the right combination of items and lines. You may use paint or colored pencil, graphite or charcoal, newspapers and colored paper to make your composition more lively.
See examples for ideas below.
In this lesson you will: Gain an understanding of the cubist styles of Picasso and Braque. You will also create a mixed-media composition showing multiple views of the still life, and fracture the planes you draw within. Students will also utilize implied textures, black and white values and collage effects to further demonstrate skills in understanding the cubist style.
Before drawing the still life, take a ruler and draw random straight and angled lines on your paper. THis will create "fractures" for the different viewpoints to draw the objects. STart at the top of the page drawing, and as you move down the object and "hit" a line, shift over, and continue to draw from a different angle. Add more lines from other objects, and remember to imply some texture or collage piece (newspapers do well) as you progress. Keep in mind the compositional aspect, repetition, focal point, etc. Do several sketches if necessary to find the right combination of items and lines. You may use paint or colored pencil, graphite or charcoal, newspapers and colored paper to make your composition more lively.
See examples for ideas below.
Here is a link to a page where you can see examples: Cubism drawings