Cubism: Landscape

This unit was titled:  The world we live in.

Fifth grade studied the artistic movement called:  Cubism.

Cubism is considered the most influential art movement of the 20th century.  Leading artists of the cubist movement were: Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, etc…

We looked at several artworks from the cubist movement and discussed Cubist artwork:

objects are analyzed, broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context.

Students also discussed landscape: what is it, what does it look like outside my door, down the street, in the city, across the ocean?

Students drew their idea of an ideal landscape.  Then they used elements from Cubism to break up their landscape, creating a reassembled effect.

Nice work Fifth Grade!