Year 9 Artist tasks for beginning of term

Term 1: Pablo Picasso-Guernica

Link to line drawing of Guernica: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vnhZtAqz9aVdyTp0SLfZzALxhxuR80WM/view?usp=sharing

Link to War classical background music for activity: https://youtu.be/hHwqfT4mhfI?si=VhB1UQIK0o8hUyTD

Guernica Research Task Year 9

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presentation

Picasso’s ‘Guernica’: 10 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Famous PaintingInternationally acclaimed Spanish artist Pablo Picasso is revered for his masterpiece ‘Guernica’ – one of the most powerful and iconic paintings in history. Picasso, who rarely mixed art and politics, painted Guernica as a reaction to the 1937 bombing of the town, situated within Basque Country, Spain, by the fascist S

Watch short video on Picasso: https://youtu.be/xfS2QQ28H7A?si=AF7s2nb3i5FBjIQ

Watch this video after: What is Cubism? | Tate Kids

Then watch this longer video: Picasso’s Guernica: Great Art Explained

Students need to use their imagination to come up with their own A4 artist page that includes the following:

Title: Pablo Picasso Guernica

Image/sketch (see my example below)

Answer the following questions and include these in the Artist page or the next page:

1. What is Cubism?

2. Who invented Cubism?

3. Why is it called Cubism?

4. What happened on Monday 26th April 1937?

5. What did this war crime inspire Picasso to do?

6. Name some of the key figures and their possible symbolism?

They can use Ipads to review the video, look for answers and search for Picasso’s painting, ‘Guernica’ or other work by Picasso.

5 important facts about Guernica

1. A Response to a Tragic Event: The painting is Picasso's visceral reaction to the devastating bombing of the Spanish town of Guernica by German and Italian warplanes in 1937.

2. Monochromatic and Monumental Scale: Guernica is a massive, eleven-by-twenty-five-foot oil painting rendered entirely in black, white, and shades of gray, which gives it a somber and journalistic quality.

3. A Symbol of Anti-War Sentiment: The painting is considered one of the most powerful anti-war statements in history, not for its realism but for its emotional portrayal of suffering, chaos, and violence.

4. International Commission and Exhibit: The painting was commissioned by the Spanish Republican government for the 1937 Paris International Exposition to raise awareness of the war's brutality. It later toured worldwide to help raise funds for Spanish refugees.

5. A Symbol of Spanish Democracy: Picasso requested that the painting not be returned to Spain until democracy was restored. Guernica finally returned to Spain in 1981 and is now a major attraction at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid.

Term 2: Jean-Michel Basquiat

Link for music for task: https://youtu.be/QfG_FCrZIfA?si=4w30-sV7fgwAG62_

Link to printable worksheet of a skull: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11aChDTQBOugqu-Crp5wfaLBmyh5YSCHf/view?usp=sharing

Information on artist: https://www.theartstory.org/artist/basquiat-jean-michel/