5: Los colores - Colours

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Pack 1 | Pack 2 Spanish Starter Pack CONTENTS: Introduction: 1 Greetings 2 Goodbye 3 ¿Qué tal? 4 What's your name? 5 Colours 6 Numbers 1-12 7 Ages 8 Months 9 Numbers 13 - 31 10 Birthdays 11 Days of the week 12 Today's date 13 Pets 14 Brothers & sisters 15 Consolidation / assessment 16 En la clase	Picasso - colours of a Spanish artist - Colour-your-own-Picasso - Self-portraits Velasquez: and the story "Katie and the Spanish Princess" Picasso's versions of "Las Meninas"
	What you will learn in section 5: You see and hear the colours in Spanish...    Choosing brightly-coloured sweets from a stall in the street - The bowl of yellow sweeties. PE in the spacious school gym. The game is running to touch something when the teacher says, for example, "touch yellow!" Paintbox colours Back to top

Picasso - colours of a Spanish artist
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Famous Spanish artist who first exhibited work in Paris in 1900, and fell in love with the art scene in Paris. The suicide of a close Spanish friend (Carlos Casagemas) in 1901 led to his "Blue Period" of paintings; he painted impoverished characters like the blind beggar huddled round his guitar, using mostly shades of blue to express how depressed he felt. The people are very thin and angular. Most of this work was done in Paris. He moved to France permanently in 1904. See more examples on these web sites: http://www.artchive.com/artchive/P/picasso_blue.html Search on 'Pablo Picasso' in the collections of the Chicago Art Institute: http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/index.php	The Old Guitarist (1903) - from Picasso's "Blue Period"
Colour your own Picasso These two early works are featured in colouring activities on the Early Start Spanish 1 Interactive CD-ROM: (1) Pot, Glass and Book (1908) - still life (2) Female Head (1902-3) - portrait Click on the pictures to go to larger images on other internet sites. http://tinyurl.com/3wcj ...or search on: - http://www.hermitagemuseum.org http://tinyurl.com/4canoj ...or search on: - http://www.hermitagemuseum
Find some more colouring-in activities on Spanish artists here: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/artists/spain.shtml	Try to draw your own Picasso at 'Mr Picassohead'
One class looked at Picasso's "Blue period". They found lots of examples of his work following the web link below (Art Archive). Here is the teacher's blog: http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/art/picasso.htm Another class looked at examples of his still life paintings, and arranged their own objects to draw in a similar way. Here is a lesson plan: http://www.crayola.com/lesson-plans/detail/shaping-up-with-picasso-lesson-plan/ Find Picasso paintings they looked at on the Art Archive: http://artchive.com/artchive/P/picasso.html	Lesson on still life drawing
Self-portraits: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Click on each thumbnail picture to see a larger image on another web site. These are a few of Picasso's many self-portraits, showing his changing styles from boy genius to old man, rich and famous, near death: 1896 ..... 1901 ..... 1907 ..... 1938 ..... 1972. One class found examples on the internet, and made their own self-portraits echoing some of Picasso's styles. Cubism  He developed "cubism" with Georges Braque, and had a long friendship with Henri Matisse. One class did an internet search for examples of his work, and looked at how he reacted as an artist to the big changes he saw happenning in Spain and the world during his lifetime. Even though his style was different, Picasso still appreciated the artists that went before him. He believed that painters should be more like collectors who save and copy art from history. Back to top
Velasquez and the story "Katie and the Spanish Princess"
In this story book by James Mayhew, Katie is a girl with a magic gift; she can enter great paintings. In London's National Gallery, she goes into the 'Portrait of the Infanta Margarita', by Diego Velasquez (1599-1660) , a famous Spanish painter. Katie and the blonde princess in a stiff golden dress become instant friends, and go together to meet characters in other paintings by Spanish artists, including the Princess's father, (the King of Spain, Philip lV) who tells them off.   Court painter Velasquez's job was 'court painter'; he painted many portraits of the Spanish royal family . One was "Las Meninas" ("Ladies-in-Waiting") . Many art historians rate it as the World's best-ever painting! It inspired Picasso to paint 36 versions of it two centuries later.	Click to buy from Amazon; available in hardback and paperback
What happens in the painting? Although the focus of "Las Meninas" is the 5-year-old Princess, it's unusual for its time in that it also shows the artist himself. He portrays himself at work, (see below ) standing by a tall canvas pn which he is painting the King of Spain (the Princess's father) and his Queen. Velasquez left the royal couple out of the picture, as if they were standing about where YOU are, looking at this scene - but he did show them in a mirror on the back wall. The young Princess Margarita has come in to watch with her maids and dwarf (an entertainer); a nobleman stands in the door-way at the back.
It is noticeable that Velasquez puts the characters who are least important in Spanish society to the front: the dog, the dwarf and the artist (who counted as a workman). Those of high status are shown the smallest. Some people think he was making a secret statement that everybody is really equal - a dangerous idea in Spain at that time. Find out more about Velasquez and "Las Meninas"...	Picasso's dog - he wore out many brushes scrubbing on the canvas. Compare with Valesquez's dog (below)
Velasquez's painting "Las Meninas" - highlighting details of the people and dog. You look at the painting from the same viewpoint as the King and Queen of Spain.
Online activitiesPicasso's versions of 'Las Meninas'
Velasquez Picasso http://www.artchive.com/artchive/p/picasso/meninas.jpg http://lrc.wfu.edu/spanish213/images/lasmeninas.jpg Have a go at this Las Meninas activity: See how Picasso played with the people and things in Velasquez's painting, changing the colours and shapes, to make his own version. Click on the pictures to go to larger images on other internet sites.
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