Halloween Monster Faces - Picasso & Synthetic Cubism

Our focus this week was on Picasso's Synthetic Period.  Synthetic Cubism was started by Picasso and his long-time friend Georges Braque.  The general idea of Synthetic Cubism is to layer different materials on top of each other (collage) to form a piece of art.  Art pieces were created using paper, fabric, newspaper clippings, magazine ads, cigarette boxes, music sheets and so on.

To help the kids better understand the collage concept we had them create their very own synthetic cubism Monster faces.  They had a blast and we ended up with some really creatively put together monsters.