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Kera: Public Media for North Texas: Matisse and Picasso

For Students 9th - 10th
Compare and contrast the work of two twentieth-century masters, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso.
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Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: Pablo Picasso's Guernica and Modern War

For Students 9th - 10th
The sources in this primary set document Pablo Picasso's painting Guernica. Includes teaching guide.
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University of Chicago

University of Chicago Press: Excerpt From Conversations With Picasso

For Students 9th - 10th
Excerpt from Brassai's book Conversations with Picasso. The author recounts his dialogue with artist Pablo Picasso.
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Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Pablo Picasso Biography

For Students 3rd - 8th
Explore this brief biography of Pablo Picasso, well-known painter of the Cubist movement.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Biography: Pablo Picasso for Kids

For Students 9th - 10th
Investigate the biography of Pablo Picasso who was artist and painter of the Cubism and Modern art movement on this site.
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

Guggenheim Museum: Picasso and the War Years, 1936 45

For Students 9th - 10th
Scrolling timeline of the work Picasso produced during World War II shows off a wide range of Picasso's work interspersed with historical photographs of the war and notes about key events occurring at the time. A compelling way to view...
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Art Institute of Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago: Revealing Picasso

For Students 9th - 10th
Using new technology related to examining artwork, The Art Institute of Chicago was able to uncover unknown details about one of Picasso's most famous works, "The Old Guitarist." Fascinating discoveries and technological processes make...
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BBC

Bbc: Simon Schama's Power of Art: Picasso

For Students 9th - 10th
From the BBC's documentary series on art "Simon Schama's Power of Art", this is the web-page synopsis version of the program on the Spanish master modernist painter Pablo Picasso.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: Portrait of the Art World: Pablo Picasso

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief essay about the artistic legacy of twentieth-century modernist Pablo Picasso.
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New York Times

New York Times: Picasso and Matisse

For Students 9th - 10th
Michael Kimmelman, art critic for the "New York Times," narrates a slideshow of the work of two titans of twentieth-century art, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. He clearly documents the friendly rivalry that existed between these two...
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The Wharton Group

Discover France: Pablo Picasso

For Students 9th - 10th
An insightful biography of Picasso (1881-1973 CE) by a museum curator, with critical analysis of several famous works interspersed throughout. Excellent discussion of Picasso's artistic influences. Includes reproductions of a few of his...
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Columbus Museum of Art: Curator's View: Picasso Cubist Still Life

For Students 9th - 10th
See the cubist still life painting 'Still Life with Compote and Glass' by Pablo Picasso, in this Curator's View series description and image from the Columbua Museum of Art.
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El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word)

E Pd Lp: Pablo Picasso

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore this bibliography and image gallery of the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso. Uses popups.
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Tate

Tate Liverpool: Picasso: Peace and Freedom: Educator's Pack [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Art historical context and analysis of an exhibition of Picasso's work on the artist's interest in representations of war and peace during the cold war period [Tate Liverpool, 2010]. This illustrated educator's pack, though designed to...
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Museum of Modern Art

Mo Ma: Picasso: Themes and Variations

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive analysis of Picasso as printmaker explains the printmaking techniques that he put to inventive use over his long career. See close-up comparisons of his works on paper along a number of key thematic and subject-matter...
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Dulcinea Media Inc.: Personajes: Pablo Picasso, Destacado Pintor

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a brief biography of Pablo Picasso the "father of cubism"
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Pablo Picasso: Spanish Cubist Painter and Sculptor

For Students 9th - 10th
Find Pablo Picasso's art in museums and galleries around the world.
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Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: Pablo Picasso

For Students 9th - 10th
This visual website from Google Cultural Institute shares background information and photos about Pablo Picasso.
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NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: Cezanne to Picasso (Slideshow of Masterworks)

For Students 9th - 10th
An NPR-produced slideshow set to the music of Claude Debussy showcases dozens of post-impressionist masterworks by Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Bonnard, Derain, Degas, and Picasso. The slideshow coincides with an exhibition that opened at...
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Philadelphia Museum of Art

Philadelphia Museum of Art: Pablo Picasso: Three Musicians

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has a beautiful image and description of this famous work by Picasso.
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BBC

Bbc: In Pictures: Picasso and Africa

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This is an interesting look at Picasso's works and the influence African art.
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Museum of Modern Art

Mo Ma: Exhibitions: Picasso Guitars: 1912 14

For Students 9th - 10th
Exhibition focuses on two cubist works by Picasso that showcase the artist's incessant inventiveness with traditional media and found objects.
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: Double Vision

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Pablo's Picasso's La Toilette is a loving portrait of Fernande Olivier, as well as a study in opposites and a reference to the history of art. In this lesson, students will discover the many levels of content in the painting through...
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PBS

Pbs Treasures of the World: Guernica Testimony of War

For Students 9th - 10th
A wonderful site describing Pablo Picasso's "Guernica," a mural he created for the 1937 World's Fair. The resource examines the civil war raging in Picasso's homeland of Spain and the frustration he felt toward the violence taking place...

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