Picasso-Inspired Sculpture
Ninth grade boys visited the Museum of Modern Art last October. One of the exhibitions they saw was The Sculpture of Picasso. This semester, ninth graders have referred back to this visit as they have created their own three-dimensional objects. They used Picasso’s sheet metal sculptures as inspiration to try to create form from something flat, such as a sheet of paper.
Art teacher, Ms. Meigs, gave each student one sheet of paper from which they were asked to construct a three-dimensional object. These became studies for larger sculptures made out of one piece of cardboard, cut in the same proportions as their sheets of paper. Throughout the process, boys discussed how their approaches changed as they moved from one material to another. They discussed each other’s work thematically and tried to find ways to enhance those themes through the use of shape, contour, and color.
Their final sculptures will be revealed in the Art Show on May 2. The range in scale, color, and shape is impressive. It is hard to believe that these sculptures all began as pieces of cardboard that were exactly the same size.
