1. Before they broke the rules,
great artists learned the rules…

2. Shading
Shape
Proportion

3. Pablo Picasso 1881-1973 Portrait of Josefa Sabastia Membrado, 1898
Conte crayon on paper
Musee Picasso, Paris
Woman with a Guitar,
Graphite on paper
63 x 47.5 cm
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Pablo Picasso

4. Line
Value
Complementary Colors

5. Wassily Kandinsky 1866-1944 Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle), 1913
Oil on canvas
55 3/8 x 47 1/8”
National Gallery of Art,
Washington, DC
Odessa – Port I, 1898
Oil on canvas
25.6x17.7”
State Tretyakov Gallery,
Moscow
Wassily Kandinsky

6. Composition
Texture
Repetition

7. Paul Cézanne 1839-1906 Still Life with Bread and Eggs, 1865
Oil on canvas
59 x 76 cm
Cincinnati Art Museum
Still Life with Apples and Peaches, 1905
Oil on canvas
81 x cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Paul Cézanne

8. Perspective
Cool/Warm Colors
Emphasis

9. JMW Turner 1775-1851 Norham Castle, Sunrise, 1798
Graphite and watercolor on paper
50.1 x 70.5 cm
Tate, London
Norham Castle, Sunrise, 1845
Oil on canvas
90.8 x cm
Tate, London
JMW Turner

10. Art Literacy teaches the techniques that made these artists great…
What will your student do with them?