This education kit has been designed for the purpose of criticism and review in conjunction with the temporary exhibition Picasso: The Last Decades, 9 November 2002 - 16 February 2003. It highlights key works and themes and aims to provide a context for their use as a resource for K-6 and 7-12 audiences. It may be used in conjunction with a visit to the exhibition or as pre or post-visit resource material. The K-6 and 7-12 material has been written with reference to the NSW Creative Arts Syllabus Years K-6 and the NSW Visual Arts Syllabus Years 7-12. Specifically, the K-6 material focuses on Visual Arts and makes links to other key learning areas and the 7-12 material is structured around the Frames (Subjective, Structural, Cultural and Postmodern) and, through the suggested case studies, the Conceptual Framework

All materials and all works included are copyright and may only be reproduced with permission of the Art Gallery of New South Wales and other copyright holders in accordance with the educational copying provisions of the Copyright Act 1968.

NOTE: In accordance with licensing agreements with the image copyright holders, images of artworks have been removed following the close of the exhibition on 16 February 2003.

Exhibition Principal Sponsors: Deutsche Bank, Qantas
In association with Sydney Festival
Media Sponsor: The Sydney Morning Herald
Supporting Sponsors: City of Sydney, JC Decaux, The Intercontinental Sydney

· Produced by the Public Programmes Department of the Art Gallery of New South Wales

CONTENTS

Introduction

Mini-essays:
· Picasso's legacy
· Picasso's late style
· Picasso's approach to painting
· Picasso's last decades in review
· Picasso's approaches to printmaking

About the exhibition:
· Curator's statement
· Exhibition facts and figures
· Floorplan
· Room Text Panels

Selected references and links

8 Works in focus
- featuring background information,
K-6 Looking and making ideas,
7-12 Framing questions

Stage 6 Syllabus Suggested Case Studies

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