STEAM curriculum continues to grow at SOIT

The STEAM curriculum at SOIT/School of Information and Technology in Paterson, NJ has continued to evolve this year.

STEAM students in Mrs. Simon's Art Class are creating Cubist paintings using watercolor pencils and brushes on large-sized white paper. The c. 22 x 28 inch white papers are being drawn first with pencil by the students then painted later taking their inspiration from Picasso Cubist works.  

STEAM students learned that Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement pioneered by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, joined by Juan Gris, Fernand Leger, and many other well-known artists that revolutionized European painting, sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature, and architecture.  Cubism has been considered the most influential art movement of the 20th century.  Arriving at the concept of depicting an object as seen from different viewpoints independently, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque soon became good friends and went on to develop the visual language of cubism in close cooperation, an alliance that Picasso would sometimes call a marriage.

In addition to creating artworks, students made a virtual tour via Smartboard to the Metropolitan Musuem of Art in New York City where a current exhibition of Cubism is on display.  Art teacher Mrs. Simons pointed out the many connections Cubism has with geometric forms.