Pablo Picasso was an artist known for his line drawings that used only a few simple lines to depict complex images and expressive subjects. The document examines some of Picasso's line drawings of animals like dogs that he owned, noting how the sparse lines are able to convey significant detail and emotion despite their minimalism.

1. Pablo Picasso
Line drawings

2. Pablo Picasso was an artist whose work spans a
wide range of artistic movements and mediums.

3. His drawings
using a few
simple lines
and remain
some of his
most popular
images.

4. Let’s take a look at some of Picasso’s line
drawings.

5. At first glance we all
think we could easily
draw these images
but to use so few
lines to express so
much is a lot harder
than it looks.

6. He created beautiful art using a
single unbroken line.

7. Picasso loved animals and owned a huge variety
over his life-time

8. Many appeared in his work, and in particular his
line drawings.

9. This is one of Picasso’s dogs, Lump. Can you
tell what kind of dog he owned?

10. What do you see?

11. What animals do you see?

13. His single line
drawings are so
simple but at the
same time so
powerful.