This great little video shows all the steps that Picasso went through in order to create his painting - as it plays, you can see elements get added, changed, distorted...
This video would make a great discussion opener - for art class, ELA... any class in which creation is a process. Often, when I'm teaching writing, I find students who are attached to a particular construct, idea, or sentence. One of the toughest lessons for a writer to learn is that it is a process - that, much like a sculptor might reshape clay to better convey their idea, a writer needs to reshape their words.
Letting students see that the act of creation often contains acts of change - which can seem like destruction at the time - is important.
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