Picasso Bio

• Born Pablo Ruiz y Picasso October 25th 1881in Málaga, Spain

• He was a painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer

• One of the most influential artists of the 20th century

• Created Cubism with Georges Braque

Early Works

Self Portrait1896

Girl with Plumed Hat1901

Woman with a Cigarette1901

Blue and Rose Periods

Evocation (The Burial of Casagemas)Summer, 1901

Self PortraitLate 1901

The Old Guitar Player1903

Acrobat and Young Harlequin1906

Composition: The Peasants1906

Cubism

Webster defines Cubism as a style of art that stresses abstract structure the expense of other pictorial elements especially by displaying several aspects of the same object simultaneously and by fragmenting the form of the depicted objects.

The Beginning of Cubism1906-1909

Gertrude Stein1906

The Dance of Veils1907

Landscape with a Bridge1909

Analytical Cubism1909-1912

Girl with a Mandolin1910

“Ma Jolie”1911

The Aficionado1912

Synthetic Cubism1912-1914

Still Life with Chair-CaningMay 1912

Head of a Man1913

Still Life (Tate)1914

Between the Wars

After the Wars