Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born in Malaga the 25th of October 1881

His father was also a painter

and an Art teacher

His first word was “piz” for

“lápiz”

Picasso with his sister Lola

After studying in Madrid he went to Paris where he met

many artists.

He divided his time between Barcelona

and Paris.

He was a celebrity because of his art, but also because of his personal life. He had

many lovers.

Picasso’s work is often categorized into periods.

•Blue period 1901-1904

•Rose period 1905-1907

•African-influenced period 1908-1909

•Analytic Cubism 1909-1912

•Sythetic Cubism 1912-1919

BLUE PERIOD 1901-1904

He used blue and

blue-green only occasionally warmed by other colours.

ROSE PERIOD 1905-1907

It is a cheery style with

orange and pink colours, and

many harlequins.

AFRICAN-INFLUENCED PERIOD 1907-1909

It is inspired by African artifacts

ANALYTIC CUBISM 1909 -1912

Picasso and Braque

started this new style.

They took objects and

analyzed them in terms

of their shapes.

SYNTHETIC CUBISM 1912-1919

Here he cut paper

fragments and pasted them

into compositions,

“collages”.

NEOCLASSICAL STYLE

The minotaur replaced the harlequin. Guernica is his most famous work, it is a

depiction of the German bombing of Guernica, Spain. It describes the brutality

of war.

Picasso was also a sculptor.

He made the Chicago Picasso, and he refused to be paid 100.000 $.

We don’t know what the figure

represents, it coul be a bird, a horse, a woman or a totally

abstract shape.

There are many museums around the world with his works, Malaga, Barcelona, New York

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Picasso died the 8th of April 1973 in Mougins, France

He is one of the most important figures of the 2oth century art.