PABLO PICASSO 1881 - 1973By H.F. Mandirola1

it takes a long time to become young.

MODERN ART MASTER

Art is everthing.

To make the bull head sculpture on the left he use

two parts of bicycle the seat and the handlebars.

Somebody ask Picasso ¨what is art?¨ And he answer

¨What is not?¨.

He was the pioneer of Modern Art.

Pablo Picasso was one of the most famous Spanish

painters.

During Francisco Franco’s dictatorship he was

persecuted and he had emigrated to France.

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Picasso was born in Malaga in

the south of Spain on the

Mediterranean coast and died in

1973 in Cannes in the French

Mediterranean coast.

BLUE PERIOD (1901-1904)

The death of his best friendCarlos Casagemas paintingtestifies of Picasso's shock andhorror over the suicide of hisfriend.

In the sense of Picasso dealingwith his trauma this paintingbelongs to the blue period, butit doesn't have the atmosphereof resignation and silentmourning that his bluepaintings would have.

3La vie

ROSE PERIOD (1904-1907)

The Rose Period started in1904.

Picasso was happy in hisrelationship with FernandeOlivier whom he had met in1904.

Pablo Picasso began to developa highly romantic style ofpainting in 1899, which endedin 1901, after his close friendCarlos Casagemas hadcommitted suicide.

During his Rose Period,Picasso would becomecommercially successful.

4The Actor

BLACK PERIOD

Refers to the years 1906 and 1907, in which Picasso falls under the influence of African art.

Picasso acknowledged that a visit to the Trocaderomuseum changed him, but he didn't say why, he never gave African art the credit it deserves. 5Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

CUBISM PERIOD

In France, Pablo

Picasso and George

Braque invented

Cubism.

Cubism was a new

movement of painting;

this way of painting

use geometric shapes

like cylinders,

triangles, lines, and

cubes.

6JuanGris.Portrait of Picasso

THE GUERNICA

One of his most famous paintings is theGuernica. The Guernica symbolizes the Nazi airforce bombardment and devastation of the citycalled Guernica, this fact happened before theSecond World War. The Nazi Army used theSpanish civil war to test their weapons .Obviously the Nazis fought against republicanjointly with Franco.

Picasso lived most of his life in Paris even duringGerman occupation; there he got married to withFrancois Gilot who was 40 years younger thanhim, He had two children with her : Claude andPaloma. 7

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Once, Nazi officers came into Picasso´s apartment in Paris and

saw a photograph of Guernica. The officer remarked with

ridicule, “This painting, you did this.”

“No,” replied Picasso. “You did this.”

On April 27th, 1937 at 4:30 PM German Condor bombers devastated the

town and killed 1600 men women and children.

PICASSO´S POLITICAL MILITANCY

In 1944, Picasso became

a member of the French

Communist Party, whose

figurehead he remained

until the end of his life.

Yet his political thinking

was entirely molded by

his desire for peace and

freedom.

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During those years, he painted, drew, and

lithographed his famous image of the white dove,

which turned into a global symbol of freedom and a

human society.

WOMEN AND PICASSO

Picasso had a lot of women.He got married to withFrancois Gilot who was 40years younger than him,

He had two children withher : Claude and Paloma.

Picasso was a womanizer,and he had relationshipwith women even youngerthan his wife.

One day Francois left himwith their children, Hesuffered a lot by because ofthat reason, but hemarried another womancalled Jacqueline. 10

Picasso´s

Sylvette David

nineteen years

old Picasso´s

model

ARQUITECTURE INFLUENCE

11Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao as an example of how cubism and

modern art influece architecture.

PABLO PICASSO´S LAST WORD.

One day in a dinner he had a heart attack and

died.

His Last wife Jacqueline prevented that his

children Claude and Paloma from attending his

funeral.

His last words are also very famous, before he

died he said ¨Drink to me, drink to my health,

you know I can´t drink any more¨,

Paul McCartney wrote a beautiful song about

Pablo Picasso´s last word.

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