born: october 25, 1881 malaga, spain
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Born: October 25, 1881 Malaga, Spain
Pablo Picasso
• Father, Don Jose Ruiz, a fine arts professor• Picasso’s first words “piz, piz”• Age 7 - formal art training began• First recognized work “Science and
Charity” (1897) at age 16
• 1901 – moves to Paris• Extreme poverty
mirrored in “Blue Period” (1901-1904)
• New love = “Rose Period” (1904-1906)
• Bright colours and circus people
“The Old Guitarist” (1903)
“Harlequin on a Red Arm Chair” (1905)
• With Georges Braque, invented Cubism in 1909• Achieved world-wide fame in 1920s• Frequent women in his life influenced his
style/mood
Girl with a Mandolin (1910)
Sleeping Peasants (1919)
• Moved to styles of classicism and surrealism.• Often produced a painting every day • 50,000 works in his lifetime• Up to his death (1973) created innovative art
Don Quixote(1955) Les Menines (1957)
Medium +Styles• Changed medium and styles through
career.• Most often worked with paint• Also paper, ink, even bronze sculptures• Began with realism• Created Cubism and collage• Many paintings Neoclassical +
Surrealism
The Race (1922)
Themes/Subjects• Incredible variety!• Still lifes, portraits,
common people, scenes of the street
• Particularly fond of outcasts such as poor people and prostitutes• Themes
Mythology, war, poverty, love
Dwarf (1969)
Picasso’s famous works
Three Musicians (1921)
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907)
Guernica (1937)
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