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)