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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, draughtsman and sculptor who lived most of his life in France. He is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d’Avianon (1907) and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.

Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a realistic manner through his childhood and adolescence; during the first decade of the 20th century his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. His revolutionary artistic accomplishments brought him universal renown and immense fortune, making him one of the best-known figures in 20th century art.

The Three Period of Art

Blue Period

<Femme aux Bras Croisés>

Femme aux Bras Croisés, this work, painted in 1901, was a part of Picasso’s famous Blue Period, a dark, sad time in the artist’s life. The beautiful & various tones of blue are typical. The painting depicts a woman with her arms crossed staring at the endless nothing.

Rose Period

<Garcon a la Pipe>

It was created during the Rose Period, Garcon a la Pipe showcases Picasso’s exceptional use of cheerful orange and pink palatte. The oil on canvas painting, measuring 100, 81.3 cm (slightly over 39 , 32 inches), displays a Parisian boy holding a pipe in his left hand.

Aferican-influenced Period

<Les Demoiselles d'Avignon>

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, portrays five nude female prostitutes from a brothel on Carrer d'Avinyó (Avinyó Street) in Barcelona. Each figure is depicted in a disconcerting confrontational manner and none are conventionally feminine. The women appear as slightly menacing and rendered with angular and disjointed body shapes. Two are shown with African mask-like faces and three more with faces in the Iberian style of Picasso's native Spain, giving them a savage aura.

Two Types of Paintings

Classicium and surrealism Classicium and surrealism

Cubism Cubism

<Standing Female Nude>

Cubism

Analytic Cubism (1909–1912) is a style of painting Picasso developed along with Georges Braque using monochrome brownish and neutral colors. Both artists took apart objects and “analyzed” them in terms of their shapes. Synthetic cubism (1912–1919) was a further development of the genre, in which cut paper fragments—often wallpaper or portions of newspaper pages—were pasted into compositions, marking the first use of collage in fine art.

Classicism and surrealism

After the World War I, the society was going through a violent change, and so did Pablo Picasso's style of painting. He started painting in a n Picasso’s paintings and drawings from this period frequently recall the work of Ingres. During the 1930s, some more changes were incorporated in Picasso's paintings the<Guernica>

major one being the replacement of the harlequin with the minotaur as a common motif. Picasso was greatly influenced to use minotaur from his contact with the surrealists, who were known for using it often as their symbol. This acquired quality of Picasso is evident in Picasso’s Guernica. eoclassical style.