Biography of Picasso

1. PABLO PICASSO
BIOGRAPHY

2. • Born October 25, 1881, in Malaga, Spain, Pablo Picasso, became
one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century
and the creator (with Georges Braque) of Cubism. A Spanish
expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage
designer, Picasso was considered radical in his work. After a long
prolific career, he died April 8, 1973 in Mougins, France.

3. • For nearly 80 of his 91 years Picasso
devoted himself to an artistic production
that contributed significantly to the whole
development of modern art in the 20th
century.

4. • Picasso's mother was Doña Maria Picasso y
Lopez and his father was Don José Ruiz
Blasco, a painter and art teacher.

5. • "When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you
become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a
monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead I became a
painter and wound up as Picasso."

6. • Picasso displayed a prodigious
talent for drawing from a very
young age.
• According to legend, his first
words were "piz, piz," his
childish attempt at lápiz, the
Spanish word for pencil.
• By the time he was 13 years
old his paintings were already
better executed than his
father's.
Le Picador, 1890
Pablo was nine years old when he completed this
painting!

7. • When Picasso was fourteen
years old, his family moved to
Barcelona and he immediately
applied to the city's prestigious
School of Fine Arts.
• Although the school typically
only accepted students several
years his senior, Picasso's
entrance exam was so
extraordinary that the school
made an exception and
admitted him immediately.

8. • Years later, in Barcelona, he joined a crowd
of artists and intellectuals who made their
headquarters at a café called El Quatre
Gats.
• Inspired by the anarchists and radicals he
met there, Picasso made his decisive break
with the classical methods in which he had
been trained and began a lifelong process of
experimentation and innovation.

9. • At the turn of the
twentieth century,
Picasso moved to Paris,
the cultural center of
Europe.

10. • Art critics and historians
typically break Picasso's
adult career into distinct
periods. The first of these,
which lasted from
1901-1904, is called his
Blue Period after the color
that dominated nearly all of
Picasso's paintings during
these years.

11. BLUE PERIOD
• Lonely and deeply depressed over the death of
his close friend Carlos Casagemas, he painted
scenes of poverty, isolation and anguish using
almost exclusively blues and greens.
• Blue dominates the paintings.
• Marvelous expression of poetic subtlety
• Picasso's style from classicism to abstract art.

12. Self portrait

13. The old guitarrist
1903

14. Blue nude

15. Woman with Her Arms Crossed, 1903

16. ROSE PERIOD
• By 1905, Picasso had largely overcome his
depression of the previous years.
• The artistic manifestation of Picasso's
improved spirits was the introduction of
warmer colors like beiges, pinks and reds in
what is known as his Rose Period.

17. This is a
happier
period,
Picasso paints
clowns and
circus scenes
using brighter
colours.
Family at
Saltimbanques (1905)

18. Gertrude Stein (1905-1906)

19. Two Nudes (1906).

20. Acrobat
and Young Harlequin,
1906

21. • In 1907, Picasso produced a painting unlike
anything he or anyone else had ever painted before,
a work that would profoundly influence the
direction of art in the twentieth century: Les
Demoiselles d'Avignon, a chilling depiction
of five beige figures, prostitutes, abstracted and
distorted with sharp geometric features and stark
blotches of blues, greens and grays.
• Les Demoiselles d'Avignon is considered the
precursor and inspiration of Cubism, an artistic
style pioneered by Picasso and Georges Braque.

23. Aspect 3: Black Period
1906-1907
• Influenced by African art, on which
he bases a series of drawings,
paintings and woodcarvings

24. 1907- Cubism
• In Cubist paintings, objects are broken apart
and reassembled in an abstracted form,
highlighting their composite geometric
shapes and depicting the object from
multiple viewpoints at once to create
physics-defying, collage-like effects.

25. Three Women (1907)

26. Bread and Fruit Dish on a Table
(1909)

27. Girl with Mandolin (1910)

28. Still Life with Chair Caning (1912)

29. Card Player (1913-1914)

30. Three Musicians (1921)

31. CLASSIC PERIOD
• Picasso's works between 1918-1927 are
considered his Classical Period, a brief
return to realism in a career otherwise
dominated by experimentation. His most
interesting and important works from this
period are…Three Women at the
Spring (1921), Two Women Running on the
Beach/The Race (1922) and The Pipes of
Pan (1923).

32. Three women at spring
(1921)

33. Two women running on the beach/ the race (1922)

34. Te pipes of pan (1923)

35. Surrealism (expressionism)
• From 1927 onward, Picasso was caught up
in a new philosophical and cultural
movement, Surrealism, whose artistic
manifestation was an offspring of his own
Cubism.
• Picasso's greatest surrealistic painting, one
of the greatest paintings of all time, was
completed in 1937, this painting is…

36. Guernica (1937)
Picasso shows his hate of war and the bombing of
Guernica’s population during the Spanish civil war

37. • In this period
Picasso uses
deformed shapes,
representing
monsters and
mythological
figures, His
sculptures were
made of metallic
threads and cards.

38. • In the aftermath of World War II, Picasso
became more overtly political. He joined
the Communist Party and was twice
honored with the International Lenin Peace
Prize, once in 1950 and again in 1961. By
this point in his life, Picasso was also an
international celebrity, the world's most
famous living artist.

40. Pablo Picasso Says...
"Every child is an artist. The problem is
how to remain an artist once he grows
up."

41. Upon passing a group of school kids in his old age Picasso
remarked, "When I was as old as these children, I could draw
like Raphael, but it took me a lifetime to learn to draw like
them."

42. • The epitome of his later works is his Self
Portrait Facing Death, drawn with pencil
and crayon a year before he passed away.

43. • Picasso was an incorrigible womanizer who had
countless relationships with girlfriends, mistresses,
muses and prostitutes over the course of his long life.
• However, he had only two wives. He married a
ballerina named Olga Khokhlova in 1918, and they
remained together for nine years before parting ways
in 1927. He married his second wife, Jacqueline
Roque, at the age of 69 in 1961.
• Picasso had four children: Paul, Maya, Claude and
Paloma.
• He passed away on April 8, 1973 at the age of 91.

44. The total number of works of art he produced has been estimated
at 50,000
1,885 paintings; 1,228 sculptures; 2,880 ceramics, about
12,000 drawings, many thousands of prints, and numerous
tapestries and rugs!
• The most expensive
painting ever sold was
this one by Picasso. In
2004 it was sold for
• $104 million!!!!