Pablo Picasso

Early Life• Picasso was born in Málaga, Spain on

October 25, 1881.• His father, Don José Ruiz y Blasco, was

also a painter.• Picasso showed a love for art early in his

life.• Ruiz then gave up painting because he felt

as if his 13-year-old son had surpassed him in the skill.

• Ruiz sent Picasso to Madrid’s Royal Academy of San Fernando to study art around the age of 16.

Personal Life & Death

• Picasso had a few mistresses in and out of his two marriages and he father two children.

• The premature death of one of his mistresses devastated him, and inspired a few of his paintings.

• Picasso died on April 8, 1973. His last words being, “Drink to me, drink to my health, you know I can’t drink any more.”

• Shortly after Picasso’s death one of his mistresses and his second wife hung themselves.

Political Views• Picasso remained neutral during World War

I, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II, refusing to fight for any side or country.

• He was, however, against the intervention of the United Nations and the United States in the Korean War and he depicted it in Massacre in Korea.

• One of Picasso’s most recognized paintings is Guernica. This depiction of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War shows the inhumanity, brutality and hopelessness of war.

Massacre in

Korea, 1951

Guernica,

1937

Periods of Art• Picasso’s artwork is often classified into

these four periods: • Blue Period (1901–1904)• Rose Period (1905–1907)• Analytic Cubism (1909–1912) • Synthetic Cubism (1912–1919)

Blue & Rose Period

• His Blue Period consists of somber paintings rendered in shades of blue and blue-green.

• His Rose period is characterized by a more cheery style with orange and pink colors, and featuring many circus people, acrobats and harlequins.

The Tragedy, 1903

The Old Guitarist, 1903

Boy with a Pipe, 1905

Girl in a Chemise,

1905

Analytic & Synthetic Cubism• Analytic Cubism uses monochrome

brownish and neutral colors. Picasso analyzed the objects in terms of their shapes.

• Synthetic Cubism was a further development of the genre, in which cut paper fragments were pasted into compositions, marking the first use of collage in fine art.

Girl with the Mandolin,

1910

The Guitar Player,1910

Harlequin with Violin, 1918

Three Musicians,

1921