Pablo Picasso

Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso was a Spanish painter, draugthsman and sculptor who lived most of his adult life in France. He is one of the most important artist in 20th century. His long life is full of famous creations of his experiment with different themes and styles.

Born : Malaga, Spain. 25 Oct 1881

Picasso showed a passion and a skill for drawing from an early age. Picasso received formal artistic training from his father in figure drawing and oil painting. Then he went to School of Fine Arts in A Coruña. In 1895, Picasso and his family moved to Barcelona, where his Father, Ruiz, took a position at its School of Fine Arts. October 1900, Picasso visited Paris and after visited it for a few times, he had stayed in Paris since 1904.

Blue and Rose Period

Femme aux Bras Croisés

The Old Guitarist

La Vie

 1901-1903 was known as Picasso's Blue Period. Because of Picasso’s Blue Period consists of somber paintings rendered in shades of blue and blue-green, only occasionally warmed by other colors. Most of his paintings were about life of common people and beggar in Paris.

Change of his career was happen in 1904 when he was sponsored by a writer Gertrude Stein and art seller Kahnweiler.

Between 1905-1907, Picasso appear with Rose Period. His paintings at this period wasn't too melancholy, more cheerful and brighter than his painting at the Blue Period.

Acrobate et jeune arlequin

Garçon à la pipe

Cubism

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

Change of Picasso's style of painting was in 1906-1907, when he was introduced to Paul Cezanne's creations and influenced by African and Iberian traditional sculptures. The influence of the sculptures stand out especially on famous work, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907).

Between 1909-1914, Picasso cooperated with French artist Georges Braque and developed a new style known as analytic Cubism. It is a style that tend to split an object to be a geometrical shape.

Three Musicians

1912-1913, Picasso and Braque found and used collage technique for the first time. It is a technique to stick many objects such as papers or portions to canvas. Picasso also started to make sculptures. His innovation was to not carve sculpture from stone or wood but make separate shapes from metals and wires first, then put it back together.

Guernica

 In the 1920s, Picasso was interested to classical style, and it influenced him for the whole decade. In the 1930s, Picasso experimented with surrealism art. HIs famous work with this style is Guernica. This large canvas embodies for many brutality of war when a village named Guernica was bombed on civil war in Spain.

Guernica

 After World War II, Picasso still lived in France but keep moving from place to place until he finally stayed in Cannes on 1955. At that moment, Picasso was becoming more productive and experimental and started work on other media. Aside from painting, sculpture, lithography, and etching, Picasso also made ceramics and other three-dimensional designs. Picasso also worked on orders such as mural at UNESCO building in Paris.

This 20th century art maestro died on 8 April 1973 because of heart attack. 13 years after that, his wife, Jacqueline Roque took her own life by gunshot because of devastated and lonely after the death of Picasso.

Potrait of Jacqueline