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Picasso © 2015 albert-learning.com Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, also known as Pablo Picasso, was born on October 25, 1881 in the town of Malaga, Spain. He died in April He was a painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. Picasso showed a passion and a skill for drawing from an early age. From the age of seven, Picasso received formal artistic training from his father in figure drawing and oil painting. About Picasso

Picasso © 2015 albert-learning.com As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co- founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. During the first decade of the 20th century, his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. His work is often categorized into periods. he most commonly accepted periods in his work are the Blue Period (1901–1904), the Rose Period (1904–1906), the African-influenced Period (1907–1909), Analytic Cubism (1909– 1912), and Synthetic Cubism (1912–1919). About Picasso

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Picasso © 2015 albert-learning.com Picasso's Blue Period (1901–1904), characterized by somber paintings rendered in shades of blue and blue-green, only occasionally warmed by other colours Monochromatic Solitary figures dominate his Blue Period works. Themes of loneliness, poverty and despair pervade the works as well. Possibly his most well known work from this period is The Old Guitarist. Other major works include Portrait of Soler (1903) and Las dos hermanas (1904). Blue Period (1901 – 1904)

Picasso © 2015 albert-learning.com The Rose Period is characterized by a more cheery style with orange and pink colours, and featuring many circus people, acrobats and harlequins known in France as saltimbanques. The harlequin, a comedic character usually depicted in checkered patterned clothing, became a personal symbol for Picasso. Picasso's highest selling painting, Garçon à la pipe (Boy with a pipe) was painted during the Rose Period. Other significant Rose Period works include: Woman in a Chemise (Madeleine) (1904–05), The Actor (1904–1905), Lady with a Fan (1905), Two Youths(1905), Harlequin Family (1905), Harlequin's Family With an Ape (1905), La famille de saltimbanques (1905), Boy with a Dog (1905),Nude Boy (1906), Boy Leading a Horse (1906), and The Girl with a Goat (1906). Rose Period (1904 – 1906)

Picasso © 2015 albert-learning.com Picasso's African-influenced Period (1907–1909) begins with the two figures on the right in his painting, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, which were inspired by African artefacts. Formal ideas developed during this period lead directly into the Cubist period that follows. Other works of Picasso's African Period include the Bust of a Woman (1907, in the National Gallery, Prague); Mother and Child (Summer 1907, in the Musée Picasso, Paris); Nude with Raised Arms (1907, in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain); and Three Women (Summer 1908, in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg). African-influenced Period (1907 – 1909)

Picasso © 2015 albert-learning.com Analytic cubism (1909–1912) is a style of painting Picasso developed with Georges Braque using monochrome brownish and neutral colours. Both artists took apart objects and "analyzed" them in terms of their shapes. Picasso and Braque's paintings at this time share many similarities. 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. Cubism Period (1909 – 1919)

Picasso © 2015 albert-learning.com Picasso Museums A number of museums are devoted to the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso ( ). In France Musée Picasso, Antibes, France Musée Picasso, Paris, France In Germany Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso Münster, Münster, Germany In Spain Museu Picasso, Barcelona, Spain Museo Picasso de Buitrago, Buitrago del Lozoya, Spain Fundación Picasso, Málaga, Spain Museo Picasso Málaga, Málaga, Spain

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