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Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruiz y Picasso Spain

Middle-Class Upbringing Father - painter, curator, professor Picasso at age 7 receives formal artistic training from father Preferred art to classwork

Sister at 7 dies when Picasso was 13 Family in Barcelona which Picasso sees as his true home Takes month long entrance exam to School of Fine arts & completes in it in 1 week Picasso is only 13

Father rents him a room close to home so that he can work alone & checks on him often during the day At 16 father & uncle send him to Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid the foremost art school

Stops attending school yet spends time in the Prado museum Goes to Paris - cold & poor, burns work to stay warm, publishes magazine with friend as the illustrator, begins to sign his work as Picasso

Married twice 4 children by 3 women Lots of affairs One woman hoped in vain that he would one day marry her too, 4 days after his death she hanged herself

WWII stays in France many others run Cannot show his work, does not fit with Nazi ideals Not suppose to work with Bronze, but it is smuggled into him Time of painting Guernica

Lover Gilot leaves him He is in his 70’s, she is a young art student He takes it badly, deals with his age Paints buffonish men with beautiful young girls Dies during a dinner party

Periods of Picasso Blue Rose African-Influenced Analytical Cubism Synthetic Cubism

Guernica

Depicts the Nazi-German bombing of Guernica, Spain by 28 bombers in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War ,600 people dead more injured Spanish government commissioned Picasso to paint a large mural for display at World’s Fair in Paris 1937 Within 15 days Picasso begins Guernica

It goes on a brief world tour Became an anti-war symbol Franco wanted it, Picasso would not allow it until Spain was returned to the people Represents death, violence, brutality, suffering, helplessness, all in black&white to closely resemble a newspaper 1992 to Madrid’s Prado Museum

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