1. Bell Work
Color Work

2. Pablo Picasso

3. Early Years Pablo Picasso born in, 1881 - Malaga, Spain
He started painting and drawing at a very young age
Picasso’s father was also a painter himself and recognized his talent at a young age

4. Picasso's first painting at age 8, Picador (1889).

5. Pablo’s father taught him the basics of formal and academic art training.
Picasso attended many art schools during his childhood, many those his father taught
He never finished his studies at the Academy of Arts in Madrid, dropping out after only a year

6. The Holy Communion, 1896. His first painting in an exhibit, age 15.
Self-Portrait, Painted at 16. Reproduced onto stamp.
At the Sickbed, Painted at 16.
His First Works
The Holy Communion, His first painting in an exhibit, age 15.
Self-Portrait, Painted at 16. Reproduced onto stamp.
At the Sickbed, Painted at 16.

7. In the early years of the twentieth century, Picasso, still a struggling youth, began a long term relationship with Fernande Olivier. It is she who appears in many of the Rose period paintings.
After garnering fame and some fortune, Picasso left Olivier for Marcelle Humbert, whom Picasso called Eva.
Picasso included declarations of his love for Eva in many Cubist works. Eva was diagnosed with cancer and during her rapid deterioration Picasso tended to her every need, making daily trips across Paris to visit her in the hospital.

8. Paris
Picasso moved to Paris in Paris was the center of European art. Picasso and his friend and fellow painter Carlos Casagemas decided it was time to see Paris for themselves.
Self Portrait, photograph, 1902
Self Portrait, 1900

9. The Blue Period
In 1901, his friend passed away. Picasso was devastated by the death and the mood of his paintings showed this. This period is called the Blue Period. How do these paintings make you feel?
Self Portrait, 1901
The Old Guitarist, 1903

10. Blue Period
This particular pigment is effective in conveying a somber tone
The Blue Period work is quite sentimental, but we must keep in mind that Picasso was still in his late teens, away from home for the first time, and living in very poor conditions

11. “Le Gourmet” 1901
“The Tragedy” 1903

12. The Rose Period
In 1904, Picasso took interest in the world of circus performers and actors.
Acrobats and the clown-like Harlequin often became the subject for this new period known as the Rose Period.

13. Family of Saltimbanques, 1905
Acrobat and the Young Harlequin, 1905

14. “Girl in Chemise” 1905
“Two Youths” 1905

15. Cubism
Picasso soon left the Rose period behind and began a new experimental phase known as Cubism.
Picasso was interested in African sculpture and the way it distorted the body into imaginative shapes.
This is a painting of a guitar. How many shapes can you find in the picture?
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907

16. “Self Portrait with Palette” 1906

17. Portrait of Juan Gris

19. Cubism
Cubism breaks up an image into shapes and planes, showing multiple sides of the same object at the same time.
Picasso was widely respected for his innovative work.
“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”

20. Classicism
In 1917, Picasso met a beautiful dancer named Olga Kokhlova and in 1918 they were married.
Picasso’s paintings during this time were brighter and sunnier than his prior Cubist works.

21. Surrealism
In 1925 Picasso became closely involved with a group of artists known as the Surrealists.
They were interested in the world of dreams and spontaneous behavior.

22. Surrealism

24. Barbarism
In 1937, Picasso was asked to paint a large mural for the Spanish pavilion at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. Picasso chose Guernica as his subject.
The painting shows a series of terrifying scenes showing the brutality of war and its destructiveness.

25. Guernica

26. World War II
World War II began in The Germans invaded and conquered France.
Picasso could have fled, but he decided to paint and sculpt.
Much of his work took on a somber mood, but by staying in Paris, the artist became a symbol of freedom.

27. World War II

28. After the War
In spite of the war, Picasso’s fame spread all over the world.
His lithograph of the dove became the International symbol for world peace.

29. A Celebration of Peace

30. Picasso’s Late Works
In the last two decades of his long career, Picasso produced more work than at any other time of his life. During this period, some works are not only dated by month and day, but with a numeral (I, II, III, etc.) indicating multiple works created that single day
This late period tends to be overlooked, but contains some of the finest of Picasso's paintings. Some critics maintain Picasso was creatively lazy at this point
Regardless of your position on Picasso's personal and artistic life, each of us can, in view of our own mortality, be awed by his final self-portrait

32. The Final Years
Picasso spent his last years as a celebrity-his art as well as his person became a myth.
In this period, Picasso spent a large amount of time reworking masterpieces by other painters, such as the Velazquez seen above.

33. Throughout Picasso's lifetime, his work was exhibited on countless occasions. Most unusual, however, was the 1971 exhibition at the Louvre, in Paris, honoring him on his 90th birthday. It was the first time a living artist had been honored there
He died in 1973 at the age of 91
In 1980 a major retrospective showing of his work was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City