1. Pablo Picasso
10/25/1881
Malaga, Spain
4/8/1973
Mougins, France

2. “We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize
the truth, at least the truth is given
to us to understand.”
Pablo Picasso

3. José Ruiz Blasco ( )
Artist

4. Maria Picasso y Lopez 1855-1939)
Picasso grew up in a matriarchal home. This household
consisted of his mother, 2 sisters, 2 aunts, his grandmother
and a maidservant.

5. Pablo & Lola

6. Lola (1899)

7. Conchita Picasso/Died Jan 10th 1895/Age 8

8. Pact with God
When Picasso’s young sister was dying, he prayed to God that he
would never pick up a brush again if He let Conchita live. He was
torn between wanting her saved and wanting her dead so that
his gift would be saved. When she died, he decided that God was
evil and destiny an enemy. His guilt was enormous. He came to
believe that he had powers that could affect the world around him.
After Conchita’s death, the family moved to Barcelona.

10. Picasso’s Las Menina’s
Painter more important than rest of painting.

11. Picasso settled in Paris in 1904
Picasso settled in Paris in He was fascinated by the city’s Bohemian
streets. He expressed that human misery by portraying blind figures, beggars,
and alcoholics in his paintings. It was at this time that he also experienced the
death of a close friend. Hence , the various shades of blue that dominated his
work for the next few years.
Blue Period
What famous Surrealist painter was born in 1904?

12. Self-Portrait

13. The Old Guitarist

14. Picasso meets Fernande Olivier, the first of many companions to influence the
theme, style, and mood of his work. This happy relationship changed his
palette to pinks and reds. Many of the paintings that he painted during this
period were drawn from the circus, which he visited several times a week.
Rose Period

15. Lady With Fan (1905)

16. Paulo his son as Harlequin (1924)

17. Early Cubism

18. George Braque Pablo Picasso along with George Braque
Surrealist Paul Eluard said of Picasso, he
paints like God or the devil.” “I am God,” he
was once heard telling himself.
George Braque
Pablo Picasso along with George Braque
painted landscapes made of “little cubes,”
leading to the term cubism. The two
worked together from
One of the primary goals of cubism was to
depart from the traditional understanding
of perspective and spatial cues.
*Who was Surrealist, Paul Eluard, married to at
one time?

19. Landscape with Bridge (1909)

20. Bread, Fruit, and Table (1908)

21. Cubism
analytic
&
synthetic

22. CONCEPTUAL
VS.
PERCEPTUAL

23. Analytic Cubism: Is concerned with breaking
down and analyzing form and together developed
the 1st phase, known as analytic cubism.
Monochromatic color
schemes were favored in
their depictions of
radically fragmented
motifs, whose several
sides were shown
simultaneously.

24. Wilhelm Uhde (1910)

25. Ambroise Vollard (1910)

26. Guitar and Violin (1912)

27. SYNTHETIC CUBISM Analytic Cubism marked the transition to Synthetic
Analytic Cubism marked the transition to Synthetic Cubism. This
second phase was more decorative and color plays a major role.

28. The Three Musicians

29. Synthetic Cubism is the experimental nature of the Collage
construction process rather than the analytical process
and deconstruction of Analytical Cubism. It is also more
decorative and appealing and somewhat easier to interpret.
Pasting an actual oil cloth onto the canvas.
Braque had begun putting material
besides paint on his canvases. He also
used sand, sawdust, and iron fillings.

30. Pablo Picasso died on April 8, 1973.
Señor Picasso died without a will. His
son Claude was named executor of the
estate. His first duty was to find a home
for the 76,000 items left at the time of
his death.
Picasso Museum of Art in Paris

31. First Wife Olga Khokhlova (1923) Son/Paulo Grandchildren: Pablito,
Marina, and Bernard

32. Mother and Child
Birth of his son Paulo led to his mother and child themes.

33. Francoise Gilot
Later married Dr. Jonas Salk
She gave birth to claude and Paloma.

34. Paloma and Claude (1950)

35. Jacqueline Roque
Wife at the time of his death.

36. In June of this year, a sketchbook containing 33 drawings of
Picasso was stolen from the Picasso Art Museum in Paris. The
sketchbook has a cover that is titled “Album” in gilded letters.
Because of this theft, the museum has been closed until security
can be improved. The most recent theft before the June 11,
2009 heist was in February of This robbery took place at
the home of Picasso’s granddaughter Diana Wiamaier Picasso.
The two stolen paintings are worth $70 million dollars. The
“Album” is worth between $9.8- $14 million dollars.
Señora McKay does not know anything!