1. PABLO
RUIZ
PICASSO
THE LIFE OF AN ARTIS

2. My name is Pablo Ruiz Picasso, and I was born in Malaga in 1881.
My father was an art teacher, and I loved painting and drawing.

3. When I was 14, I made this drawing of The Firts Comunion of my sister
When I was 14, I made this drawing of The Firts Comunion of my sister. And this Portrait of Aunt Pepa.
Do you like them?

4. When I was 19, I went to Paris with my friend Carlos Casagemas.
There we knew the works, scupltures and paintings of the “modernist” artists.
We learned a lot!!

5. My friend Carlos died, and I was really sad.
I wanted to express all this sadness…
What colour could express how sad I was?
Find out!

6. In this BLUE PERIOD, I painted long, lonely and sad people, homeless…
And everything was blue
Two sisters (1902)

7. Can you feel the sadness?
Breakfast of a blind man (1903)
Can you feel the sadness?
The old guitarist (1903)

8. Sometime later, I felt in LOVE and started painting everything in pink.

9. In this period, I also painted lots of things related to the CIRCUS: harlequins, acrobats…

11. I started to make things similar to the AFRICAN MASKS
One day I visited a museum of African art, and I loved it…
I started to make things similar to the AFRICAN MASKS
I had seen.

12. Can you see they are similar??

13. Les Demoisselles D’Avignon
All the influences leaded me to paint a very important picture (or so they say):
Les Demoisselles D’Avignon

14. With the help of my friedn George Braque, we invented a new way of painting things: CUBISM
We began painting figures that were made up of cubes, spheres, cylinders, cones, and other geometric shapes.
Three Musicians

15. I also made some portraits, painting the faces from the front and from one side at the same time. So I put the eyes, mouths and noses where I wanted.

16. There was a Civil War in Spain, and my friends told me the dissasters of war. Inspired on this, I painted
“The Guernica”.

17. One of my drawings became the mundial simbol for PEACE.
When World War II started, I moved to the south of France, and started painting as a child, thanks to the sun, and the sea.
One of my drawings became the mundial simbol for PEACE.
I was very famous and popular, and lots of people came to see me. So I moved to a castle far away form people.

18. “Everything you can imagine is real”
I died in 1973, when I was 92.
During my life I said things like:
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up”
“Everything you can imagine is real”
“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them”
“I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money”