1. PABLO PICASSO.
By:
Charo Cabanes.

2. PABLO PICASSO. My name is Pablo Picasso.
I was born in the Spanish town of Málaga in 1881.
Ever since I was a boy, I liked to paint.
My father was a painter and Art Teacher.

3. PABLO PICASSO. My first drawings were of bulls and doves.
I did them when I was just 9 years old.
A child with a dove.

4. PABLO PICASSO.
My father passed on to me his love of doves and bulls.

5. PABLO PICASSO. I studied arts at La Coruña, Barcelona and Madrid.
But academic studies never excited me...
My dream was to visit Paris.

6. PARIS IN BLUE AND PINK. I arrived in Paris in 1900.
There I set about discovering the artistic movements of the period.
There was so much to learn!!!!
Suddenly, my best friend Carlos died.
I was very sad and I started to paint everything in BLUE.

8. PARIS IN BLUE AND PINK. Soon afterwards I fell in LOVE.
I began to paint everything using PINK.
At that time I spent a lot of time at the circus. So, I painted harlequins, jugglers and clowns.

10. CUBISM. A NEW WAY OF SEEING. Why paint things to look so real?
Could be there be another way to represent objects and figures?
I started to experiment with new materials, made collages, sculptures, ceramics,...
And I found a new language:
CUBISM.

11. WAR AND ART. In 1935 the Spanish Civil War started.
A new change took place in my life.
I was shocked by sad news:
The Basque city of GUERNICA was cruelly bombed and destroyed in April of 1937, during the Spanish Civil War.
I painted a mural as big as a wall, in one month.

12. THE GUERNICA. I painted:
I painted all in BLACK AND WHITE. No colours to show the suffering of the WAR.
I painted:
THE GUERNICA.

13. With this electric light Picasso said that this is not a natural dissaster, this is a MAN MADE DISSASTER. THIS IS A WAR.

14. What can you see? A bull watching the dissaster. A man burning!.
A woman crying with her dead baby.
A soldier dead in pieces on the ground.

15. I lived a passionate life.
I never returned to Spain.
I died in Mougins, France, on the 8th of April of 1973.
I was 92 years old.

16. This is my portrait.
Do you like painting?

17. TASK: Paste the self portrait of Pablo Picasso in your book
Recall the information shared and brainstorm around the picture