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What?
Who?
Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright.
He is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore.
Acrobat and
Young Harlequin
The Old Guitarist
1903
1905
Periods of His Work
How?
When?
He was born October 25, 1881 and died April 8, 1973.
The medium in which Picasso made his most important contribution was painting. In his paintings, Picasso used color as an expressive element, but relied on drawing rather than subtleties of color to create form and space.
Head of a
Sleeping Woman
1907
Guitar, Clarinet, and
Bottle on a Pedestal Table
- Blue Period (1901–1904), characterized by somber paintings rendered in shades of blue and blue-green
- Rose Period (1904–1906), characterized by a more cheery style with orange and pink colors, and featuring many circus people
- African-Influenced Period (1907–1909)
- Cubism Period(1909–1912) is a style of painting Picasso developed with Georges Braque using monochrome brownish and neutral colors
- Crystal Period (1915–1917), Picasso began a series of paintings depicting highly geometric and minimalist Cubist objects
1916
Where?
Why?
He was born in the city of Málaga in the Andalusian region of Spain. The family moved to A Coruña in 1891 but after his sister died of diphtheria the family moved to Barcelona. However, he spent most of his adult life in France.
Picasso remained personally neutral during World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II, aside from several anti-war paintings that he created such as Guernica. During one search of his apartment by the Gestapo an officer saw a photograph of the painting Guernica and asked, "Did you do that?" to which he replied, "No, you did".
Girl with a
Mandolin
1910
Guernica
1937