Pablo Picasso

b. Oct. 25, 1881 in Malaga, Spain

d. April 8, 1973 in Mougins, France
-generally considered the greatest artist of the 20th c.
-an innovator of styles and techniques and a master of
various media.
-created over 20,000 works in his lifetime.

GUERNICA
11 ft, 6 in. x 25 ft, 8 in.
1937
Oil on canvas
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofa
-commissioned by the government of the Spanish Republic in 1937 for the Spanish
Pavillion in the Paris World Fair (Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques
Dans La Vie Moderne)

CUBISM
-objects are broken up, analyzed, and reassembled in an abstracted form instead of
rendering objects from a single, fixed angle. The artist depicts the subject from
multiple angles simultaneously as an attempt to present the subject in the most

2 Types:

1. Analytical - bright colors are removed, using only monochromatic

earth tones so that the focus would be primarily on the structure.
Analytical cubist paintings look as if they have deconstructed
objects that are rearranged on canvas.

2. Synthetic - works of art are composed of distinct superimposed

parts, and are characterized by brighter colors. Unlike analytical
cubism, which fragmented objects into its composing parts or facets,
synthetic cubism attempted more to bring many different objects
together to create new forms.