Pablo Picasso

By: Alexandra Shalikashvili

The Old Guitarist The three Musicians

 Born in Malaga, Spain in 1881, Pablo Picasso would grow up to become one of the most

inspirational and well respected painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer of

all time. Picassos father was an artist, growing up they would always paint together and he

would teach young Picasso the different ways of art. At school he would always get in trouble

for doodling instead of doing school work. Many times he would be punished by having to sit

alone in a room, with only a piece of paper and pencil, but Picasso like this because it gave him

much time to practice and get better. When Picasso was 14 his family moved out to Barcelona,

Spain, where he applied for the city's prestigious Fine Arts school and passed the enterance exam

with flying colors. However Picasso was very pleased to be accepted into this school he often

found himself skipping classes to roam the streets of Barcelona in order to find a beautiful

landscape to sketch. When he was 16 Picasso moved again to a different school, but yet again

found himself in the same situation. Finally in 1899 He moved backed to Barcelona and joined a

group of artists and intellectuals who met at a little cafe. With this group Picasso decided to

transition from the more traditional ways of painting to a more experimental form. This decision

was the kickstart of his career.

In 1900, Picasso moved to Paris, France, there he opened his very own art studio. Many

people categorize picassos career into different periods. The blue period (1901-1904), included

famous paintings such as "Blue Nude," "La Vie" and "The Old Guitarist,". The rose period

(1904-1906) included "Family at Saltimbanques" (1905), "Gertrude Stein" (1905-06) and "Two

Nudes" (1906). In the Break into cubism from 1907 to around 1918, Pablo Picasso produced a

painting unlike anything he had ever painted before "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," he also

painted "Three Women" (1907), "Bread and Fruit Dish on a Table" (1909) and "Girl with
Mandolin" (1910). His next period was very classical therefore it was named the Classical

period. This was due to the world war I , because he wanted his work to depict a real world sort

of feeling. "Three Women at the Spring" (1921), "Two Women Running on the Beach/The

Race" (1922) and "The Pipes of Pan" (1923), were the most important paintings from this period.

In Picassos next period of work he focused on the philosophical and cultural movement at the

time. This was called Surrealism, at this time Picasso painted a piece named, Guernica. This

was painted in black, white and grays, the work is a Surrealist testament to the horrors of war,

and features several human-like figures in various states of terror. Guernica remains one of the

most moving and powerful anti-war paintings in history.After this picasso did a few pieces, but

none would outshine his Guernica.

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