3. HE HAD TWO SISTERS CALLED LOLA AND CONCHA
AND ACCORDING TO HIS MUMMY HIS FIRST WORDS
WERE “PIZ, PIZ”, A SHORTENING OF LAPIZ .
4. HIS DAD CALLED JOSÉ WAS ALSO A PAINTER
AND PABLO DRAW HIS FIRST WORKS IN HIS
DAD’S ATELIER.
5. ONE NIGHT, HIS FATHER FOUND HIM PAINTING OVER HIS
UNFINISHED SKETCH OF A PIGEON. OBSERVING THE
PRECISION OF HIS SON’S TECHNIQUE HE FELT THAT PABLO
HAD SURPASSED HIM AND VOWED TO GIVE UP PAINTING.
6. AT THE AGE OF FOURTEEN HE PAINTED A WONDERFUL
PICTURE OF HIS MUMMY. SHE WAS QUITE WORRIED BY THE
FACT THAT PABLO WAS NOT A VERY GOOD STUDENT AT
SCHOOL BUT SHE REALISED THAT HE WOULD BECOME A
GREAT ARTIST ONE DAY.
7. THE WHOLE FAMILY MOVED FIRSTLY TO LA CORUÑA AND THEN TO
BARCELONA WHERE HIS DADDY TOOK A POSITION AT A SCHOOL OF
FINE ARTS. THEN PABLO MOVED TO MADRID BUT QUIT ATTENDING
CLASSES SOON AS HE DIDN’T LIKE FORMAL INSTRUCTION.
8. WHEN HE WAS NINETEEN YEARS OLD HE TRAVELLED TO PARIS,
FRANCE. HIS DADDY BOUGHT HIM A RETURN TICKET AND
THERE PICASSO SAW DIFFERENT TECHNIQUES AND WAYS OF
PAINTING.
9. THESE WORKS BELONG TO THE “BLUE
PERIOD” WHERE HE MAINLY PAINTED USING
BLUE TO EXPRESS HIS PROFOUND SADNESS.
10. THE “ROSE PERIOD” WAS A HAPPIER TIME FOR
PABLO. HIS MOOD HAD CHANGED AND SO DID HIS
PAINTINGS. HE NO LONGER USED BLUE BUT
BRIGHTER COLOURS .
13. PABLO WAS ALSO A CERAMICIST, A SCULPTOR
AND THE FIRST ONE CREATING THE COLLAGE.
14. ONE OF HIS MOST WELL-KNOWN PAINTINGS IS “GUERNICA”. WHILE LIVING IN
FRANCE, PABLO FOUND OUT ON THE NEWSPAPERS THAT A VILLAGE IN THE
NORTH OF SPAIN HAD BEEN BOMBED. IT HAS BECOME A PERPETUAL REMINDER
OF THE TRAGEDIES OF WAR.
