3. Life
• Full name, Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula
Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios
Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso
(25. October 1881. – 8. April 1973.)
• Spanish painter
• Mid-class family
• Academy with 13yo
• Madrid’s Royal Academy with 16yo
• Paris, 1900
4. Painting periods
• Early life
• Blue period
• Rose period
• African influence period
• Cubism
• Classicism
5. Early life (Before 1901.)
• Picasso Museum, Barcelona
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• Jose – Father 1896.
Maria – Mother 1896.
6. Blue period (1901–1904.)
• Blue and blue-green colors
• Prostitutes and beggars
Self-portrait - 1901. Two sisters – 1902.
7. Rose period (1904-1906.)
• Orange and pink colors
• Circus people and harlequins
Harlequin with glass – 1905.
Boy with the pipe – 1905
9. Cubism and Classicism (from
1907.)
• Starting with Picasso
• Avant-garde of 20th century
• Inspired by music and literature
Three musicians – 1921.
Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, 1910
10. German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War – 1937.
“It isn’t up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it
would be better if he wrote them out in so many words! The
public who look at the picture must interpret the symbols as
they understand them.”