Pablo Ruiz Picasso[a][b] (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture,[8][9] the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and the anti-war painting Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War.
Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a naturalistic manner through his childhood and adolescence. During the first decade of the 20th century, his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. After 1906, the Fauvist work of the slightly older artist Henri Matisse motivated Picasso to explore more radical styles, beginning a fruitful rivalry between the two artists, who subsequently were often paired by critics as the leaders of modern art.
Picasso's work is often categorized into periods. While the names of many of his later periods are debated, the most commonly accepted periods in his work are the Blue Period (1901–1904), the Rose Period (1904–1906), the African-influenced Period (1907–1909), Analytic Cubism (1909–1912), and Synthetic Cubism (1912–1919), also referred to as the Crystal period. Much of Picasso's work of the late 1910s and early 1920s is in a neoclassical style, and his work in the mid-1920s often has characteristics of Surrealism. His later work often combines elements of his earlier styles.
Exceptionally prolific throughout the course of his long life, Picasso achieved universal renown and immense fortune for his revolutionary artistic accomplishments, and became one of the best-known figures in 20th-century art.
Picasso was born at 23:15 on 25 October 1881, in the city of Málaga, Andalusia, in southern Spain.[2] He was the first child of Don José Ruiz y Blasco (1838–1913) and María Picasso y López.[14] Picasso's family was of middle-class background. His father was a painter who specialized in naturalistic depictions of birds and other game. For most of his life, Ruiz was a professor of art at the School of Crafts and a curator of a local museum.[1] Ruiz's ancestors were minor aristocrats.
n 1895, Picasso was traumatized when his seven-year-old sister, Conchita, died of diphtheria.[19] After her death, the family moved to Barcelona, where Ruiz took a position at its School of Fine Arts. Picasso thrived in the city, regarding it in times of sadness or nostalgia as his true home.[20] Ruiz persuaded the officials at the academy to allow his son to take an entrance exam for the advanced class. This process often took students a month, but Picasso completed it in a week, and the jury admitted
14. CUBIST PERIOD (ANALYTICAL)
LINES ARE VISIBLE THEN EVER
BEFORE, BRINGING A
SCULPTURAL LOOK. A
HARMONY BETWEEN LINE AND
SHAPE
SHADE AND SHADOW ARE
MUCH MORE DOMINANT AND
HARD IN CONTRAST IN
PURPOSE OF IMPOSING A 3D
AND SCULPTURAL OUTLOOK
21. Pablo Ruiz Picasso
- Born in 1881
- Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer
- At the age of 7, his father gave Pablo formal training in figure drawing and oil painting
- At the age of 13, he got admitted at the School of Fine Arts, Barcelona
The various styles, Movements and Periods of Picasso’s Art can be defined as following:
Early Period (1889-1900)
Blue Period (1901-1904)
Rose Period (1904-1906)
African Art and Primitivism (1907-1909)
Analytic Cubism (1909- 1919)
Neoclassicism and Surrealism (1919-1929)
The Spanish Civil War (1930-1949)
Later Works to Final Years (1949-1972)
Pa b l o R u i z P i c a s s o
Alicante saw the boat, 1895
22. A N A LY S I S
Early Period (1889-1900)
Picador, 1889
- The very first Oil-painting of Picasso.
- Done at the age of 8.
- Inspired by his first attendance of the bullfight.
- It is Subjective yet room for Imagination.
- Distorted Perspective
- Inclination towards Expressionism
23. A N A LY S I S
Early Period (1889-1900)
Science and Charity, 1897
- One of the most significant works in this period.
- A usual genre painting.
- Inspired by Renaissance Masters work.
- Execution of Expressionism.
- Realistic Perspective.
- Inclination towards Realism.
24. Head of a Woman, 1902
- This Period began as a provocation of a
long-lasting depression .
- Objects were sharply-contoured.
- Abandoned the tradition of perspective drawing.
- Grey-blue and light -blue-green deep cold colors.
- Colors of sorrow and low spirits are constant.
A N A LY S I S
Blue Period (1901-1904)
The Old Guitarist, 1903
25. A N A LY S I S
- The Rose Period was relatively short.
- The advent of pearl gray, ocher, pink and red tones.
- New topics, such as actors, acrobats, athletes.
- Real forms, dimensions and spaces.
- Paintings were once again filled with life.
Rose Period (1904-1906)
The Family of Saltimbanques, 1905
26. A N A LY S I S
- Monumentalized and simplified the shapes.
- Characters’ faces started to resemble ritual masks.
- Rough shading on the picturesque planes.
- The fusion of characters with surroundings
was the main theme.
- Background seems as tangible as the figures.
- Give the impression of clumsy bas-reliefs roughly
carved out of natural materials.
African Art and Primitivism (1907-1909)
The Young Ladies of Avignon, 1907 Head of a Woman, 1907
Three Women, 1908
27. A N A LY S I S
- Monumentalized and simplified the shapes.
- Characters’ faces started to resemble ritual masks.
- Rough shading on the picturesque planes.
- The fusion of characters with surroundings
was the main theme.
- Background seems as tangible as the figures.
- Give the impression of clumsy bas-reliefs roughly
carved out of natural materials.
Cubism (1909- 1919)
Woman Playing the
Mandolin, 1909
Three Musicians, 1921
29. PICASSO’S BLUE
PERIOD (PERIODO
AZUL)
BASIC
CHARACTERISTICS
• monochromatic
paintings in shades of
blue and blue-green,
only occasionally
warmed by other colors.
• the mood of these
paintings is melancholy,
without the hint of
satire of his earlier work
• They are both stoic and
a little sentimental.
• rigorous drawing, simple
hieratic compositions
30. SUBJECT:
SELF PORTRAIT
AND SINGLE
CHARACTER
PORTRAITS
THEMES:
• MINIMALISM
• MELANCHOLY
SELF PORTRAIT
(1901)
The work was painted
shortly after the
suicide of his friend
Carlos Casagemas,
committed when
Picasso was still a
The Absinthe Drinker:
PORTRAIT OF ANGEL
FERNANDEZ DE SOTO
(1903)
significant depth is
brought by not only using
is minimalist skills but a
contrast of dark and
bright colors,
Portrait of Suzanne Bloch
(1904)
The painting, fully imbued
with a somber, melancholy
aura, is rendered in
monochromatic shades,
varying from blue to blue-
green, with the sporadic
31. Breakfast of a Blind Man
(1903)
The composition presents a
forlorn figure seated at a
frugal repast. The painting is
not merely a portrait of a
blind man; it is also Picasso's
commentary on human
suffering in general. the work
elicits affinities to Picasso's
own situation at the time,
when, impoverished and
depressed, he closely
SUBJECT:
SOLITARY
FIGURES
THEMES:
• OWN IMAGE OF
THE ARTIST
• SADNESS
• DEPRESSION
• POVERTY
• DESPAIR
• DESOLATION
• UNHAPPINESS
• DEJECTION
THE OLD GUITARIST
depiction of Picasso
himself as a
tormented soul in
despair and poverty.
Encompasses
Picasso's fascination
with the societal
outcasts he saw
The death of Casegemus
the painting is clearly
inspired from the same
event that started the blue
period. Picasso depicted his
buddy Casegemus in a
coffin, after his suicide in
Paris. The blue and eerie
shade of colors depict a
32. SUBJECT:
WOMEN
THEMES:
• SOLITUDE
• SADNESS
• MYSTERY
• INTRIGUE
LE BOCK
Portrait De Jaime
Sabartes
Depicts a gesture of a
woman in solitude. a
fugitive hallucination of
his own restlessness,
tormented by the
discovery of his friend
peering into the abyss of
his loneliness.
Femme aux Bras
Croisés
Her negative body
language of folded arms
immediately closes her
off from analysis rather
cleverly. the image is
dominated by shades of
blue connoting a sense
Femme assise au
capuchon
