Pablo Picasso was a highly influential Spanish painter and sculptor. He showed artistic talent from a young age and had his first exhibition at age 13. During his long career, Picasso helped pioneer cubism and collage, radically changing European painting. He had many relationships and children with different women. Picasso was prolific until his death at 91, leaving over 50,000 works of art that demonstrate his extraordinary creativity and revolutionary approach to art.

1. Pablo Picasso
Minja Čule II-4
Filološka gimnazija, Beograd
2012/2013.

3. Early life
Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor,
printmaker and stage designer.
Picasso showed a passion and a skill for drawing
from an early age.
His father Ruiz persuaded the officials at the
academy to allow his son to take an entrance
exam for the advanced class and later jury
admitted him, at just 13.

5. Career beginning
Picasso made his first trip to Paris in 1900, then
the art capital of Europe. There, he met his first
Parisian friend, the journalist and poet Max
Jacob.
These were times of severe poverty, cold, and
desperation. He had big financial problems and
he burned many of his paintings to stay warm.
Pablo had his first exibitat age 13, when he
showed his paintings in the umbrella store.
At 16 he was sent to Royal Academy of Madrid.

6. He was very cruel to women. He had many affairs
and many lovers.
Some of his lovers were: Olivier, Eva Gouel, Ogla
Khokhlova (he married her in 1918.), Maria
Therese Walter, Dora Maar.
He had 2 children with Olga. Their names were
Maya and Paulo.

7.  - Fernande Olivier (Picasso's first love, she was 18?;
he was 23)
- Marcelle Humbert - Eva Gouel (she was 27,
Picasso was 31)
- Gaby Lespinasse (he was 34 she was younger)
- Olga Khokhlova (Picasso's first wife; she was 26
and he was 36 when they met)
- Marie-Thérèse Walter (she was 17, he was 46)
- Dora Maar (she was 29, Picasso was 55)
- Françoise Gilot (she was 21 when she met
Picasso, who was 61)
- Geneviève Laporte (one of Picasso's last lovers.
She was in her mid-twenties and a French model of
Picasso, who was in his seventies when the affair
started)
- Jacqueline Roque (who became Picasso's second
wife. She was 27 and he was 79)

9. Marie-Thérèse became jealous when
Picasso fell in love with Dora Maar, a
surrealist photographer and model for
Picasso, in 1935. She was born
Henriette Theodora Marković in Paris,
France. Her father, Josip Markovic, was
a Croatian architect.

10. Do ra Maar

11. For him she was the "woman in tears" in many
aspects. During their love affair, she suffered
from his moods, and hated that in 1943 he found
a new lover, Françoise Gilot. She was 40 years
younger than he was. In her 1964 book Life with
Picasso,Gilot describes his abusive treatment
and myriad infidelities which led her to leave him,
taking the children with her. This was a severe
blow to Picasso.

12. Françoise Gilot

13. Picasso was married twice and had four
children by three women. His second woman
was Jacqueline Roque. Their marriage lasted
20 years until his death, during which time he
created more than 400 portraits of her.
By this time, Picasso had constructed a huge
Gothic home, and could afford large villas in the
south of France.

18. The years between 1901 and 1904 were
known as Picasso's Blue Period.
Nearly all of his works were executed in
somber shades of blue and contained lean,
melancholy, and introspective concentrating
on their own thoughts) figures.
Two outstanding examples of this period are
the Old Guitarist (1903) and Life (1903).

21. In the second half of 1904 Picasso's style
took a new direction. In these paintings the
color became more natural, delicate, and
tender in its range, with reddish and pink
tones dominating the works. Thus this
period was called his Pink Period. The
most celebrated example of this phase is
the Family of Saltimbanques (1905).

23. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon is
generally regarded as the first
cubist painting. The faces of the
figures are seen from both front and
profile positions at the same time.

25. Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken
up and reassembled in an abstracted form—
instead of depicting objects from one
viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a
multitude of viewpoints to represent the
subject in a greater context.
Picasso's first, and probably his most
celebrated, collage is Still Life with Chair
Caning (1911–1912).

27. After Picasso experimented with the new
medium of collage, he returned more
intensively to painting.
The Three Musicians represents a classical
expression of cubism.
One of Picasso's most celebrated paintings
of the 1930s is Guernica (1937) It depicts
the destruction by bombing of the town of
Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.

29. Guernica

34. Interesting facts
 During the Second World War, Picasso remained in Paris while
the Germans occupied the city.
 Around this time, Picasso took up writing as an alternative outlet.
Between 1935 and 1959 he wrote over 300 poems.
 Picasso's Full Name Has 23 Words (Pablo Diego José Francisco
de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de
la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso).
 Picasso had such a difficult birth and was such a weak baby that
when he was born, the midwife thought that he was stillborn so
she left him on a table to attend his mother. It was his uncle, a
doctor named Don Salvador, that saved him.

35. Picasso`s first
painting

36. Did Picasso Steal the Mona Lisa?
Actually no, but in 1911, when the Mona
Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, the police
took in Picasso's friend, the poet Guillaume
Apollinaire. Apollinaire fingered Picasso as
a suspect, so the police hauled him in for
questioning. Both were later released.

37. It is estimated that Picasso produced
50,000 pieces of art.
In 1967, Picasso made a public
sculpture in downtown Chicago call
the Chicago Picasso. He donated it
to the city of Chicago and would not
accept payment. No one knows what
the sculpture represents.

39. Death
Pablo Picasso died on 8 April 1973 in France,
while he and his wife Jacqueline entertained
friends for dinner. His final words were "Drink to
me, drink to my health, you know I can't drink
any more.“
Devastated and lonely after the death of
Picasso, Jacqueline Roque took her own life by
gunshot in 1986 when she was 59 years old.

40. “Art is the lie that enables us
to realize the truth.”
~Pablo Picasso