Pablo Picasso was a highly influential Spanish painter born in 1881. He began painting and drawing at a very young age and showed early talent that was recognized by his father. Picasso experimented with different artistic styles throughout his career, including his Blue Period where he depicted sadness, his Rose Period featuring more cheerful scenes, and his revolutionary Cubist Period where he broke objects down into geometric forms. Later in his career, Picasso painted his monumental anti-war piece "Guernica" depicting the brutality of the Spanish Civil War. He had connections to the Surrealist movement as well. Picasso was one of the most famous and impactful artists of the 20th century.

1. Pablo Picasso

2. Biography
• Pablo Picasso was
a spanish painter.
Is one of the
greatest and most
influential artists
of the 20th
century.

3. Early Years
• Pablo Picasso was born on
October 25, 1881 in
Malaga.
• He started painting and
drawing at a very young
age.
• Picasso’s father recognized
Pablo’s talent at his young
age.
• Picasso never finished his
studies at the Academy of
Arts in Madrid.
Picasso's first painting at age 8, “Picador”
(1889).

4. Blue Period
Performed works that used the blues, almost all
denote much sadness in them shows elongated
figures of beggars and characters of the street.

6. Rose Period
• Picasso enters a period more
cheerful and paints scenes of
clowns and circuses, with a
colorful brighter.
“Maternidad” 1905

8. Cubism Period
In late 1906, Picasso
started to paint in a truly
revolutionary manner.
Inspired by
Cezanne, he began to
express space in
strongly geometrical
terms:
triangles, squares.
“Las señoritas de Avignon”1906

10. The Guernica
By the late 30s, Picasso was the most famous artist in the world. He was
called upon to depict the brutality of fascist aggression In the Spanish
Civil War with his monumental "Guernica".

11. Pablo Picasso and Surrealism
• Pablo Picasso relationship with
this current was never official,
However, he had close ties and
contacts with this movement
and his ideas.

12. Sergio Gascueña