Pablo Picasso was a Spanish artist born in 1881 in Malaga, Spain. He revolutionized painting, drawing, sculpture and ceramics by inventing new styles and techniques. As a child, he displayed artistic talent and received encouragement from his artist father. He later studied art in Barcelona and developed styles such as his Blue Period featuring sad themes, his happier Rose Period, his Cubist style using geometric shapes, his Surrealist works, and his anti-war painting Guernica inspired by the bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. Picasso is considered one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.

1. Pablo Ruiz Picasso

2. ¿Who was Pablo Ruiz Picasso?
• Pablo Picasso was a
Spanish artist and
painter, who
revolutionized not only
painting, drawing,
sculpture and ceramics,
but the way in which
the public appreciate
art.

3. ¿Where was he born?
• Picasso was born in
Malaga, a big and sunny
city in the south coast
of Andalusia, in 1881.
• His father, José Ruiz
Blasco, was also an
artist, art teacher and
Picasso´s first teacher.

4. …
• When he was 10 years
old his family move to
La Coruña, where he
continues to study art
and both his father and
his mother, Maria
Picasso, give him full
support, trust and
encouragement.

5. As an adult …
He get into the High
School of Arts in
Barcelona. He
wants to be a
modern artist and
invent a new way of
painting.

6. As an adult …
To improve paints a lot.
He´s inspired by
everything he see on
their trips to Paris and
Spain.

7. Picasso is…..
• Picasso is considered
the most important
20th century artist and
one of the most
influential in the
development of
modern art. There are
over 1500 of his works
in museums around the
world.

8. Blue period
• He made works
that used the
blues. Almost all
of them denote
much sadness
and show
elongated figures
of beggars and
street
characters.

9. Pink period
• Picasso goes into a happier period and paints scenes of
clowns and circuses, with a colorful brighter.
• The Rose Period began in 1904 and lasted until 1907.

10. Cubist period
• He is looking for a pure painting and
begins to observe objects in his
workshop through an intellectual way
and looking at them figures basic
geometric.

11. Surrealism period
• At this time he uses the
distorted shapes and
represents the monstrous part
of each live being.

12. Expressionism period: Guernica
Guernica was pinted as a reaction to the Nazi's devastating casual
bombing practice on the Basque town of Guernica during Spanish Civil
War. It shows the tragedies of war and the suffering it inflicts upon
individuals, particularly innocent civilians. It has become in an anti-war
symbol.

13. Made by: Isabel Mª. Trigo Illana
Translated by: Ana Mª. Sánchez Rodríguez