Picasso was born in Spain and received formal artistic training from his father. He demonstrated exceptional artistic ability at a young age. Throughout his career, Picasso experimented with different styles including the Blue Period, Rose Period, African-influenced works, Cubism, Neoclassicism, and Surrealism. His most famous work is the anti-war painting Guernica, depicting the suffering inflicted by war on civilians.

1. PICASSO

2. • Was born in Málaga, Andalucía, Spain.
• His father was a painter and art professor. Picasso received
formal artistic training from his father in figure drawing and oil
painting.
• 1891. His father saw him painting over his unfinished sketch of a
pigeon. Picasso’s father felt that his 13 year old son had
surpassed him.
• 1895 they moved to Barcelona, where his father took a position
at its School of Fine Arts. He 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 day, and the impressed jury admitted him; he was 13.

3. First known painting of Picasso:
He was 8 years old

4. Plaster male torso
1893

5. “Academical study” 1895

6. “The old fisherman” 1895

7. “The Quarries” 1895

8. “The first Communion” 1895

9. “Portrait of aunt Pepa”

10. • Picasso’s father decided to send him to Madrid’s Royal Academy
of San Fernando, the country's prime art school, he was 16.

12. ”Head of a man in el
Greco style”

13. • Picasso made his first trip to Paris, the art capital of Europe at
that time.
• These were times of severe poverty, cold, and desperation. Much
of his work was burned to keep his small room warm!

14. Blue Period 1901 - 1904
•Monochromatic paintings in shades of blue and
blue-green, only occasionally warmed by other
colors.
•Influenced by a journey through Spain and by the
suicide of his friend Carlos Casagemas, in 1901.

20. La Vie

21. The old guitarist

22. The tragedy

23. The blind
man’s meal

24. Rose Period 1904 - 1906
•Picasso's painting used cheerful orange and
pink colors in contrast to the cool, somber
tones of the previous Blue Period.
•Picasso was happy in his relationship with
Fernandine Olivier and she was one of the
reasons for him to change his style of
painting.
•The Rose Period has been considered French
influenced, while the Blue Period more
Spanish influenced.
•Picasso often painted clowns, harlequins
and circus performers.

29. Garçon a la Pipe, 1904
On May 5, 2004 the painting was sold for US$ 104,168,000
at Sotheby's auction in New York City, breaking the record for the amount paid
for an auctioned painting.

30. Black Period 1907–1909
•African influenced period.
•African artifacts were being brought back to Paris museums in consequence of the
expansion of the French empire into Africa.
•In 1907, Picasso experienced a "revelation" while viewing African art at the
ethnographic museum in Paris.

32. CUBISM
•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.
•In 1907 Picasso painted “The Ladies of Avignon” considered the origins of
Cubism

33. 5 nude female
prostitutes from
a brothel in Barcelona.
Influence of African art
Abandonment of
perspective in favor of a
flat, two-
dimensional picture plane
First time in European
art History

35. First use of collage in fine art

36. Classicism & Surrealism
•In the period following the disorder of World War I, Picasso produced work in
a neoclassical style.

37. “Classicism”

38. “Classicism”

39. “Classicism”

40. Surrealism

41. Surrealism

42. The Guernica
• Created in response to the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian warplanes during
the Spanish Civil War.
• The Spanish Republican government commissioned Picasso to create a large mural for
the Spanish display at the Paris International Exposition at the 1937 World's Fair in Paris.
• Shows the tragedies of war and the suffering it inflicts upon individuals, particularly
innocent civilians.
• It’s now an anti-war symbol.

43. The Guernica
• Grey, black and white, 3.5 metres (11 ft) tall
and 7.8 metres (25.6 ft) wide.
•The overall scene is within a room where, at an
open end on the left, a wide-eyed bull stands
over a woman grieving over a dead child in her
arms.

44. The Guernica
•The centre is occupied by a horse falling in
agony as it had just been run through by a spear
or javelin. The large gaping wound in the horse's
side is a major focus of the painting.

45. The Guernica
Under the horse is a dead,
apparently dismembered soldier;
his hand on a severed arm still
grasps a shattered sword from
which a flower grows.

46. The Guernica
•On the open palm of the dead soldier is a
stigma, a symbol of martyrdom derived from
the stigmata of Christ.

47. The Guernica
• A light bulb blazes in the
shape of an evil eye over the
suffering horse's head (the
bare bulb of the torturer's cell)

48. The Guernica
•To the upper right of the horse, a
frightened female figure, who
seems to be witnessing the scenes
before her, appears to have floated
into the room through a window.
Her arm, also floating in, carries a
flame-lit lamp. The lamp is
positioned very close to the bulb,
and is a symbol of hope, clashing
with the lightbulb.

49. The Guernica
•Daggers that suggest screaming
replace the tongues of the bull,
grieving woman, and horse.

50. The Guernica
•On the far right, a figure with arms
raised in terror is entrapped by fire
from above and below.

51. Guernica tapestry UN, New York
On 5 February 2003 a large blue curtain was placed to cover this work at the UN,
so that it would not be visible in the background whenColin Powell and John
Negroponte gave press conferences at the United Nations.
Bush Administration pressured UN officials to cover the tapestry