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Facts About Pablo Picasso
Increase your knowledge of facts about Pablo Picasso, the great Spanish painter and sculptor, with some brief, but essential events, and important information about this great artist.  He also worked on ceramics and produced sculptures. Pablo Picasso was trained as an artist in Spain, but moved to Paris in 1900 where he spent much of his life. Known for Developing cubism together with French artist Georges Braque. He adopted primarily colored  palettes leading to his Blue Period and his Rose, or Circus Period. His work was categorised as various periods when he adopted various styles:

  • The Blue Period - 1900

  • The Rose, or Circus Period - 1904 - 1905
  • Classical (1905)
  • Iberian (1906)
  • African Period (1907)
  • Cubist 1907 onwards

Pablo Picasso Styles
The great artist experimented with new and innovative ideas such as Cubism, with Georges Braque,  where objects were represented by cubes, cones, and cylinders. He also experimented with Surrealism which was a dream-like style where subjects are place in unusual positions, side by side, especially for comparison or contrast, called  juxtapositions.

Concise Biography, History & Facts About Pablo Picasso
Full Name - Pablo Ruiz y Picasso
Nationality - Spanish
Place of Birth - Andalucia, Spain
Lifespan - 1881- 1973
Family - Son of  José Ruiz Blasco (1838-1913) an instructor at the School of Fine Arts in Málaga his mother was María Picasso Lopez - from where he chose to take his name
Educated - La Llotja art academy in Barcelona in 1895 - Academia Real de San Fernando in Madrid in 1897
Friends and Associates - Georges Braques, Carles Casagemas, Serge Diaghilev, Guillaume Apollinaire, Gertrude Stein Francoise Gilot, Dora Maar, Andre Breton , Louis Aragon, Paul Eluard, and Jean Cocteau
 

Interesting Facts About the Works of Pablo Picasso

Increase your knowledge of Facts about the famous works of Pablo Picasso. The following list covers work from 1901 - 1905

  • 1901 - Self-portrait with Cloak

  • 1902 - Nude Seen from Behind
  • 1902 - La femme avec la bordure
  • 1903 - The Tragedy
  • 1903 - Le repas d'aveugle
  • 1903 - La Vie / Life
  • 1903 - The Old Guitarist
  • 1904 - L'acteur
  • 1904 - Le repas frugal
  • 1904 - Acrobate à la boule


 

Picasso List of Works - 1905/12 Picasso List of Works - 1917/32Picasso List of Works - 1937/72
1905 - Acrobat and Young Harlequin
1905 - Woman with a Fan
1906 - Boy Leading a Horse
1906 - Nu sur le Fond Rouge
1906 - Self-portrait with a Palette
1906 - Gertrude Stein
1907 - Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
1907 - Self-portrait
1908 - Three Women
1908 - Woman with a Fan
1910 - Portrait of Ambroise Vollard
1912 - Still Life with Chair-Caning
1917 - Portrait de Dora Maar
1917 - Harlequin and Woman with a Necklace
1920 - Portrait de Igor Stravinsky
1921 - Three Musicians
1921 - Woman and Child on the Seashore
1924 - Paul as Harlequin
1925 - Tête et bras de plâtre
1925 - The Dance
1932 - Femme à la fleur
1932 - The Dream
 
1937 - Portrait de Dora Maar
1937 - L'aubade
1937 - Guernica
1941 - Woman Sitting in an Armchair
1951 - Massacre en Corée
1954 - Jacqueline Roque
1955 - La plage à la Garoupe
1957 - Las Meninas
1957 - The Pigeons
1965 - L'aubade
1968 - Musketeer with Pipe and Flowers
1970 - Seated Old Man
1972 - Self Portrait Facing Death

 

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