Pablo Picasso 1881-1973

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Pablo Picasso1881-1973

• One of the greatest artists of the twentieth
  century.
• He was a great painter.
• He also made sculptures, prints, drawings,
  beautifully colored dishes and bowls, and
  costumes and scenery for plays.

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A little background information

• Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain in 1881.
• His father was an art teacher and encouraged his
  son to paint and draw.
• Picasso was always trying new and different ways
  to express his talent.
• His painting style changed more than any other
  artist.

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Painting Styles

• He would paint things that would look very flat.
• He would then paint things that looked so round
  that it seemed like you could pick them off the
  painting.
• At 19, he moved to France and began painting like
  other French artists such as Van Gogh, Gauguin,
  and Monet.

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Blue Period

• Picassos best friend died and he felt alone and
  sad.
• Also, he was almost starving to death because his
  paintings were not selling.
• Because of his mood, he began to paint using lots
  of blue.
• All of the people in his paintings looked lonely
  and sad.

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Rose Period

• Picasso fell in love with a girl named Fernande.
  
• A happier color showed up in his paintings and he
  began to paint happier things.

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Cubism

• Picasso developed this style of painting and made
  it famous.
• These paintings look like he broke the subjects
  up into little cubes.

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Guernica

• In 1937 a civil war in Spain left a small town
  called Guernica destroyed by bombs.
• Many innocent people were killed which made
  Picasso very angry.
• He created a huge painting (12 feet high and 25
  feet wide) and used darker colors, cubism, and
  lots of expression to show his angry feelings.

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Pablo Picasso

• Picasso lived to be ninety-two years old and died
  in the south of France.
• Besides his art, Picassos quotes are still
  popular and provide us with an insight into his
  mind..
• All children are artists. The problem is how
  to remain an artist once he grows up.