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Title: Pablo Picasso


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Pablo Picasso
(1881 1973) Painter, Sculptor
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Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan
Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la
Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso a.k.a. Pablo
Picasso
  • Picasso was born October 25, 1881 in Málaga,
    Spain.
  • His father was a painter and art professor.
  • His first word was the Spanish word for pencil

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  • Picasso lived in Paris.
  • He was very poor, sometimes burning his paintings
    to keep warm.
  • In Paris Gertrude Stein. She would help launch
    his career.

Family of Saltibanques (1905)
Portrait of Gertrude Stein (1906)
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Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
(1910)kahnweiler was an art dealer who was an
early believer in Picassos talent
  • Picasso lived through World War I, the Spanish
    Civil War, and World War II
  • Picasso had many relationships over his lifetime
    with different women. He married twice and had
    four children with three different women.

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Femme aux Bras Croisés (1902)
  • His Blue Period is full of sad, serious paintings
    mostly done in blues and greens.

The Old Guitarist (1903)
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  • His Rose Period was a bit more upbeat, using
    oranges and pinks and featuring many circus
    people and acrobats.

Boy with a Pipe (1905)
Friendship (1908)
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  • Picasso pioneered a new style of painting called
    Cubism.
  • Cubism is when the artists analyzed subjects and
    broke them down into the most simple shapes
  • Sometimes they cut up pieces of newspaper or
    wallpaper and glued them onto the paintings. This
    was the first time collage was used in fine art.

The Guitar painter (1910)
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Guernica (1937) One of Picassos most famous
paintings, this one represents the German bombing
of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. It was
a statement about the brutality and hopelessness
of war.
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  • Picasso was hugely successful and became a
    celebrity.
  • He also had a film career, appearing in several
    films. He always played himself.
  • Pablo Picasso died on April 8, 1973 in Mougins,
    France.

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Musée Picasso, Paris
The most INTERESTING about Picassos paintings is
that they rank as the most expensive paintings in
the world, selling for over 100 million apiece.
More of his paintings have been stolen than those
of any other artist to date, 550 of his works
are listed as missing.
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