Project on the topic“Pablo Picasso – My Favorite Painter”

Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de

los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso.
Died - 8 April 1973 (aged 91) (Mougins, France)
Nationality – Spanish.
Field - Painting, drawing, sculpture printmaking, ceramics, stage design.
Movement – Cubism.

painter and art professor. Pablo showed artistic talent from a

very early age – his first word was the spanish for “pencil”. At age 13, his father convinced the school of fine arts to take him on as a student and rented him a room so that he could have somewhere he could be alone to paint.

to Paris. He stayed there and lived among a group

of fellow artists, poets and writers, most of whom became famous. He was very poor, sometimes burning his paintings to keep warm. In 1905, he became a favorite of an influential american art patron living in Paris, Gertrude Stein. She would help launch his career.

and World War II, refusing to fight for any side

or country. In 1944, he joined the communist party, although he had some differences with them and was never an ardent communist.
Picasso had many relationships over his lifetime with different women. He married twice and had four children with three different women.

for the style, mood, and colors he used. His Blue

Period is full of sad, serious paintings mostly done in blues and greens. The figures in these paintings look thin and hungry.

and pinks and featuring many circus people and acrobats. Harlequins

would become a symbol for Picasso that would repeat in his paintings for years.

style of painting called “Cubism”. The artists analyzed subjects and

broke them down into the shapes that composed them. 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.

German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. It

was a statement about the brutality and hopelessness of war.

was hired to create a huge (50 foot high) public

sculpture to be built in Chicago. He was excited about the project, designing something very ambiguous and controversial. What it is meant to represent, no one really knows, is it a bird, a horse, a woman, or something abstract? Picasso refused the $100,000 fee he was offered, instead donating the sculpture to the people of Chicago.

money to live very well and being a celebrity. In

addition to his enormous body of work he also had a film career, appearing in several films. He always played himself.
Pablo Picasso died on April 8, 1973 in Mougins, France while he and his wife were having a dinner party.

sculptures, 2,880 ceramics, about 12,000 drawings, thousands of prints and

many tapestries and rugs

spot, but there are others who with the help of

their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun”
Pablo Picasso

taxes were paid in the form of paintings – his

own and some he collected by other artists. These paintings are housed in the Musée Picasso in Paris.
Several paintings by Picasso 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.