PABLO PICASSO PICASSO WAS BORN IN SPAIN IN 1881 PICASSO WAS HIS MOTHER’S LAST NAME HIS FATHER, RUIZ, WAS A PAINTER PICASSO STARTED DRAWING AT A YOUNG AGE HIS FIRST WORDS WERE “PIZ PIZ” WHICH COMES FROM THE SPANISH WORD FOR PENCIL LAPIZ HIS FATHER KNEW HE WAS TALENTED. HE TAUGHT PICASSO THE BASICS OF DRAWING AND PAINTING. PICASSO ORIGINAL AT AGE 8 AT 13, PICASSO WENT TO ART SCHOOL WHERE HIS FATHER TAUGHT. HE BEGAN TO PAINT LIKE THIS ... PICASSO AGE 14 PICASSO LEARNED THE BASICS OF FORMAL ART TRAINING ACADEMIC REALISM WHERE WAS THE ART CAPITAL OF EUROPE IN THE 1900’s? CAFE SCENE PICASSO HUNG OUT WITH FAMOUS ART COLLECTORS IN PARIS HE BECAME FRIENDS WITH OTHER ARTISTS LIKE MATISSE HE FREQUENTED CAFES TO TALK ART AND IDEAS PICASSO’S TEEN YEARS HE LIVED AWAY FROM HOME IN PARIS. HE LIVED IN POOR CONDITIONS, AND THIS WAS A HARD TIME IN HIS LIFE. PICASSO BEGAN TO PAINT: SOLITUDE HUNGER MISERY SOCIAL OUTCASTS ! IT IS KNOWN AS HIS … BLUE PERIOD BUT THEN PICASSO FELL IN LOVE HE STARTED PAINTING MORE UPBEAT AND OPTIMISTIC THEMES, INCLUDING CIRCUS PERFORMERS, ACROBATS, AND HARLEQUINS. ! THIS WAS CALLED HIS … ROSE PERIOD PICASSO BECAME INSPIRED BY AFRICAN ART AFRICAN PERIOD THEN PICASSO BECAME RAD HE AND ARTIST GEORGES BRAQUE CREATED A NEW ART FORM CUBISM GEOMETRICAL SUBJECTS ARE ANALYZED, BROKEN UP AND REASSEMBLED INTO AN ABSTRACT FORM OBJECTS ARE VIEWED FROM ALL SIDES ANALYTICAL CUBISM DECONSTRUCTING OBJECTS REMOVING BRIGHT COLOR SYNTHETIC CUBISM CUBISM DONE IN PAPER COLLAGE TEXTURE Can you guess what this is called? THE THREE MUSICIANS A HARLEQUIN, PIERROT AND A MONK (OR PICASSO AND TWO OTHER FRIENDS). Can you guess what this is painted on? A CAFE CHAIR THREE WARS HAD AN EFFECT ON PICASSO WWI WWII SPANISH CIVIL WAR IN 1937, HE PAINTED GUERNICA, A LARGE MURAL DEPICTING SUFFERING, VIOLENCE AND CHAOS. IT WAS MEANT TO BE AN ANTI-WAR STATEMENT. AND THEN HE GOES BACK TO PAINTING IN THE CLASSICAL REALISM STYLE HE STARTED A FAMILY WITH WIFE FRANCOISE. THEY HAD TWO CHILDREN, CLAUDE AND PALOMA. PICASSO MOVED TO BARCELONA, SPAIN LATE WORKS SELF PORTRAIT “ Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” Pablo Picasso PICASSO’S STUDIO THE CHICAGO PICASSO PICASSO WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL ARTISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY PICASSO PRODUCED ART 80 OF HIS 91 YEARS HE WAS HIS LARGEST COLLECTOR, OWNING 50,000 WORKS OF HIS OWN ART MUSEE PICASSO IN PARIS PICASSO VOTE PICASSO’S INFLUENCE .