Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor who was a founder of the Cubist movement. He studied art in Madrid and spent most of his life in Paris. His most famous works include those from his blue and rose periods, as well as the Cubist period. Guernica is one of his most famous works, and he also created a 50-foot abstract sculpture. Many of his works are among the most expensive in the world.
Pablo Picasso, whose full name is the long Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Clito Ruiz y Picasso, was a Spanish painter and sculptor. He was born in 1881 and died in 1973. He is widely recognized as one of the most unique and influential artists of the 20th century and was one of the founders of the Cubist movement in painting.
As a young man, Pablo Picasso studied art in Madrid, although he never completed his degree. At the age of nineteen he moved to Paris, where he would spend most of his life. In Paris, he joined an exclusive social circle that included artists and writers such as Andre Breton and Gertrude Stein. Picasso was married twice, but had many mistresses throughout his life.
The paintings that Picasso completed immediately after his move to Paris, from 1901 to 1904, are considered to belong to his “blue period”. These paintings often depicted prostitutes and beggars and seemed representative of depression, possibly as a result of the suicide of one of Picasso’s close friends. The more optimistic paintings he created between 1905 and 1907 are from the “rose period”; between 1907 and 1909, much of his work was inspired by African art.
The Cubist period, in which Pablo Picasso began working in 1909, is Picasso’s most innovative and original artistic phase. Along with fellow artist Georges Braque, Picasso developed a style of painting in which everyday objects were deconstructed into geometric shapes, such as cubes. Later developments in Picasso’s Cubism included fragments of newspapers or other documents, as a form of collage.
One of Pablo Picasso’s most famous works of art is a painting called Guernica, a giant mural named after a Spanish city bombed by Nazi Germans during the Spanish Civil War in 1937. The painting, recognized as one of his greatest works, is seen as a symbolic protest against war and brutality.
In his later years, Pablo Picasso dedicated himself to reinterpreting some of the works of masters such as Goya and Manet. He also created a 50-foot (15 m) tall abstract sculpture, which he donated to the city of Chicago, where it is now one of his most familiar and famous landmarks. Today, many of Pablo Picasso’s works are among the most expensive works of art in the world; some were sold for more than US$50 million.
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