Pablo+Picasso

Pablo Picasso  Joshua Lai Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is a Spanish painter of the 20 th century most known for his work with cubism.



From a young age, Picasso expressed a great talent for painting and at only the age of 19 he had his first exposition for his art. During his life, Picasso went through certain "periods" of painting. His most famous of them being his cubism period. The others were: The Blue Period, The Rose Period, The Classical Period, and The Surrealist Period.

The first of those periods is his Blue Period. This period is when his paintings were very expressionist and displayed much emotion. His subjects were usually lonely, melancholy, spiritual, and were people of the lower class. An example of a painting in his Blue Period is El Viejo Guitarrista.

His second period is called the Rose Period. During this time, Picasso was inspired a lot by circus life, especially harlequins and as a result many of his models were harlequins. Supposedly the paintings are also said to express happier emotions but they still look sad. Also, as the name suggests, he uses the color of red a lot during this time. A work from this period is The Family of Acrobats.



Another period is his classical period. During this period he painted simple forms and suppressed many details of his works. It was a brief return to Realism as his paintings became more somber like during his Blue Period.

Cubism was Picasso's most famous period of painting as it was his most revolutionary form of art. Cubism sought to break an object down into its most simple and geometric form and then show it from multiple perspectives creating a unique brand of art. It has been said to have been started by "Les DeMoiselles".



Surrealism began sweeping the art world from 1920 onwards and in 1927 Picasso even got caught up in the movement which was an offspring of his own Cubism movement. One of his most famous works La Guernica, was painted during this period. He painted it in response to the bombing of a Spanish town during the Spanish Civil War.

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