Pablo Picasso
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Pablo Picasso
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WHO WAS PABLO PICASSO?
• Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, 
ceramicist and stage designer considered one of the 
greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century. 
• Picasso is credited, along with Georges Braque, with the 
creation of Cubism. 
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EARLY LIFE
• Pablo Picasso was born in Málaga, Spain, on October 25, 
1881. Picasso's mother was Doña Maria Picasso y Lopez. 
His father was Don José Ruiz Blasco, a painter and art 
teacher. 
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EARLY LIFE CONT.
• His gargantuan full name, which honors a variety of relatives 
and saints, is Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan 
Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la 
Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso.
• A serious and prematurely world-weary child, the young 
Picasso possessed a pair of piercing, watchful black eyes 
that seemed to mark him destined for greatness.
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EDUCATION
• Picasso's father began teaching him to draw and paint 
when he was a child, and by the time he was 13 years old, 
his skill level had surpassed his father’s. 
• Soon, Picasso lost all desire to do any schoolwork, 
choosing to spend the school days doodling in his notebook 
instead.
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SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS
• In 1895, when Picasso was 14 years old, his family moved 
to Barcelona, Spain, where he quickly applied to the city's 
prestigious School of Fine Arts. 
• Although the school typically only accepted students 
several years his senior, Picasso's entrance exam was so 
extraordinary that he was granted an exception and 
admitted.
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EL QUATRE GATS
• In 1899, Picasso moved back to Barcelona and fell in with a 
crowd of artists and intellectuals who made their 
headquarters at a café called El Quatre Gats.
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EXPERIMENTATION AND INNOVATION
• Inspired by the anarchists and radicals he met there, 
Picasso made his decisive break from the classical 
methods in which he had been trained, and began what 
would become a lifelong process of experimentation and 
innovation.
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PAINTINGS
• Picasso remains renowned for endlessly reinventing 
himself, switching between styles so radically different that 
his life's work seems to be the product of five or six great 
artists rather than just one. 
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BLUE PERIOD
• Art critics and historians typically break Picasso's adult 
career into distinct periods, the first of which lasted from 
1901 to 1904 and is called his "Blue Period," after the color 
that dominated nearly all of his paintings over these years. 
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ROSE PERIOD
• By 1905, Picasso had largely overcome the depression that 
had previously debilitated him, and the artistic manifestation 
of Picasso's improved spirits was the introduction of warmer 
colors—including beiges, pinks and reds—in what is known 
as his "Rose Period" (1904-06). 
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DEATH
• Picasso died on April 8, 1973, at the age of 91, in Mougins, 
France. He died of heart failure, reportedly while he and his 
wife Jacqueline were entertaining friends for dinner.
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