Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso was born in Spain, 1881. He was raised in Spain before he moved to France and spent most of his adult life working there as an artist. He created more than 20,000 paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, and other items, among those were costumes and theater sets. 

His full name was Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispín Crispiniano María Remedios de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz Picass ws born on October 25, 1881 in Málaga Spain. He died on April 8, 1973. He was a spanish expatriate painter sculptor, printmaker, ceraicist, stage designer and one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. He was, along with Georges Braque, the creator of Cubism. 

Picasso's work is considered radical. He had profound empathy, visionary creativity and reverence for is technical mastery. These qualities distinguished him as a revolutionary artist. Picasso devoted most of his life to an artistic production that he believed would keep him alive and through this he contributed to modern art of the 20th century. 

Pablo Picasso's artistic style changed so much throughout his life that it doesn´t look like only one artist did it. He insisted that his work was not indicative of radical shifts, but rather of his dedication to objectively evaluating for each piece the for and techniques best suited to achieve his desired effect. 

Art critics and historians break up Picasso´s life into periods:

• The Blue Period: 

The Blue Period lasted from 1901 to 1904. This period was called that way because most of his paintings were dominated by the color blue during this years. Picasso moved to Paris to open his own studio, but he was depressed and lonely because of the death of his close friend Carlos Casagemas. During this period he depicted scenes of poverty, anguish, sadness, isolation and mostly in shades of blue and green. His most famous paintings from this period are "Blue Nude", "La Vie", and "The Old Guitarist", all from 1903.

• The Rose Period:

In 1905, Picasso had mostly overcome the depression he was in during the previous years of his life and he fell in love. His artistic styles and paintings gravitated more towards warmer colors, such as beiges, pinks and reds. This period lasted from 1904 to 1906. He fell in love with the model Fernande Olivier and was prosperos thanks to the patronage of art dealer Ambroise Vollard. His  most famous paintings from this year were "Family at Saltimbanques" (1905), "Gertrude Stein" (1905-06), and "Two Nudes"(1906).

Picasso pioneered Cubism next to Georges Braques. In 1907, he produced a painting tt is said to have been the precursor and inspiration of Cubism. This painting is called "Les Demoiselles dAvignon". It depicts five nude prostitutes, abstracted and distorted with geometic figures, with splotches of blue, green, and gray.
His early Cubist paintings include "Three Women" (1907), "Bread and Fruit Dish on a Table" (1909), and "Girl with Mandolin" (1910).  These first works are known as his Analytic Cubist. His later Cubist works are knon as his Synthetic Cubism and these paintings include "Still Life with Chair Caning" (1912), "Card Player" (1913-14), and "Three Musicians" (1921).
His works from 1918 to 1927 are knon as his Classical Period, a return to Realism. During the outbreak of WWI, he becae more somber and worried by the depiction of reality. His works from this period are "Three Women at the Spring" (1921), "Two Women Runnning on the Beach/The Race" (1922), and "The Pipes of Pan" (1923).

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die havingleft undone. 

-Pablo Picasso

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