Pablo Picasso Project

A Brief Biography:

Picasso was born was born on October 25, 1881 in Malaga, Spain. His father taught drawing at a local Fine Arts school, which allowed Picasso to get drawing and painting lessons at a very young age. In 1895, Picasso's father got a job at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona. The teachers at the School were shocked by Picasso's young talent so he got accepted into the school and passed exams with very good grades compared to the seniors. At age 15, Pablo drew his very first, famous oil painting which is titled as "The First Communion" and it went on display in an art show in Barcelona.  A year after, another painting of Pablo "Science and Charity" won a competition in Malaga. Picasso spent hours at a local museum, studying and copying works by famous painters. In 1900, he moved to Paris against his parent's permission by rejecting fine art styles and going for new techniques. 

From 1901 to 1904 is named the "Blue Period" because his best friend, Casegemas, shot himself in the head after a woman rejecting his love. This death caused some paintings, starting with "Death of Casagemas" in shades of blue. Three years after the death of Casegemas, Picasso painted many depressing paintings, all in blue. The year 1907 is a very important year when Pablo became fascinated with African sculptures. He was inspired by sharp angles, Picasso started to paint in the style of Cubism. Picasso's work became political for a short period of time, when World War II broke out. Picasso handed the Nazis copies of anti-war prints he had produced during the occupation of France. In his later years, Picasso dedicated  his talent to painting generous  images and fighting for peace. He even named one of his children Paloma, which means "peace". Picasso had many lovers over the years and seemed unable to remain faithful to any one woman.  He passed away at the age of 92. 

Three images that stood out to me from Pablo's work:

~ This image in my opinion is very strong but very sad. I picked this image  because I love history and this was painted when the whole world was going through a war and many innocent people were killed and suffered a lot.~