life of picasso
Pablo Picasso was born October 25, 1881 in Málaga. He is one of the best-known figures in 20th-century art. Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, print-maker, ceramicist, and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France. He is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a realistic manner through his childhood and adolescence. During the first decade of the 20th century, his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. His revolutionary artistic accomplishments made him extremely famous and quite prosperous. Picasso's primary medium was painting. He usually painted from imagination or memory, and worked in many different styles throughout his career(Pablo picasso and, n.d.).
Artwork
Picasso’s work is often categorized into periods. While the names of many of his later periods are debated, the most commonly accepted periods in his work are the Blue Period (1901–1904), the Rose Period (1905–1907), the African-influenced Period (1908–1909), Analytic Cubism (1909–1912), and Synthetic Cubism (1912–1919). Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War (Pablo picasso and, n.d.).