PABLO PICASSO

1881-1973

Pablo Picasso was born in Málaga in 1881. His father was a painter and a teacher. Pablo learned with him until he was

13. He liked to draw bulls and

doves. Then his father gave him his tools. Pablo studied art in Barcelona, Madrid and in A

Coruña. But he learned more in a little Cafe called "Los cuatro gatos", where he met his artist

friends. His big dream was Paris...

“Los cuatro gatos”

Salón de baile

Boy with dove

Self-portrait in blue

Tragedy in blue

BLUE PERIOD

He went to Paris in 1900, but it was a sad period. His friend Carlos and his sister Conchita died, and Pablo couldn´t sell his pictures, so he didn´t have any money. All his paintings during this period were blue, using all kinds of blue, that´s why it´s called the

Ängel Fernández de Soto

Tragedy in blue

BLUE PERIOD

In 1904 he fell in love. He lived in Montmartre near harlequins, acrobats, clowns... He started to sell his paintings. He felt optimist so he painted with

warmer colours like pink. This period is called... ROSE PERIOD

Mother and son

ROSE PERIOD

In 1907, with his friend George Braque, he began painting figures that were made up of cubes, spheres, cylinders, and other geometric shapes. The paintings looked like someone had cut them up and glued them back together.Cubists wanted to show the most important parts of the things they painted. They wanted

to show all the sides of an object in the same picture. CUBISM

Factory

ENLACES DE INTERÉS

PICASSO EN ACCIÓN:• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNrYupcDlXE

SYLVETTE

She was Picasso´s muse, he painted her more than 40 times

GUERNICA

1937

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZH59uYn7Ik&feature=fvwrelhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9iuuFMnUNc&feature=fvwrel

Picasso was asked to paint a picture for the EXPO Exhibition in Paris in 1937.

When he heard about the bombing attack in Guernica, he painted this black and grey picture to express what Spain was living at the moment and his own feelings about it.