Pablo Picasso

Dejan Markovic/08Računarski fakultet, Beograd

Outline

• Life• Painting periods– Early– Blue– Rose– African influence– Cubism– Classicism

Life• Full name, Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula

Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25. October 1881. – 8. April 1973.)

• Spanish painter• Mid-class family• Academy with 13yo• Madrid’s Royal Academy with 16yo• Paris, 1900

Painting periods

• Early life• Blue period• Rose period• African influence period• Cubism• Classicism

Early life (Before 1901.)

• Picasso Museum, Barcelona• • Jose – Father 1896.

Maria – Mother 1896.

Blue period (1901–1904.)• Blue and blue-green colors• Prostitutes and beggars

Self-portrait - 1901. Two sisters – 1902.

Rose period (1904-1906.)

• Orange and pink colors• Circus people and harlequins

Harlequin with glass – 1905.Boy with the pipe – 1905

African influence (1907-1909.)

• Negro period, entrance in cubism• Afro girls

Self-portrait – 1907. Woman – 1907.

Cubism and Classicism (from 1907.)

• Starting with Picasso• Avant-garde of 20th century• Inspired by music and literature

Three musicians – 1921.

Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, 1910

German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War – 1937.

“It isn’t up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so many words! The public who look at the picture must interpret the symbols as they understand them.”

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