Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso 25 October 1881 8 April 1973 was a Spanish painter sculptor printmaker ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France One of the most influential artists of the 20th century he is known for cofounding the Cubist movement the invention of constructed sculpture the coinvention of collage and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore Among his most famous works are the protoCubist Les Demoiselles dAvignon 1907 and the antiwar painting Guernica 1937 a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years painting in a naturalistic 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 After 1906 the Fauvist work of the older artist Henri Matisse motivated Picasso to explore more radical styles beginning a fruitful rivalry between the two artists who subsequently were often paired by critics as the leaders of modern art Picassos 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 19011904 the Rose Period 19041906 the Africaninfluenced Period 19071909 Analytic Cubism 19091912 and Synthetic Cubism 19121919 also referred to as the Crystal period Much of Picassos work of the late 1910s and early 1920s is in a neoclassical style and his work in the mid1920s often has characteristics of Surrealism His later work often combines elements of his earlier styles Exceptionally prolific throughout the course of his long life Picasso achieved universal renown and immense fortune for his revolutionary artistic accomplishments and became one of the bestknown figures in 20thcentury art Picasso was born at 2315 on 25 October 1881 in the city of Málaga Andalusia in southern Spain He was the first child of Don José Ruiz y Blasco 18381913 and María Picasso y López Picassos family was of middleclass background His father was a painter who specialized in naturalistic depictions of birds and other game For most of his life Ruiz was a professor of art at the School of Crafts and a curator of a local museum Ruizs ancestors were minor aristocrats Picassos birth certificate and the record of his baptism include very long names combining those of various saints and relatives Ruiz y Picasso were his paternal and maternal surnames respectively per Spanish custom The surname Picasso comes from Liguria a coastal region of northwestern Italy Pablos maternal greatgrandfather Tommaso Picasso moved to Spain around 1807 Source Article Pablo Picasso from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30