THE LIFE OF AN ARTIS

My name is Pablo Ruiz Picasso, and I was born in Malaga in 1881.

My father was an art teacher, and I loved painting and drawing.

When I was 14, I made this drawing of The Firts Comunionof my sister. And this Portrait of Aunt Pepa.

When I was 19, I wentt o Par i s w i th my fr i endCarlos Casagemas .

There we knew theworks , scup l tures andpa i n t i ngs of the“modern i s t ” art i s ts .

We learned a l o t ! !

My friend Carlos died, and I was really sad. I wanted to express all this sadness…What colour could express how sad I was?

Findout!

In this BLUE PERIOD, I painted long, lonely and sadpeople, homeless…

And everything wasblue

Two sisters (1902)

The old guitarist (1903)

Breakfast of a blind man (1903)

Can you

feel the

sadness?

Sometime later,

I felt in

LOVE and

started painting

everything in

pink.

In this period, I

also painted lots

of things related

to the CIRCUS:

harlequins,

acrobats…

One day I visited a museum of Africanart, and I loved it…

I started to

make

things

similar to

the

AFRICAN

MASKS

I had seen.

Can you see they are

similar??

All the influences leaded me to paint a very important picture (or so they say):

Les

Demoisselles

D’Avignon

With the help of my friedn

George Braque, we invented a

new way of painting things:

CUBISMWe began painting figures that

were made up of cubes,

spheres, cylinders, cones, and

other geometric shapes.

Three Musicians

I also made some portraits, painting the

faces from the front and from one side at

the same time. So I put the eyes, mouths

and noses where I wanted.

There was a Civil War in Spain, and

my friends told me the dissasters of

war. Inspired on this, I painted

“The Guernica”.

When World War II started, I moved to the south of France, and started painting as a child, thanks to the sun, and the sea.

One of my

drawings became

the mundial simbol

for PEACE.

I was very famous and popular, and lots of

people came to see me. So I moved to a

castle far away form people.

I died in 1973, when I was 92.

During my life I said things like:

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up”

“Everything you can imagine is real”

“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them”

“I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money”