Fine Arts Museum- Oviedo By Ana Vega

1. Where am I? Who am I? What am I doing here? Hello everybody!

2. I am Cupid. He is a little bit crazy. But I will try to help him. Let me introduce myself.

3. You are with me in this painting. It is “Mosquetero con espada y amorcillo” You are a musketeer, and you are in the Fine Arts Museum. In Oviedo

4. But… why? Picasso?? Yes, Picasso. Picasso Picasso Picasso Because Picasso painted you.

5. The car? Yes, Picasso This was Picasso. Noooo!!!. Where did you study?

6. Pablo Picasso His most famous works are: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), Guernica (1937), The Weeping Woman (1937). He is generally considered the greatest artist of the 20th century He said: “ Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. ” He was born in 1881, in Málaga, Spain. He died in 1973 (aged 91) in Mougins, France. His works were: Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Printmakings, Ceramics. He was trained by his father,Jose Ruíz ( an artist and art teacher) , and in the Academy of Arts in Madrid. He created a movement called Cubism.

7. Picasso was trained as an artist in Spain, but moved to Paris in 1900, when he was 19 years old. His work, for the next few years, were dominated by various shades of blue. It was called the BLUE PERIOD. The paintings of this period portray alcoholics, blind figures, beggars, and prostitutes, all of them expressing human misery. Their bodies remind us of El Greco. Blue Period THE TRAGEDY (1903) THE LIFE (1903)

8. Early /Blue Period Painting Title: Self Portrait with Cloak 1901 Like many of his other paintings from this period, this self-portrait uses blue tones. The young artist represents himself as a struggling painter, unshaven, somber and mysterious.

10. Rose Period Painting Title: Autorretrato: Yo, Picasso The Rose Period signifies the time when the style of Pablo Picasso 's painting used orange and pink colours in contrast to the cool, somber tones of the previous Blue Period

11. Inspired by Cezanne, Picasso and his friend Braque developed a style later described as being made of “little cubes”. They were concerned with breaking down and analyzing form, and they developed the first phase of cubism . Picasso's favorite subjects were still-life objects, musical instruments, and his friends. In 1912, pasting paper and a piece of oilcloth to the canvas and combining these with painted areas, Picasso created his first collage (Still Life with Chair Caning). Picasso created cubist sculptures as well as paintings. Cubism STILL LIFE (Dead birds) (1912) LES DEMOISELLES D'AVIGNON (1907) Three Musicians. 1921

12. Cubist Period P ainting Title: Self Portrait 1907 He takes apart objects and “analyzes” them in terms of their shapes. This portrait is mask-like and possibly influenced by African art, which the artist had a fascination with.

15. INSTRUMENTS DE MUSIQUE SUR UNE TABLE (1925) MOTHER WITH DEAD CHILD (1937)

16. In 1940s he married the painter Françoise Gilot, who gave birth to two children, Claude and Paloma.

17. Latter works In the 1950s, Picasso’s style changed again. He produced reinterpretations of the art of the great masters. Picasso’s final works were a mixture of styles, his works were more colourful and expressive, and from 1968 through 1971 he produced a torrent of paintings and sculptures. Nude Woman with a Necklace (1968) Untitled sculpture (1967) Margarita María

19. THE PAINTER AND THE MODEL (1963 ) SELF-PORTRAIT (1972)

20. Musketeer and Cupid Musketeer (1968) Musketeer with pipe Musketeer with pipe and flowers (1968) Who are they?

21. Look at these eyes and nose!

22. Look at these colours!

23. Look at where the eyes and ears are!

24. Look at the shapes!

25. Now, have a look at some other Picasso’s works Yes, Picasso

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35. We were painted in 1969, and we are living in Oviedo’s Fine Arts Museum. Now, do you understand?

36. SURE !! Picasso Picasso Picasso

37. Could you find 4 Picassos?