2. Pablo Picasso
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish
painter, draughtsman and sculptor who lived most of his life in France. He is
widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of
styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are
the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d’Avianon (1907) and Guernica (1937), a
portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.
Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic
talent in his early years, painting in a realistic
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. His revolutionary artistic
accomplishments brought him universal renown and
immense fortune, making him one of the best-
known figures in 20th century art.
4. Blue Period
Femme aux Bras Croisés, this
work, painted in 1901, was a part of
Picasso’s famous Blue Period, a dark,
sad time in the artist’s life. The
beautiful & various tones of blue are
typical. The painting depicts a
woman with her arms crossed staring
at the endless nothing.
<Femme aux Bras Croisés>
5. Rose Period
It was created during the Rose
Period, Garcon a la Pipe showcases
Picasso’s exceptional use of cheerful
orange and pink palatte. The oil on
canvas painting, measuring 100,
81.3 cm (slightly over 39 , 32
inches), displays a Parisian boy
holding a pipe in his left hand.
<Garcon a la Pipe>
6. Aferican-influenced Period
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon,
portrays five nude female
prostitutes from a brothel on
Carrer d'Avinyó (Avinyó Street) in
Barcelona. Each figure is depicted
in a disconcerting confrontational
manner and none are
conventionally feminine. The
women appear as slightly
menacing and rendered with
angular and disjointed body
shapes. Two are shown with
African mask-like faces and three
more with faces in the Iberian
style of Picasso's native Spain,
giving them a savage aura.
<Les Demoiselles d'Avignon>
7. Two Types of Paintings
Cubism
Classicium and surrealism
8. Cubism
Analytic Cubism (1909–1912) is a style
of painting Picasso developed along with
Georges Braque using monochrome
brownish and neutral colors. Both artists
took apart objects and “analyzed” them in
terms of their shapes. Synthetic cubism
(1912–1919) was a further development
of the genre, in which cut paper
fragments—often wallpaper or portions of
newspaper pages—were pasted into
compositions, marking the first use of
collage in fine art.
<Standing Female Nude>
9. Classicism and surrealism
After the World War I, the
society was going through a
violent change, and so
did Pablo Picasso's style of
painting. He started painting
in a n Picasso’s paintings and
drawings from this period
frequently recall the work of
Ingres. During the 1930s,
some more changes were
incorporated
<Guernica> in Picasso's paintings the
major one being the replacement of the harlequin with the minotaur as a
common motif. Picasso was greatly influenced to use minotaur from his contact
with the surrealists, who were known for using it often as their symbol. This
acquired quality of Picasso is evident in Picasso’s Guernica. eoclassical style.