PABLO PICASSO. By: Charo Cabanes.

PABLO PICASSO. My name is Pablo Picasso. I was born in the Spanish town of Málaga in 1881. Ever since I was a boy, I liked to paint. My father was a painter and Art Teacher.

PABLO PICASSO. My first drawings were of bulls and doves. I did them when I was just 9 years old. A child with a dove.

PABLO PICASSO. My father passed on to me his love of doves and bulls.

PABLO PICASSO. I studied arts at La Coruña, Barcelona and Madrid. But academic studies never excited me... My dream was to visit Paris.

PARIS IN BLUE AND PINK. I arrived in Paris in 1900. There I set about discovering the artistic movements of the period. There was so much to learn!!!! Suddenly, my best friend Carlos died. I was very sad and I started to paint everything in BLUE.

PARIS IN BLUE AND PINK. Soon afterwards I fell in LOVE. I began to paint everything using PINK. At that time I spent a lot of time at the circus. So, I painted harlequins, jugglers and clowns.

CUBISM. A NEW WAY OF SEEING. Why paint things to look so real? Could be there be another way to represent objects and figures? I started to experiment with new materials, made collages, sculptures, ceramics,... And I found a new language: CUBISM.

WAR AND ART. In 1935 the Spanish Civil War started. A new change took place in my life. I was shocked by sad news: The Basque city of GUERNICA was cruelly bombed and destroyed in April of 1937, during the Spanish Civil War. I painted a mural as big as a wall, in one month.

THE GUERNICA. I painted: I painted all in BLACK AND WHITE. No colours to show the suffering of the WAR. I painted: THE GUERNICA.

With this electric light Picasso said that this is not a natural dissaster, this is a MAN MADE DISSASTER. THIS IS A WAR.

What can you see? A bull watching the dissaster. A man burning!. A woman crying with her dead baby. A soldier dead in pieces on the ground.

I lived a passionate life. I never returned to Spain. I died in Mougins, France, on the 8th of April of 1973. I was 92 years old.

This is my portrait. Do you like painting?

TASK: Paste the self portrait of Pablo Picasso in your book Recall the information shared and brainstorm around the picture