Pablo Picasso

Picasso was baptized Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Clito. A series of names honouring various saints and relatives. Added to these were Ruiz and Picasso, for his father and mother, respectively, as per Spanish custom.

Early Life Born in the city of Málaga. Picasso’s family was middle-class; his father was a painter whose 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.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Made his first trip to Paris in For the next five years he divided his time between Paris and Barcelona. Picasso was married twice and had four children by three women. He also had many mistresses.

Cubism In 1907 he painted one of his most famous painting. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. This was the start of the Cubism art movement.

Women Seated, 1908

The Guitarist, 1912

Still life with chair caning, 1912

Guernica, 1937

Weeping Woman, 1939

Henri Matisse – Red fish in a bowl, 1915

Toulouse Lautrec - Ambassadeurs

Braque - Candle Stick and Playing cards 1910

Cezanne – Mountain in Provence, 1897