1. Pablo Picasso By: Caroline Foster

2. His early life Pablo Picasso was born on October 25, 1881, in Málaga, Spain. The son of an academic painter, José Ruiz Blanco, he began to draw at an early age. In 1895, the family moved to Barcelona, and Picasso studied there at La Lonja, the academy of fine arts.

3. The Blue Period During his lifetime, the artist went through different periods of characteristic painting styles. The Blue Period of Picasso lasted from about 1900 to 1904. He started this after his friend committed suicide. It is characterized by the use of different shades of blue underlining the melancholic style of his subjects - people from the grim side of life with thin, half- starved bodies.

4. His move to Paris In 1904 he moved permanently to Paris. Although he was Spanish by birth he spent most of his life in France. He never lived in Spain again but his earliest experiences in Spain and his family and culture were an important part of his life throughout.

5. Rose and Cubism Periods During Picasso's Rose Period from about 1905 to 1906, his style moved away from the Blue Period to a friendly pink tone with subjects taken from the world of the circus. Garcon a la pipe (Boy with a Pipe) from the Rose period, recently sold for $93,000,000 in New York! Inspired by the works of Paul Cezanne, he developed together with George Braque and Juan Gris developed the Cubist style. In Cubism, subjects are reduced to basic geometrical shapes.

6. A Cubism work, Three Musicians 1921

7. His love life Picasso had many mistresses during his life and married two woman. He had 4 kids He Lived with the painter Françoise Gilot for ten years and she bore him two children: Claude and Paloma Picasso. He also fathered two other children - Paulo (with Olga Koklova) and Maya (with Marie-Therese Walter). Painter and photographer Dora Maar was perhaps his most famous lover, and in 1961 he married Jacqueline Roque.

8. Some of his works which are influenced by his Spainish upbringing

9. End of his life By 1936, the Spanish Civil War had profoundly affected Picasso, the expression of which culminated in his painting Guernica Following World War II his work became less political and he started exploring historical styles, reproducing the works of earlier artists. Picasso continued his prolific work in painting, drawing, prints, ceramics, and sculpture until his death on April 8, 1973.

10. His legacy Since Picasso left no will, his death duties (estate tax) to the French state were paid in the form of his works and others from his collection. These works form the core of the immense and representative collection of the Musée Picasso in Paris. In 2003, relatives of Picasso inaugurated a museum dedicated to him in his birthplace, Málaga, Spain, the Museo Picasso Málaga. Musée Picasso Museo Picasso Málaga

11. His legacy The Museu Picasso in Barcelona features many of Picasso's early works, created while he was living in Spain, including many rarely seen works which reveal Picasso's firm grounding in classical techniques.Museu PicassoBarcelona