Pablo Picasso

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Pablo Picasso was a leading artist of the 20th century and one of the most important painters of the School of Paris, born in Spain and active primarily in Paris. Throughout his life, he continued to create in diverse fields such as painting, printmaking, sculpture, and ceramics, spearheading the innovation of modern art. He is particularly known as the founder of Cubism, creating a new form of expression that reconstructed objects from multiple perspectives and decisively influencing the development of 20th-century art. His creative range was extremely broad, developing diverse styles from his Blue Period and Rose Period, Cubism, to his free and powerful works in his later years.

1881 Born in Malaga, Spain

Showed talent from a young age, painting in oils at age eight

1892 Enters the School of Fine Arts in A Coruña

Picasso's father, an art teacher and curator, was amazed by his son Pablo Picasso's great talent, gave him his oil paints, and stopped painting himself.

1895 Enters the Barcelona School of Fine Arts

1897 Enters the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid

1900 Moves to Paris

1901 Parisian art dealer Vollard holds Picasso's first solo exhibition

1901-1904: Blue Period

1902 Creates "Mother and Child by the Sea"

1904 Settles in the Bateau-Lavoir in Montmartre, Paris

1904-1906: Rose Period

1905 Creates "Boy with a Pipe"

1906-1917: Cubism Period

1907 Creates "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"

1908-1925: Neoclassicism Period

1925-1936: Surrealism Period

1932 Creates "The Dream"

1937 Creates "Guernica"

1973 Dies near Nice, France