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Date of Birth
Pablo Picasso was born in Málaga, Spain -
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Life & Art of Pablo Picasso
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Pablo Picasso during childhood
Picasso showed a passion and a skill for drawing from an early age. According to his mother, his first words were "piz, piz", a shortening of lápiz, the Spanish word for "pencil". -
Beginning of His Art Career
Pablo Picasso's first series of paintings were based from the influences of his exposure to the work of Rossetti, Steinlen, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Edvard Munch. -
Picasso's Blue Period Paintings
Picasso's Blue Period (1901–1904), characterized by somber paintings rendered in shades of blue and blue-green, only occasionally warmed by other colours. -
Picasso's Rose Period Paintings
The Rose Period (1904–1906) is characterised by a more cheery style with orange and pink colours, and featuring many circus people, acrobats, and harlequins. -
Pablo PIcasso and the creation of Cubism
Cubism (1909–1912) is a style of painting Picasso developed with Georges Braque using monochrome brownish and neutral colours. Both artists took apart objects and "analyzed" them in terms of their shapes. Picasso and Braque's paintings at this time share many similarities. -
Date of Death
Pablo Picasso passed away at the age of 91 in Mougins, France
