Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973), was a Spanish painter, sculptor,
printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of
his adult life in France. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les
Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the
bombing of Guernica by the German and Italian airforces at the behest of the
Spanish nationalist government during the Spanish Civil War.
Picasso's work is often categorized into periods, which are the Blue Period
(1901–1904), the Rose Period (1904–1906), the African-influenced Period
(1907–1909), Analytic Cubism (1909–1912), and Synthetic Cubism (1912–
1919), also referred to as the Crystal period.
1. Picasso's Blue Period is characterized by somber (sad) paintings rendered
in shades of blue and blue-green, only occasionally warmed by other
colors.
2. The Rose Period is characterized by a more cheery (happy) style with
orange and pink colors, and featuring many circus people, acrobats and
harlequins known in France as saltimbanques.
3. Picasso's, African Period was the period when Pablo Picasso painted in a
style which was strongly influenced by African sculpture and particularly
traditional African masks.
4. Analytic cubism is a style of painting Picasso developed with Georges
Braque using monochrome (black and white) brownish and neutral colors.
Both artists took apart objects and "analyzed" them in terms of their
shapes.
5. Crystal Cubism is a distilled form of Cubism consistent with a shift,
between 1915 and 1916, towards a strong emphasis on flat surface
activity and large overlapping geometric planes.
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