PABLO PICASSO

1881-1973

 School of Paris painter, sculptor, etcher, lithographer, ceramist, and designer, who has had enormous influence on 20th-century art and worked in an unprecedented variety of styles. Born at Malaga, Spain, son of an art teacher.

His family moved to Barcelona, where he entered the School of Fine Arts 1895; then entered Madrid Academy 1897. Early showed great precocity. First visited Paris in autumn 1900, returned in 1901 when he had his first Paris one-man exhibition at the Galerie Vollard. Blue Period paintings of beggars and sad-faced women. Settled in Paris 1904. In 1905 painted some pictures of circus folk and embarked on his Rose Period.

 constructions and iron sculptures 1928-34, illustrations for Ovid's Les Métamorphoses, Buffon's Histoire Naturelleetc. Awarded First Prize at the 1930 Pittsburgh International. His painting 'Guernica' 1937 was inspired by the destruction by bombing of the Spanish town of that name. Continued to live in Paris throughout the Occupation. From 1946 lived mainly in the South of France at Antibes, Vallauris, Cannes, and from 1958 near Aix-en-Provence, where he maintained a prolific output of paintings, sculptures, etchings, modelledImportant series of wrought-lithographs and ceramics. Died at Mougins, near Cannes.

(Tate, c2017)

A prolific and tireless innovator of art forms, Pablo Picasso impacted the course of 20th-century art with unparalleled magnitude. Inspired by African and Iberian art and developments in the world around him, Picasso contributed significantly to a number of artistic movements, notably Cubism, Surrealism, Neoclassicism, and Expressionism.

(Artsy, c2017)