Pablo Picasso Research Paper

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Pablo Picasso was born on October 25, 1881 in Malaga, Spain. Picasso’s father was an artist, a professor at the school of fine arts, and a curator for a museum. Pablo’s artistic career actually started under his father in a one year study starting at age 11. At age 14, Pablo started at the School of Fine Arts. After studying at the School of Fine Arts, Pablo traveled to Paris, France in 1901, where he discovered new styles and art forms. While in France, Pablo started to create the surrealism and cubism styles that he is well known for. Pablo went back and forth for a while between France and Spain, finally settling in France. Pablo Picasso passed away April 8, 1973 in Mougins, France. Picasso had many periods of painting in his lifetime, some are the Blue, Rose, and Cubism periods. …show more content…

The Blue Period lasted from 1901- 1904. Pablo’s inspiration for the entire period was the death of his good friend, Casagemas. Casagemas and Picasso met when he lived in Barcelona. The friends moved to Paris together and stayed there for a short while. Casagemes went back to Spain with Pablo after he had a failed love affair. While in Spain, Casagemas quickly became bored and decided to go back to Paris to find his ex-lover. Casagemes went back, pulled a gun on his ex-lover, but he couldn’t shoot her so he turned the gun and shot himself. Casagemes’ death took a heavy toll on Picasso, he felt guilty for abandoning him and tried to exorcise that guilt by painting melancholy scenes with dull shades of blue to represent his sadness. During this time, Picasso was also very poor and couldn’t sell his paintings, so he painted the misery of the other poor around him. This is the time when Picasso’s depression started and it didn’t really end until the end of the Cubism