
Picasso used this impact to paint one of his most famous paintings, Guernica. German bombs fell on Guernica in Spain on 26 April 1937. During this time, the Spanish Civil War started. In 1936, Picasso got a job as director of the Prado-Museum in Madrid. At this time, he got divorced from his wife because of the birth of Maïa. In 1935, Picasso's daughter, Maïa, was born. During a travel in Spain, he started to paint bullfights. Since 1932, he used Marie-Thérèse as a model.

There, Picasso had a room for his sculptures only. In 1931, he left his wife and moved with his mistress to Boisgeloup. In 1928, he began to make sculptural works. Between 19, Picasso preferred to paint abstract still lives. In 1925, his art was in the first Surrealist exhibition in Paris. Paul was Picasso's only legitimate son (only son born to a woman he had married). After this, he painted several paintings with his wife and his son. The painting Guernica by Pablo Picasso (1937) on a wall The last summer of the wartime, Picasso and his wife spent in Barcelona and Biarritz. In the same year, he painted several realistic portraits of her and their friends. In 1917, Picasso met Olga Koklova, a Russian dancer. During the World War, he also worked as a designer for Sergey Diaghilev. In 1915, he started to paint realistic again. In 1914, Picasso spent the whole summer in Avignon. He spent his time during the First World War in Rome. His works from this time are called papiers collés. During this time, he started to use collages in his paintings. During the First World War įrom 1912 to 1919 was Picasso's so called Synthetic Cubism Period. One year later in 1912, he had his first exhibition in Great Britain. Picasso had his first exhibition in the United States in 1911. During this time, Picasso painted musical instruments, still life objects, and also his friends. This period is called Cubism because of the use of cubes and other shapes. This period was inspired by the French painter Paul Cézanne. Picasso's Cubism period started in 1909 and ended around 1912. Girl Balancing on a Ball and The Actor are two early paintings from this time. During this period, Picasso mostly painted circus performers. In the same year, Pablo's "Rosa Period" started. His Blue Period ended in 1904 when he settled in Paris. The two 1903 paintings, The Soup and Crouching Woman, are examples. This is the time his so-called Blue Period started. At this time, he shortened his signature from "Pablo Ruiz y Picasso" to "Picasso". He went back to Madrid in 1901 where he worked for a newspaper called Arte Joven. Lovers in the Street and Moulin de la Galette are examples of his Paris work from this time. Picasso had to burn his paintings to keep himself warm. When Max was working during the day, Pablo slept and when Max slept at night, Pablo worked. In Paris, he lived with Max Jacob, a poet and journalist. Picasso first travelled to Paris in 1900. In 1900, he published his first illustrations in a newspaper in Barcelona. In 1898, he left the academy and went to a rest to Horta de Ebro. One year later in 1897, Picasso started to study at the Academia San Fernando in Madrid. In 1896, he started to attend the art school in Barcelona after passing the entrance examination. Pablo's father was his teacher at this time. One year later, Pablo studied at this institute. In 1891, Pablo moved with his family to Northern Spain, where his father taught at the Instituto da Guarda. At the age of eight, Picasso created his first oil painting called "The Picador". After around 1901, he only used his mother's name. Until 1898, he signed his pictures with the names of his father and of his mother. His father was a painter and teacher José Ruiz Blasco and his mother was María Picasso López. Pablo Picasso was born on Octoin Málaga, Spain. He died of heart failure in Mougins, France, on April 8 1973. Picasso had four children with three women. He was the first living artist to have an exhibition at the Louvre. He was 90 years old when the Louvre in Paris showed many of his works. He spent most of his life in France when he was an adult. Perhaps his most famous painting is Guernica, which shows the horrors of war after the bombing of the town of Guernica. His first word was lápiz, the Spanish word for "pencil". Picasso could draw and paint when he was very young. In cubist art, the artist breaks objects into pieces and reassembles them in abstract and geometric form. He co-founded the style of art called cubism. He is considered one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.

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