Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso is born in Malaga on October 25, 1881 the son of the painter and drawing teacher José Ruiz Belasco. He attends the Art Academy La Sonja in Barcelona in 1895, where his father also teaches. Picasso studies at the Madrid Academy in 1897. He travels to Paris in 1900, where he has his first one-man show with Amboise Villard. Picasso's early work begins with the melancholic pictures of the "Blue Period". The cheerful "Rose Period" follows from 1905 to 1907, a period in which his circus paintings were made. The painting "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" marks the beginning of Cubism in 1907, which Pablo Picasso develops together with Georges Braque and that can be separated into two categories, the "analytical Cubism" and the "synthetic Cubism”. Pablo Picasso's works after 1918 cannot be clearly categorized in terms of stylistic terminology, it contains objective-realistic, classicist, symbolistic, surreal and abstracts elements. The artist takes on what is already there, familiarizes himself with it and breaks new grounds in terms of composition, finding inspiration in his own reality and motifs that surround him.