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Born in 1881 Pablo Picasso is Málaga's favourite
son and considered by many to be the greatest artist of recent times. His
creations are some of the most famous in the world of Modern Art and in his
lifetime, until his death in 1973, he created thousands of works.
When he was 19 Picasso made frequent trips to Paris
where his work became influenced by many of the French painters of
the time, such as Paul Gaugin and Toulouse-Lautrec. Picasso moved to Paris in 1904, during his Blue
period, where much of his work involved heavy shades of this colour.
In 1906 he entered what is known as his Rose period and used colour
schemes comprising vivid tones of red and pinks. This movement from blue to pink was
caused by the influence of Iberian and African art. In 1908, inspired by French
artist Paul Cezanne, Picasso and French artist Georges Braque painted landscapes
in a style that was made up of small cubes and thus became known as cubism.
Spending the next few years
attempting to analyse and improve form, Picasso and Braque developed the first
stage of cubism known as analytic cubism. Soon afterwards Picasso made another
transition to synthetic cubism, which was more colourful and creative.
Picasso went to Rome
during the time of World War One where he met and married Russian dancer Olga
Koklova and together they had a son. During the 1920s Picasso created portraits
of women which represented the tension that exisited between himself and
Olga and were often explosive and violent.
In the 1930s
he became involved with a women by the name of Therese Walter who had his daughter,
Maia, in 1935. During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) Picasso painted what
is thought of today as his most important work. "Guernica" is his mural of war and
its impact and symbolism demonstrates its tremendous horrors. From this point onwards
Picasso
matured to his more sombre period.
With the onset of World War Two, many of his works reflected death. In
1953 Picasso met Jaqueline Roque marrying her in 1961 and, as he became increasingly aware
of his advancing age, Picasso dedicated even more of his time to working on
his paintings. He died in 1973 aged 92 and now his works can be seen in museums all over
the world, in locations such as Madrid, New York and Paris.
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