Pablo Picasso

PABLO PICASSO (BORN OCTOBER 25, 1881, IN MÁLAGA, SPAIN) WAS A PAINTER, SCULPTOR, PRINTMAKER, CERAMICIST, STAGE DESIGNER, AND ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL ARTISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY. PICASSO, ALONG WITH GEORGES  BRAQUE, WAS THE CREATOR OF THE CUBIST MOVEMENT IN ART.  
 
PICASSO WAS THE SON OF AN ACADEMIC PAINTER, JOSÉ RUIZ BLASCO, AND STUDIED AT LA LONJA, THE ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS IN BARCELONA. PICASSO EVENTUALLY MOVED TO PARIS, WHERE HE SPENT MUCH OF HIS TIME. 
 
PICASSO'S STYLE DEVELOPED FROM THE BLUE PERIOD (1901-04) TO THE ROSE PERIOD (1905) TO THE PIVOTAL WORK 'LES DEMOISELLES D'AVIGNON (1907), AND THE SUBSEQUENT EVOLUTION OF CUBISM FROM AN ANALYTIC PHASE THROUGH TO ITS SYNTHETIC PHASE (WHICH BEGAN IN 1912). 
 
IN THE 1930S, PICASSO FOCUSED ON SCULPTURE, WITH LARGE EXHIBITIONS AT GALERIES GEORGES PETIT, PARIS, AND THE KUNSTHAUS ZÜRICH, AND THE PUBLICATION OF THE FIRST VOLUME OF CHRISTIAN ZERVO’S CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ, WHICH INCREASED HIS FAME GREATLY. 
 
THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR IN 1936 GREATLY AFFECTED PICASSO. THIS WAS REFLECTED IN HIS INFAMOUS WORK ‘GUERNICA’ (1937). FOLLOWING THIS PERIOD, PICASSO LIVED IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE. HE MARRIED JACQUELINE ROQUE IN 1961 AND THEY MOVED TO MOUGINS, WHERE PICASSO CONTINUED HIS WORK IN PAINTING, DRAWING, PRINTS, CERAMICS, AND SCULPTURE UNTIL HIS PASSING IN 1973.