Timeline of Pablo Picasso's Life

Picasso painted Guernica at his home in Paris in response to the 26 April 1937 bombing of Guernica

1937

Picasso works on his sculptures.

1931

First cubist paintingsPicasso was influenced from the realism.

1907-1927

Picasso moved to Parigi. The Rose Period

1904-1906

The Blue Period begins, characterized by pessimistic themes and elongated figures.

1901-1904

THe has his first individual exhibition in Els Quatre Gats in Barcelona.

1898

Picasso moves with his family to Barcelona.He is admitted into the School of fine Arts

1895

Picasso is born in Malaga on October 25

1881

Timeline of Pablo Picasso's Life

1973

Picasso dies April 8.

Picasso's Blue Period, characterized by sombre paintings rendered in shades of blue and blue-green only occasionally warmed by other colours.In his austere use of colour Picasso was influenced by a trip through Spain and by the suicide of his friend Carles Casagemas. Starting in autumn of 1901, he painted several posthumous portraits of Casagemas culminating in the gloomy allegorical painting La Vie (1903), now in the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Blue period

1901-1904

After purchasing an estate in Boisgeloup in 1932, Picasso set up a sculptor studio in a coach house. He turned to the animalistic genre: “A Head of Cow”, “Cock”. At the same time, sculptural portraits of Marie-Thérèse Walter, his young lover, were created along with surrealistic paintings: ”Head of a Woman” (1932).

1931

Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement.

1881

The café opened on 12 June 1897 in the famous Casa Martí, and served as a hostel, bar and cabaret until it eventually became a central meeting point for Barcelona's most prominent modernist figures, such as Pablo Picasso.Pere Romeu, the person in charge of Els Quatre Gats, quickly noticed Picasso, a young promise with a lot of potential. He commissioned Picasso to do various graphic works, for example the Menu.

1898

Pablo Picasso died on 8 April 1973 in Mougins, France, from pulmonary edema and a heart attack, the morning after he and his wife Jacqueline entertained friends for dinner. He was interred at the Château of Vauvenargues near Aix-en-Provence, a property he had acquired in 1958 and occupied with Jacqueline between 1959 and 1962. Jacqueline prevented his children Claude and Paloma from attending the funeral.[78] Devastated and lonely after the death of Picasso, Jacqueline killed herself by gunshot in 1986 when she was 59 years old.

death

1973

During the 1930s, the minotaur replaced the harlequin as a common motif in his work. His use of the minotaur came partly from his contact with the surrealists, who often used it as their symbol, and it appears in Picasso's Guernica.Asked to explain its symbolism, Picasso said, "It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so many words! The public who look at the picture must interpret the symbols as they understand them."

1937

The Rose Period is characterized by a lighter tone and style utilizing orange and pink colours and featuring many circus people, acrobats and harlequins known in France as saltimbanques.The harlequin, a comedic character usually depicted in checkered patterned clothing, became a personal symbol for Picasso.Picasso met Fernande Olivier, a bohemian artist who became his mistress, in Paris in 1904. Olivier appears in many of his Rose Period paintings, many of which are influenced by his warm relationship with her.

Rose Period

1904-1906

In 1895, Picasso was traumatized when his seven-year-old sister, Conchita, died of diphtheria.[21] After her death, the family moved to Barcelona, where Ruiz took a position at its School of Fine Arts.Ruiz persuaded the officials at the academy to allow his son to take an entrance exam for the advanced class. This process often took students a month, but Picasso completed it in a week, and the jury admitted him, at just 13.

1895

1907-1912

Picasso and Braque worked together closely during the next few years (1909–12)—the only time Picasso ever worked with another painter in this way—and they developed what came to be known as Analytical Cubism.In 1925 the Surrealist writer and poet André Breton declared Picasso as 'one of ours' in his article Le Surréalisme et la peinture, published in Révolution surréaliste. Les Demoiselles was reproduced for the first time in Europe in the same issue.