Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruiz y Picasso
Spain 1881 - 1973
Middle-Class Upbringing
Father - painter, curator, professor
Picasso at age 7 receives formal artistic training from father
Preferred art to classwork
Sister at 7 dies when Picasso was 13
Family in Barcelona which Picasso sees as his true home
Takes month long entrance exam to School of Fine arts & completes in it in 1 week
Picasso is only 13
Father rents him a room close to home so that he can work alone & checks on him often during the day
At 16 father & uncle send him to Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid the foremost art school
Stops attending school yet spends time in the Prado museum
Goes to Paris - cold & poor, burns work to stay warm, publishes magazine with friend as the illustrator, begins to sign his work as Picasso
Married twice
4 children by 3 women
Lots of affairs
One woman hoped in vain that he would one day marry her too, 4 days after his death she hanged herself
WWII stays in France many others run
Cannot show his work, does not fit with Nazi ideals
Not suppose to work with Bronze, but it is smuggled into him
Time of painting Guernica
Lover Gilot leaves him
He is in his 70’s, she is a young art student
He takes it badly, deals with his age
Paints buffonish men with beautiful young girls
Dies during a dinner party
Depicts the Nazi-German bombing of Guernica, Spain by 28 bombers in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War
250 - 1,600 people dead more injured
Spanish government commissioned Picasso to paint a large mural for display at World’s Fair in Paris 1937
Within 15 days Picasso begins Guernica
It goes on a brief world tour
Became an anti-war symbol
Franco wanted it, Picasso would not allow it until Spain was returned to the people
Represents death, violence, brutality, suffering, helplessness, all in black&white to closely resemble a newspaper
1992 to Madrid’s Prado Museum