1. spanish
2. cubist
3. had 7 different style periods
4. his most impressive work: "Guernica"
5. his art was forbidden by nazis during World War 2
6. has and still is influencing many contemporary artists
7. was a terrible student
8. his final words: "Drink to me, drink to my health, you know I can't drink anymore!"
9. said that "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
10. said that "Action is the foundational key to all success."
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso (Spanish pronunciation:[ˈpaβlo ˈrwiθ piˈkaso]; 25 October 1881– 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor who lived most of his adult life in France. He is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and worked in. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.
Picasso demonstrated uncanny artistic talent in his early years, painting in a realistic manner through his childhood and adolescence; during the first decade of the 20th century his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. His revolutionary artistic accomplishments brought him universal renown and immense fortune throughout his life, making him one of the best-known figures in 20th century art.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkRS3wDg1xU
Between 1901 and mid-1904, when blue was the predominant colour in his paintings, Picasso moved back and forth between Barcelona and Paris, taking material for his work from one place to the other. For example, his visits to the Women's Prison of Saint-Lazare in Paris in 1901–02, which provided him with free models and compelling subject matter ( The Soup, 1902), were reflected in his depictions of Barcelona street people—blind or lonely beggars and castaways in 1902–03 ( Crouching Woman, 1902; Blind Man's Meal, 1903; Old Jew and a Boy, 1903). The subject of maternity (women were allowed to keep nursing children with them at the prison) also preoccupied Picasso at a time when he was searching for material that would best express traditional art-historical subjects in 20th-century terms.
http://www.biography.com/articles/Pablo-Picasso-9440021?part=2
No painter or sculptor, not even Michelangelo, had been as famous as this in his own lifetime. And it is quite possible that none ever will be again, now that the mandate to set forth social meaning, to articulate myth and generate widely memorable images has been so largely transferred from oil paintings and sculpture to other media: photography, movies, television. Though Marcel Duchamp, that cunning old fox of conceptual irony, has certainly had more influence on nominally vanguard art over the past 30 years than Picasso, the Spaniard was the last great beneficiary of the belief that the language of oil paintings and sculpture really mattered to people other than their devotees. And he was the first artist to enjoy the obsessive attention of mass media. He stood at the intersection of these two worlds. If that had not been so, his restless changes of style, his constant pushing of the envelope, would not have created such controversy--and thus such celebrity.
http://www.pablopicasso.org/
In 1937 the artist created his landmark painting Guernica, a protest against the barbaric air raid against a Basque village during the Spanish Civil War. Picasso's Guernica is a huge mural on canvas in black, white and grey which was created for the Spanish Pavilion of the Paris World's Fair in 1937. In Guernica, Picasso used symbolic forms - that are repeatedly found in his works following Guernica - like a dying horse or a weeping woman.
http://www.artelino.com/articles/pablo_picasso.asp
Why is Picasso's work so important for modern art?
Picasso's work is so important for modern art because his Cubism actually gave birth to abstract art.
10. said that "Action is the foundational key to all success."
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