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Biography of Picasso
By Efrain Ojeda

Pablo Picasso was born in Magala, Spain. He was born on October 25, 1881. Throughout his childhood he was really into art, and his passion was drawing. Picasso moved to the big city of Barcelona when his sister died. From there his artist career started to finally go off. He then moved out at the age of 16 to attend a royal art school in Madrid and started to become inspired by other artists. During his lifetime, he had been married to 2 women, and had 4 kids with 3 different women. Early in the 20th century he had joined an art gallery in Paris, where his art finally started to become noticed. During World War 2, he stayed in Paris in hopes of the Nazi’s not capturing him for being outspoken against war and several of his paintings were antiwar. Pablo had received many awards for his art. His paintings were becoming famous and worldwide known. Pablo Picasso died on April 8, 1973 in Mougins, France.

The medians Picasso used were mostly just paintings. Writing was also a passion of Picasso. He had written over 300 poems during the Cold War. Picasso’s work was based off of mostly his feelings, and his art was separated into 4 different categories. The Blue Period; His paintings were based off of his sadness towards his friend who had committed suicide. He used depressing figures and the color blue to represent sorrow and depression. The Rose Period; his paintings were based off of his happiness, when he started dating a model. The African influenced period consisted of African influenced artifacts. The paintings during this time period of Picasso were sort of similar to the paintings in the Cubism period in some ways. Cubism, which was based off of collages and different figures all collided with each other. Often used different pieces of wall paper and newspaper articles bunched up together.

Picasso’s art really inspires me a lot. I really like how his art was categorized into 4 different groups, depending on what was going on in his life, and what he was going through. I like the paintings because they all represented different things and all had a meaning behind it. His paintings also consisted of antiwar tactics and several paintings of how people suffered during the Cold War. He was a very outspoken person. I connect to his art because his art was all about emotion, something everybody faces in their life. The techniques Picasso used that I would try to use in Photography class are probably by taking pictures of people in their normal state. Have them show emotion, instead of it being just a normal picture.