Biography
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) 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, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and the anti-war painting Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War.
Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a naturalistic 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. After 1906, the Fauvist work of the older artist Henri Matisse motivated Picasso to explore more radical styles, beginning a fruitful rivalry between the two artists, who subsequently were often paired by critics as the leaders of modern art.
Picasso's work is often categorized into periods. While the names of many of his later periods are debated, the most commonly accepted periods in his work are the Blue Period (1901–1904), the Rose Period (1904–1906), the African-influenced Period (1907–1909), Analytic Cubism (1909–1912), and Synthetic Cubism (1912–1919), also referred to as the Crystal period. Much of Picasso's work of the late 1910s and early 1920s is in a neoclassical style, and his work in the mid-1920s often has characteristics of Surrealism. His later work often combines elements of his earlier styles.
Exceptionally prolific throughout the course of his long life, Picasso achieved universal renown and immense fortune for his revolutionary artistic accomplishments, and became one of the best-known figures in 20th-century art.
Picasso was born at 23:15 on 25 October 1881, in the city of Málaga, Andalusia, in southern Spain. He was the first child of Don José Ruiz y Blasco (1838–1913) and María Picasso y López. Picasso's family was of middle-class background. His father was a painter who specialized in naturalistic depictions of birds and other game. For most of his life, Ruiz was a professor of art at the School of Crafts and a curator of a local museum. Ruiz's ancestors were minor aristocrats.
Picasso's birth certificate and the record of his baptism include very long names, combining those of various saints and relatives. Ruiz y Picasso were his paternal and maternal surnames, respectively, per Spanish custom. The surname "Picasso" comes from Liguria, a coastal region of north-western Italy. Pablo's maternal great-grandfather, Tommaso Picasso, moved to Spain around 1807. ...
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Filmography
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self 31
Movies 30
TV Shows 6
Writer 2
Le minotaure, c'est moi ! Picasso et les taureaux (2023)
Der Minotaurus, das bin ich! Picasso und die Stiere (2023)
Picasso sans légende (2023)
Le Siècle des icônes (2022)
Becoming Cousteau (2021)
Correspondances : Jean Cocteau - Pablo Picasso (2021)
Picasso in Vallauris (2021)
Un été à la Garoupe (2020)
Pablo Picasso et Françoise Gilot : la femme qui dit non (2020)
Young Picasso (2019)
Looking for Modern Art: Rethinking Art History (2018)
The Clouzot Scandal (2017)
Konstsamlaren och katastrofen (2017)
The Adventurers of Modern Art (2015)
Picasso: The Legacy (2014)
Looking for Picasso (2013)
Public Speaking (2010)
Picasso and Dance (2006)
Picassos Friseur (2001)
13 Days in the Life of Pablo Picasso (1999)
Faith of the Century: A History of Communism (1999)
Picasso (1985)
Notre Dame de la Croisette (1983)
Wie man Wünsche beim Schwanz packt (1971)
Le Désir attrapé par la queue (1967)
Our World (1967)
New Reports from France (1964)
Testament of Orpheus (1960)
The Mystery of Picasso (1956)
En direct de... (1956)
Cinépanorama (1956)
Picasso (1954)
Life Begins Tomorrow (1950)
A Visit to Picasso (1950)
The Century Is Fifty (1950)
La Garoupe (1937)
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GenderMale
Birthday1881-10-25
Deathday1973-04-08 (91 years old)
Birth NamePablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso
Birth PlaceMálaga, Spain
Religionatheism
Height
RelationshipsJacqueline Roque (1961-03-02 - 1973-01-01), Olha Khokhlova (1918-07-12 - 1955-02-11), Françoise Gilot (1948-01-01 - 1953-01-01), Marie-Thérèse Walter (1927-01-01 - 1935-01-01), Fernande Olivier (1904-01-01 - 1912-01-01), Dora Maar (1936-01-01 - 1944-01-01)
ChildrenPaloma Picasso, Maya Widmaier-Picasso, Claude Picasso, Paulo Picasso
FatherJosé Ruiz y Blanco
MotherMaria Picasso y Lopez
SiblingsLola Ruiz Picasso
RelativesJosé Vilató Ruiz, Xavier Vilató, Javier Vilató y Ruiz
CitizenshipsSpain
ResidencesChâteau of Vauvenarg · rue des Grands-Augustins · Mas Notre-Dame-de-Vie de Mougins, France
AwardsLenin Peace Prize
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