Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso{{ref|name}}, formally Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Spanish painter, (October 25, 1881 – April 8, 1973) was one of the recognized masters of 20th century art, probably most famous as the founder, along with Georges Braque, of Cubism.

Periods

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:

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• Blue Period (1901-1904) - sombre paintings which are influenced from a trip in Spain, his sad mood in many of the pictures possibly coming from his reaction to the death of a friend.
• Rose Period (1905-1907) - A more cheerful style in orange and pink colours, which featured many harlequins. He met Fernande Oliver in Paris and many of these paintings are influenced by his warm relationship with her, and also from French painting.
• African influenced Period (1908-09) - Influenced by the two figures on the right in his painting of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, he used African artifacts as the inspiration for his work.
• Analytic Cubism (1909-12) - A style of painting he developed along with Braque using monochrome brownish colours, where they took apart objects and 'analysed' them in terms of their shapes. Picasso's and Braque's paintings at this time are very similar to each other.
• Synthetic Cubism (1912-19) - Involving the use of collage and cut paper, it was the first time collage had been used as a fine art work.