Pablo Picasso

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Pablo Picasso

• King of Modern Art

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OVERVIEW

• Led the forces of artistic innovations for over
  fifty years.
• He would invent a new style and as soon as it
  became accepted, he would move on to create a new
  style.
• Picasso produced an estimated 50,000 works.

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Blue Period 1901-1904

• Picassos first original style.
• Grew out of his years an impoverished artist.
• Called blue period because of the indigo and
  cobalt colors used.
• He was obsessed with blind beggars and
  derelicts, literally projecting the blues he
  felt during this time.
• Elongated the figures to further add
  expressionistic quality.

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Rose Period
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Rose Period 1905-1906

• Picasso settled full time in Paris.
• He met his first love Fernande Olivier and his
  depression vanished.
• Used delicate pinks and earth colors to paint
  circus performers like harlequins
• and acrobats.
• Sentimental and Romantic

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Analytical Cubism 1907

• Inspired by African Art at a museum show in
  Paris, Picasso began to simplify his subject
  matter.
• He was intrigued by the simple geometric shapes
  of the African masks .
• Wanted to reveal the essence of the subject .
• Took multiple points of view on one picture
  plane.
• Simplified and employed geometric shapes.

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Les Demoiselles dAvignon The Maids of
Avignon This painting started the Cubist
Movement.
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Analytical Cubism

• Worked closely with Braque.
• Their work is so similar that even art historians
  have a difficult time distinguishing between the
  two artists works during this time.
• Monchromatic colors and shifting of picture
  planes.

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Synthetic Cubism

• Braque and Picasso invented this new art form
  called collage from the french word Coller
  meaning to glue.
• Incorporated stenciled lettering and paper scraps.

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Picasso
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Synthetic Cubism
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• Maquette for Guitar
• 1912

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Braque