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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Ruiz and the second or maternal
family name is Picasso.
Pablo Picasso
Picasso in 1908
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los
Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso[1]
Born
25 October 1881
Málaga, Spain
8 April 1973 (aged 91)
Died
Mougins, France
Resting Château of Vauvenargues
place 43.554142°N 5.604438°E
Nationality Spanish
José Ruiz y Blasco (father)
Education Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Known for Painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, stage design, writing
La Vie (1903)
Family of Saltimbanques (1905)
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907)
Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1910)
Notable Girl before a Mirror (1932)
work Le Rêve (1932)
Guernica (1937)
The Weeping Woman (1937)
Massacre in Korea (1951)
Movement Cubism, Surrealism
Olga Khokhlova
Spouse(s) (m. 1918; died 1955)
Jacqueline Roque
(m. 1961)
Marie-Thérèse Walter (1927–1935)
Dora Maar (1935–1943)
Partner(s)
Françoise Gilot (1943–1953)
Children Paulo Picasso (b.1921)
Maya Widmaier-Picasso (b.1935)
Claude Picasso (b.1947)
Paloma Picasso (b.1949)
Marina Picasso (b.1950, granddaughter)
Family Bernard Ruiz-Picasso (b.1959, grandson)
Patron(s) Sergei Shchukin
Pablo Ruiz Picasso[a][b] (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. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known
for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture,[8][9] 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 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 slightly 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.[10]
[11][12][13]
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.
