Pablo Picasso
- Introduction
- 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. 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, 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.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.
- Wikidata
- Q5593
- Introduction
- Long-lived and very influential Spanish artist, active in France. He dominated 20th-century European art. With Georges Braque, he is credited with inventing Cubism.
- Nationality
- Spanish
- Gender
- Male
- Roles
- Artist, Ceramicist, Writer, Decorative Artist, Genre Artist, Painter, Sculptor
- Names
- Pablo Picasso, Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispín Crispiniano de la Santissima Trinidad Ruiz Blasco Picasso, Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, Pablo Ruiz, Pablo Ruys Picasso, Pablo Ruys, Pablo Ruiz Y Picasso, Picasso, p. picasso
- Ulan
- 500009666
Exhibitions
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523: Pablo Picasso’s Interior with a Girl Drawing
Ongoing
MoMA
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517: Surrealist Objects
Ongoing
MoMA
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505: Circa 1913
Ongoing
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514: Paris 1920s
Through summer 2021
MoMA
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503: Around Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
Through fall 2021
MoMA
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Pablo Picasso has
321 exhibitionsonline.
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Pablo Picasso Self Portrait (Yo) 1901
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Pablo Picasso The Frugal Repast (Le Repas frugal) from the Saltimbanques series 1904, published 1913
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Pablo Picasso Brooding Woman (recto); Three Children (verso) 1904
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Pablo Picasso La belle qui passe (1904)
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Pablo Picasso The Frugal Repast (Le Repas frugal ) from the Saltimbanques series 1904
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Pablo Picasso Meditation (Contemplation) (late 1904)
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Pablo Picasso Salomé from the Saltimbanques series 1905, published 1913
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Pablo Picasso Head of a Woman, in Profile (Tête de femme, de profil) from the Saltimbanques series 1905
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Pablo Picasso Head of a Woman: Madeleine (Tête de femme: Madeleine) 1905, published 1913
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Pablo Picasso The Barbarous Dance (in Front of Salomé and Hérode) (La Danse barbare [devant Salomé et Herode]) from the Saltimbanques series 1905, published 1913
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Pablo Picasso The Acrobat in Repose (Le Saltimbanque au repos) from the Saltimbanques series 1905, published 1913
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Pablo Picasso The Two Acrobats (Les Deux saltimbanques) from the Saltimbanques series 1905, published 1913
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Pablo Picasso The Acrobats (Les Saltimbanques) from the Saltimbanques series 1905, published 1913
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Pablo Picasso Family of Acrobats with Macaque (La Famille de saltimbanques au macaque) from the Saltimbanques series 1905, published 1913
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Pablo Picasso Family with a Crow (1905)
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Pablo Picasso Two Acrobats with a Dog 1905
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Pablo Picasso The Jester 1905 (cast 1950s)
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Pablo Picasso The Watering Place (Horses Bathing) (L'Abreuvoir [Chevaux au bain]) from the Saltimbanques series 1906, published 1913
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Pablo Picasso The Flower Girl (1906)
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Pablo Picasso Two Nudes Paris, late 1906
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Pablo Picasso Head (Study for Les Demoiselles d'Avignon) 1906
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Pablo Picasso Boy Leading a Horse Paris, 1905-06
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Pablo Picasso The Swineherd 1906
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Pablo Picasso Two Nudes (1906)
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Pablo Picasso Nude with Joined Hands 1906
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Pablo Picasso Woman Plaiting Her Hair Paris, late summer or fall 1906
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Pablo Picasso Les Demoiselles d'Avignon Paris, June-July 1907
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Pablo Picasso Head of the Medical Student (Study for Les Demoiselles d'Avignon) 1907
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Pablo Picasso Head of a Sleeping Woman (Study for Nude with Drapery) Paris, summer 1907
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Pablo Picasso Study for Les Demoiselles D'Avignon Paris, early 1907
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Pablo Picasso Bathers in a Forest 1908
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Pablo Picasso Vase of Flowers Paris, spring 1908
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Pablo Picasso Sheet of Studies (1908)
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Pablo Picasso Repose Paris, spring 1908
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Pablo Picasso Landscape La Rue des Bois or Paris, August or September 1908
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Pablo Picasso Still Life with Fruit and Glass Paris, fall 1908
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Pablo Picasso Woman's Head early 1908
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Pablo Picasso Bather 1908
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Pablo Picasso Head of a Woman (Spring 1909)
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Pablo Picasso Woman's Head (Fernande) Paris, fall 1909
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Pablo Picasso Fruit Dish Paris, winter 1908-09
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Pablo Picasso Still Life with Fruit Dish (Nature morte au compotier) 1908–09
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Pablo Picasso Casket, Cup and Apple (Winter 1909)
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Pablo Picasso Still Life with Liqueur Bottle Horta de San Joan, August 1909
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Pablo Picasso The Mill at Horta (Summer 1909)
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Pablo Picasso The Reservoir, Horta de Ebro Horta de Sant Joan, summer 1909
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Pablo Picasso Bather winter 1908-09
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Pablo Picasso Woman with Pears Horta de San Joan, summer 1909
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