Picasso's Work example essay topic

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Picasso was born in Malaga, the son of a painting teacher Jose Ruiz B lasco. In 1891 the family moved to La Coruna and then later moved onto Barcelona. In Barcelona Picasso's father got a job teaching at Llotja. In 1896 he started studying at the school where his father teacher.

Picasso went to Madrid for two years, between 1897 and 1898, where he studied at the San Fernando Academy. He returned to Barcelona and joined the Els Quatre Gats group, where he had his first portrait exhibition in 1897. I between different trips to Paris, Barcelona and sometimes Madrid, he worked intensively producing exhibitions and researching the new painters of the time such as Bonnard and Vuillard. He later started what was named his 'blue period'. Then he made another change to his work in 1906 and 1907 which was influenced by primitive African Sculptures and from this he painted his most famous work 'Les Mademoiselles d'Avigon'. Later he started to investigate 'Analytical Cubism'.

He painted his first cubist landscapes in Horta de Sant Joan, and produced an extensive portfolio of still life's, human figures and 'collages' until he reached a style called 'Synthetic Cubism'. In 1917, after coming back from Italy, he made another change in his style by going back to figuratism. In the Spanish Civil War he went back to Spain and in 1937 and was named, Director of the Prado Museum. Then at the start of the World War he settled in France where he continued painting tragic themes and distorted figures.

He also lived in Vall auris, where he produced his well known ceramic work. In 1955 he set off on a new pictorial path based in the recreation and dissection of classical works of the great masters of the past, culminating in the 'Les Menines's e ries. At the end of his enormous productive career, he produced an incredible amount of work with erotic, biting and sarcastic mythological subjects. Picasso's work has been displayed in many high profile museums such as Picasso Museum of Barcelona, of Paris, of Antibes, the Metropolitan in New York and in the National Gallery in Washington.