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Pablo Picasso (Málaga, 25 October 1881 – Mougins, 8 April 1973). The model offered by his father, a drawing professor at the school of fine arts, was very important for his artistic education. Read the full biography

Pablo Picasso (Málaga, 25 October 1881 – Mougins, 8 April 1973). The model offered by his father, a drawing professor at the school of fine arts, was very important for his artistic education. Both due to his father's initiation and his natural talent, Picasso became very good, so much so that he held his first exhibition at just fourteen years old in La Coruna. Arriving in Barcelona, ​​the artist came into contact with friends of impressionism and post-impressionism, which led to a move away from academic rigidity in favor of freer creations. There is a use of free forms and pure colors aimed at greater expressiveness. In the early years of the twentieth century Picasso found himself in Paris where he remained even during the war years of which the work Guernica is an emblematic testimony. Picasso's production is usually divided into periods such as the "blue period" (1901-1904), the "pink period" (1905-1907), the "African period" (1908-1909), the "analytical cubism" ( 1909-1912), "synthetic cubism" (1912-1919). The "blue period" began in 1901, during which Picasso mainly used blue in all its shades and the subjects were mainly poor and marginalized. From 1905 to the end of 1906, shades of pink appear on Picasso's palette and the subjects represented are acrobats and masks from the harlequin comedy. The cubist turning point occurred between 1906 and 1907, a period during which it was influenced by Cezanne's painting and African sculpture; an important partnership with George Braque also began. After the cubist phase, which lasted ten years, Picasso's style underwent an inversion becoming more