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Pablo Picasso Timeline

Life events

born in Spain

1881

moves to Paris from Spain

1900

-lived in Montmartre
- artists' neighborhood near Juan Gris and Braque

died

1973

Phases of Styles

Blue Period

1901 - 1904

  • paintings of agonized teenager, angst -possibly started by death of friend Casagemas
  • dominant colour=blue

Rose Period

1905 - 1908

  • goes to Cirque Medrano
  • interested in preformers off stage
  • shedding disguises, never actually preforming

Cubism

1907 - 1909

  • first real revolutionary art movement

Analytical Cubism

1910 - 1916

-sticking things on the surface
- integrity of the picture surface

Neoclassical Style

1915 - 1921

Surrealist Period

1925 - 1928

  • did not join Breton's group

Monumental Archetypes

1929 - 1931

Sculpture

1932 - 1934

'Guernica' period

1937

  • worked on 'Guernica' for entire year

Return to Synthetic Cubism

1940 - 1945

Paintings

'Death of Casagemas'

1901

Blue Period painting

'Girl with Dove'

1901

dove= peace symbol
- saw communism as move toward world peace
- recurring motif in his work
- one of 1st things he drew

'La Vie'

1903

Blue Period

'Old Guitarist'

1903

Blue Period

'Harleqiun's Family'

1905

Rose Period

'Les Demoiselles D'Avignon'

1906 - 1907

  • beginning of Cubism period
  • fractured space
  • interest in primitive art
  • traditional subject matter
  • folds of tent relate back to Rose period

'Woman Playing the Mandolin'

1909

  • recreating pictorial space

'Still Life with Chair Caning'

1912

  • first fine art collage EVER
  • analytical Cubism period

'Three Musicians'

1921

  • looks like a collage
  • actually a painting
  • inspired by African art
  • harlequin= refers back to Rose Period

'Pipes of Pan

1923

Neoclassical period

'Woman with a Flower'

1932

-Picasso's Surrealism
- 1924= birth of Surrealism
- soft, rounded shapes
- sensuous

'Blind Minotaur being led by a Small Girl'

1934

  • more narrative
  • girl has a dove
  • obsession w/ minotaurs -> maybe b/c of bullfighting -leads up to Guernica

'Interior with Girl Drawing

1935

  • multiple viewpoints of Cubism
  • still life
  • rounded forms
  • angular forms
  • idea of taking off masks

'Minotauromachia'

1935

  • culmination of minotaur works
  • etching
  • famous
  • Theseus's return to Athens
  • last etching before 'Guernica'

'Guernica'

1937

-Spanish Civil War totally wiped out civillian town of Guernica
- didnt let it back in Spain until democracy returned
- black and white
- kept in New York-> Abstract Expressionists would've seen it
- broken soldier arm w/ broken sword
- like newpaper b/c learnt about it through press
- eye light bulb watching horror
- agony horse
- lamp lighting scene of horror
-woman burning in fire
- political painting
- minotaur maybe= bull of Spain's suffering

'Weeping Woman'

1937

  • based on Dora Maar
  • angular shapes
  • agony of war

'Still Life with Steer's Skull'

1942

  • only painting w/ vaguely discontented content during war
  • claustrophobic, black

'The Cockerel of the Liberation'

1944

  • done during war
  • veiled political message looking forward to liberation of France

'The Charnel House'

1945

  • political painting
  • again about Spanish Civil War --> family killed in kitchen
  • angular, uncomfortable
  • like Goya's 'Disasters of War'
  • shows in Paris at communist organised show in 1946
  • money went to survivors of resistance

'Massacre in Korea'

1951

  • contemporary horror
  • 6 months after start of Korean War
  • like Goya's '3rd May'

'War'

1952

  • mural
  • in deconsecrated 14th century chapel called Vellauris
  • 250 studies for this picture
  • inspired by Tolstoy's 'War and Peace'
  • dove on shield
  • can see biological weapons in painting

'The Studio' la Californie, Cannes

1956

-living near Matisse
- Matisse about colour, Picasso about form

'Las Meninas' sketches

1957

  • series of 58 paintings
  • based on Diego Velazquez's 'Las Meninas' 1656
  • reinterpreting it
  • becomes political
  • menacing, idea of inquisition
  • in blue and red--> fascist colours
  • tells of oppression
  • criticism of Franco's royal ambitions

'Reclining Nude with Man Playing the Guitar'

1970

  • based on Titian's 'Venus and Lute Player'
  • matches self up w/ great artists of past