The Work and Life of Pablo Picasso

The Work and Life of Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso started working at art when he was very young. He made

hi debut as an artist in 1893, at the age of only 12 with his father

Guidance. Picasso even drew before he could even walk. He had got in

to the advanced classes at the royal academy of art when he was only

14 years of age, and his painting career was so long that he was

actually still painting pictures at the ripe old age of 91.

Pablo Picasso was born on the 25th October 1881 and died on the 8th

April 1973. Even though he was so old when he died, it is written that

he kept on painting until the day that he actually died.

Picasso had many different eras of paintings. Some were in many shades

of blue, but then there were ones in colours like pinks and greys.

When Picasso painted with the style cubism, he painted the world not

from one angle, but from many different angles. Picasso’s artwork

consisted of him breaking normal objects in to many different sized

pieces. Some weren’t even cubes but the name cubism stuck with

Picasso’s style of work. Picasso started the era of cubism in 1907,

with painting that he had called “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”.

Pablo Picasso created more than 22,000 works of art during his

lifetime. One of the paintings that he did, Las Meninas, he painted 36

times in different styles. To make each of the versions different, he

used colours, shapes and space to make each one different from the

rest of them. But in the first place he based all of the 36 pictures

on the original by Diego Velasquez.

Picasso’s mother was called Maria Picasso Lopez and his father was

called Jose Ruiz Blasco. Instead of taking his fathers name like you

would normally for a surname, Picasso decided to take his mothers,

because he found it sounded a lot more interesting than Ruiz.

When he was painting, it took Picasso a long time to become happy with