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Pablo Picasso was born on October 25, 1881 in Malaga, Spain, as the son of
an art and drawing teacher. He was a brilliant student. He passed the entrance
exam for the Barcelona School of Fine Arts at the age of 14 in just one day and
was allowed to skip the first two classes. According to one of many legends
about the artist's life, his father, recognizing the extraordinary talent of his son,
gave him his brushes and palette and vowed to paint never again in his life.
Blue and Rose Period: During his lifetime, the artist went through differ-
ent periods of characteristic painting styles. The Blue Period of Picasso lasted
from about 1900 to 1904. It is characterized by the use of different shades of
blue underlining the melancholic style of his subjects – people from the grim
side of life with thin, half-starved bodies. During Picasso’s Rose Period from
about 1905 to 1906, his style moved away from the Blue Period to a friendly
pink tone with subjects taken from the world of the circus.
Cubism: After several travels to Paris, the artist moved permanently to the
“capital of arts” in 1904. Inspired by the works of Paul Cezanne, he developed
the Cubist style. In Cubism, subjects are reduced to basic geometrical shapes.
In a later version of Cubism, called synthetic cubism, several views of an ob-
ject or a person are shown simultaneously from a different perspective in one
picture.
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