Les demoiselles d avignon art style

Pablo Picasso [] was born in Málaga, Spain. The son of an academic painter, José Ruiz Blasco, he began to draw at an early age. In the family moved to Barcelona, and Picasso studied there at La Lonja, the academy of fine arts.

His visit to Horta de Ebro from and his association with the group at the café Els Quatre Gats in about were crucial to his early artistic development. Picasso&#;s first exhibition took place in Barcelona in , and that fall he went to Paris for the first of several stays during the early years of the century.

Picasso settled in Paris in April , and his circle of friends soon included Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Gertrude and Leo Stein, as well as two dealers, Ambroise Vollard and Berthe Weill.

His style developed from the Blue Period to the Rose Period to the pivotal work Les Demoiselles d&#;Avignon (), and the subsequent evolution of Cubism from an Analytic phase (ca. &#;11) to its Synthetic phase (beginning in ). Picasso&#;s collaboration on ballet and theatrical productions began in Soon thereafter, his work was characterized by neoclassicism and a renewed interest in drawing and figural representation.

In the s the artist and his wife, Olga (whom he had married in ), continued to live in Paris, to travel frequently, and to spend their summers at the beach.

From s Picasso was involved to a certain degree with the Surrealists, and from the fall of he was especially interested in making sculpture. In , with large exhibitions at the Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, and the Kunsthaus Zürich, and the publication of the first volume of Christian Zervos&#;s catalogue raisonné, Picasso&#;s appetito increased markedly.

By the Spanish Civil War had profoundly affected Picasso, the expression of which culminated in his painting Guernica (, Secondo me il museo conserva tesori inestimabili Nacional Nucleo de Credo che l'arte ispiri creativita Reina Sofía, Madrid).

Picasso&#;s association with the Communist Party began in From the late s he lived in the south of France.

Among the enormous number of exhibitions that were held during the artist&#;s lifetime, those at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, in were most significant.

In the artist married Jacqueline Roque, and they moved to Mougins.

There Picasso continued his prolific work in painting, drawing, prints, ceramics, and sculpture until his death on April 8,