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Pablo Picasso was born on the 25th of October 1881, in Andalusia, Spain. He was raised as a Catholic, but would later become an atheist.

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Picasso’s father was and artist and an art teacher. He began schooling Pablo in drawing and oil painting when he was seven. Pablo quickly became very good at art.

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At the age of 13, Picasso attended the school of fine arts in Barcelona, where his father taught.

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Picasso started to study at Madrid's Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, which was Spain's top art academy at the time. However Picasso attended only briefly, studying  famous artists and starting his own work.

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In the early years of Picasso's art, he liked painting portraits. The painting called “First Communion” (shown above) is of his sister Lola. As he got older, he started to paint landscapes, and the styles of Symbolism and Modernism could be seen.

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In 1900, Picasso moved to Paris to be part of the art scene. He shared a house with Max Jacob, a poet and journalist. The two lived poorly, and sometimes had to burn Picasso’s paintings to stay warm.

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After a year in France, Picasso moved to Madrid, and lived there for a few months. He worked with his friend Francisco Asis Soler on a magazine called "Young Art."
Picasso illustrated the magazine and it’s articles. He created cartoons to cheer up the poor. By the time the first copy came out, the Picasso had begun to sign his artworks.

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Between 1901 and 1904, after his friends suicide, Picasso became depressed. He painted with mostly blue paint, and his paintings were seen as very sad. This is why it is called the Blue Period, and was also called Expressionism

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During Picasso’s depression, he painted an oil painting called “The Old Guitarist” (shown above), which was his most famous Blue Period art piece.

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Picasso’s Rose Period, was less depressing than his Blue Period paintings because he started using shades of pink and rose sin his art. This was because he fell in love with a woman named Fernande Olivier. During the Rose Period, Picasso mostly painted circus clowns.
One of his first Rose Period paintings was “Family of Saltimbanques” (shown above).

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This painting “Boy with a Pipe” was another famous art work in the Rose Period.

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This artwork called “Self Portrait” (1906) shows Picasso at age 25.

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1907-1909: The African and Primitivism Period 

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1907-1909: The African and Primitivism Period 

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Picasso’s African art and Primitivism period was inspired by the angular African art he saw in an exhibit at the Palais de Trocadero and in an African mask owned by Henry Matisse. Picasso created “Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (shown above) during this time. Matisse didn’t like the artwork when Picasso first showed it to his friends.

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This was an artwork he made during the African period called “pears and apples”.

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Picasso worked with fellow painter Georges Braque in creating the beginnings of the Cubist movement in art. Their paintings show a palette of earth tones, with straight lines, shadows and shapes.

His girlfriend Fernande Olivier, appeared in many of the artist's Cubist works. “Seated Woman” (shown above) was one of them. However they broke up in 1912 after 7 years together.

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Picasso fell in love with another woman named Eva Gouel. She appeared in Picasso’s art work called “Woman with a Guitar," (shown above).

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Picasso spent some time as a soldier in World War I. After a while fighting he spent the rest of the war years in his studio creating his art.

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Picasso’s girlfriend, Eva Gouel, died of tuberculosis.

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Picasso had a few girlfriends. His relationship with Gaby Depeyre Lespinesse lasted a year.
In 1917 he briefly dated a 20-year-old actress, Paquerette, and Irene Lagut. A while later he met Olga Khoklova, a ballet dancer from Russia, who became his first wife in 1918.

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From the start of his first visit to Italy and the end of World War I, Picasso’s art changed in style. His paintings, such as the watercolor “Peasants Sleeping” (shown above) were a more classical style compared to his Cubist paintings.

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Picasso had a son, Paolo, with Olga.

Later, Picasso and Olga split up. They remained legally married until she died in 1955.

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Picasso met Marie-Therese Walter, a 17-year-old girl from Spain. Marie-Therese gave birth to Picasso's daughter Maya.

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Marie-Therese inspired the artist's "Vollard Suite," which consists of 100 etchings.

Picasso and Marie-Therese remained a couple until 1936.

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Picasso's mistress and muse Dora Maar inspired his series of paintings The Weeping Woman. There were 4 paintings were made by Picasso after the bombing of Guernica in the Spanish civil war.

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During World War II, Picasso stayed in Paris under German rule while he continued to create art. Some of the time, he also wrote poetry.

After Paris was free, Picasso began a new relationship with the much younger art student Francoise Gilot.

In 1947, Picasso and Francoise Gilot had a son named Claude.

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Picasso and Francoise had a daughter, Paloma in 1949.

As 1949 was coming to a close, their relationship ended, and Picasso focused on sculpture. He created a sculpture known as the “Chicago Picasso” (shown above), which he donated to the U. S. city.

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Picasso married his second wife Jacqueline Roque. She was 27 years old and inspired the majority of Picasso’s artworks. He made more than 70 portraits of her during the final 17 years he was alive.

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This was Picasso's final art work. it was also called "Self Portrait" He was 91 years old.

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Pablo Picasso died on the 8th of April in Mougins France. He was 92 years of age. He was married to Jacqueline Roque, and had 4 children. He was buried in Vauvenargues Castle, Vauvenargues, France.