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Death

On the 8^th day of April, year 1973; Picasso took his last breath while he and his wife Jacqueline were enjoying a dinner party, in which they were entertaining their friends. Picasso's last words as he inhaled his last breath and enjoyed his last meal, were, "Drink to me, drink to my health, you know I can't drink anymore."

Picasso remains one of the most renowned and important artists of the 20^th century. His artistic achievements have led to extreme influence in the world of fine arts and modern arts. Picasso is one of the most important artists known in history.

Classicism and Surrealism

During the times between World War I and the Spanish civil war, Picasso began painting pieces of Classicism and Surrealism style and feel. During these times, he went back to more traditional styles, and the neo-classical styles. In his surrealist interpretations of painting and art he produced very surprising and distorted interpretations. His classicism phase contained many traditional images and interpretations of art and painting, many of his pieces from this time were of nurturing nature, such as those of a mother and her child. Picasso's different trials of these artistic styles did avert him from the style of Cubism.

The Birth of Cubism

In 1908, after Picasso's several trips to La Rue des Bois; Picasso finally formed an artistic kinship with Georges Braque; who – along with Picasso – was the co-founder of Cubism. Picasso's cubism periods were split into two, being the period of analytic cubism, and synthetic cubism. Analytic cubism is characterized by the use of neutral colors, the most common being brown; the two artists would "analyze" the shape of different objects and place them in the center. Synthetic cubism was a development to analytic cubism; in this style Picasso would add pieces or fragments of newspaper pages into his paintings; this was the first time a collage was used in fine art.

Rose Period-His Career Continues

In the April of 1904, Picasso moved to Paris. Continuing his career, and befriending other people along the way. Soon after he moved to Paris, Picasso befriended and became associated with Guillame Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Gertrude and Leo Stein, Ambroise Vollard and Berthe Weill. His artistic period known as the Rose Period, began soon after he moved to Paris, in 1905. This style was characterized by the use of "cheerful" colors, being of the orange and pink family, the friendly pink tone, usually tended to depict subjects taken from the world of the circus. This style of art was influenced by his mistress Fernande Olivier, because of their many visits to the circus.

His Artistic Career Begins

In 1895, Picasso's family moved to Barcelona. There, Picasso studied at the academy of fine arts, La Lonja; his associations with the group at the café Els Quatre Gats and his visits to Horta de Ebro were crucial to his artistic development. His successful early artistic development led to his first exhibition in Barcelona, 1900. Soon after, his blue period began; which was the artistic period characterized by the use of different shades and tints of blue to spotlight miserable style of his characters, being from the gloomy side of his life; picturing them as grim, pictured as thin, with half-starved bodies.

Hometown

The first son of Jose Ruiz y Blasco and Maria Picasso y Lopez; the world famous Spanish artist, Pablo Picasso, was born on October 25th, 1881 in Malaga, Spain. The world renowned painter first learned the artistic basics from his father, who was a painter and professor at the School of Crafts and the curator of a local museum. Picasso is estimated to have produced about 13,500 painting or designs, 100,000 prints or engravings, 34,000 book illustrations and 300 sculptures and/or ceramics. The successful artist is best known as being one of the founders of cubism, and of course he was known for modernism.