| Pablo Picasso was encouraged by his father, an | | | | Henri Matisse in particular became a great friend |
| art teacher, to follow him into the art scene and | | | | to Picasso and they stayed close friends. |
| at a very early age it was clear that Pablo's | | | | Picasso's new direction led to the creation of the |
| natural talent would take him further than his | | | | Cubist movement, in conjunction with other |
| father. He joined the Barcelona School of Fine | | | | famous artists George Braque and Juan Gris. |
| Arts at the age of 14 and his father sacrificed his | | | | Cubism is based on construction through |
| own art in order to help Pablo Picasso progress as | | | | geometrical shapes. In later years, Synthetic |
| quickly in his career and training as possible. | | | | Cubism was developed, incorporating various |
| Picasso spent the years of 1900 to 1906 in what | | | | views of an object together. |
| is referred to as the Blue and Rose Period. The | | | | Picasso's art was enveloped by a symbolic style |
| Blue period involved the use of blue in most of | | | | as shown in his works "Guernica", "Dying horse" |
| Picasso's works to represent a negativity and | | | | and "Weeping woman". Guernica represented the |
| sadness of his paintings and those within them. | | | | Spanish Civil War air-attack in suitable barbarity |
| Art experts, even those who rejected his later | | | | and was shown at the Paris World's Fair in 1937. |
| innovative style, respected his blue period. The | | | | Guernica took pride of place in New York's |
| rose period signaled a choice of brighter pink | | | | museum of modern art up to 1981. It stayed |
| tones over the previous blues. | | | | away from Spain whilst Picasso rejected General |
| Pablo Picasso moved to Paris permanently in 1904. | | | | Franco's fascist rule of Spain. After this it was |
| Being the world's capital of arts, Paris helped | | | | taken to the Prado Museum and then the Queen |
| introduce Picasso to other famous artists such as | | | | Sofia Center of Art, both in Madrid, Spain. |
| Henri Matisse, Joan Miro and George Braques. | | | | |