Picasso

Pablo Picasso is one of the artists to have revolutionized the art of the 20^th century. Born 1881 in Spain and drawing from an early age, he later moved to Paris where he established his studio. Picasso’s progression in his early work is largely categorized by predominant colour schemes: His Blue Period (1901-1904) features motifs from everyday Parisian life, followed by the more lyrical Rose Period. Subsequently, Picasso transitioned to the avant-garde Cubist art movement, that he founded together with Georges Braque in France among others. In Cubism, picture elements are broken into pieces and then rearranged in an abstract manner. The Cubist movement fundamentally changed the face of European painting and sculpting styles and further impacted music, literature, and architecture. It further inspired further art movements like Dada, Constructivism, Futurism in other European countries.

After his death in 1973, Picasso left a plethora of artworks of an astonishing range, besides paintings and drawings including ceramics, sculpture, printmaking, and collage. Throughout his career, he produced over 20,000 pieces of art.