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Picasso paints his first oil painting, which is a painting technique made with oil. It consists of mixing the pigments with an oil-based binder, usually of plant origin.
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Picasso begins to study art under the tutelage of his father, painter and teacher.
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Picasso's sister dies with 7 years of diphtheria. The Picasso family moves to Barcelona and he enters the School of Fine Arts in Llotja.
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Picasso is awarded a gold medal at the Exhibition of Fine Arts in Malaga. Picasso participates in the General Exhibition of "Bellas Artes of Madrid". Following his father's instructions he continued his artistic training at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid.
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Els Quatre Cats hosts Picasso's first solo exhibition. He travels to Paris, capital of art at the time, with his friend Carles Casagemas to participate at the World's Fair. Meet the one who will be his first dealer, Pere Mañach, and the gallerist Berthe Weil. He began a multi-year period in which he made several trips between Barcelona, Paris, Madrid and Malaga.
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Picasso begins to paint all his works only with shades of blue. He did this until about 1904, that is, for three years.
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Picasso goes from painting everything with shades of blue to painting everything with shades of pink. This began in 1905 and came to an end in 1907.
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It lasts from 1907 to 1909.
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Cubism was an artistic movement developed between 1909 and 1919, created by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, which consists of making paintings only with"cubes" and geometric figures.
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This stage corresponds to a time of personal stability (Picasso married the dancer Olga Koklova and had with her son Paul) and the rediscovery classic world as a result of a trip to Italy. It lasts from 1917 to 1925.
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Picasso paints surreal paintings, of abstract forms. It lasts from 1925 to 1935.
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It lasted from 1937 to 1947. Expressionism is an artistic current that seeks the expression of the author's feelings and emotions more than the representation of objective reality.
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It lasted between 1947 and 1954. Picasso, who lived in Paris, rents a room two kilometres from Vallauris to make some iron corrections. Chance causes a painter friend of yours to introduce you to Suzanne and George Ramié, who had a pottery workshop. There he leaves temporarily painting to devote himself full-time to ceramics and sculpture. In a very short time he made more than six hundred pieces.
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An elderly Pablo Picasso who has definitely settled in that corner of the world as quiet as the "Costa Azul" rests in his study reviewing the works of classical authors. It is surrounded by Rafael, Velázquez, Delacroix, Manet, Goya... and makes versions of his most famous canvases. It lasts from 1954 to 1973.
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Here ends the story of a great artist, painter, sculptor, ceramicist... who dies of natural causes in Mougins. His remains are buried in the garden of his castle in Vauvenargues.