Pablo Ruiz Picasso, whose full name was Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso; but was known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso, was born in the city of Málaga, Spain on October 25, 1881. Picasso was a Spanish artist who is widely known for the co-founding of the Cubist movement and helped develop a wide variety of styles of art.
Picasso he was the first child of Don José Ruiz y Blasco and María Picasso y Lopez. His family was middle-class. Picasso showed a passion and a skill for drawing from an early age; becoming preoccupied with art to the detriment of his classwork. In 1895, Picasso was traumatized when his seven-year old sister, Conchita, died of diphtheria. After her death, the family moved to Barcelona. Picasso thrived in the city, regarding it in times of sadness or nostalgia as his true home.
Picasso’s father and uncle decided to send the young artist to Madrid’s Royal Academy of San Fernando, the country's foremost art school. At age 16, Picasso set off for the first time on his own, but he disliked formal instruction and quit attending classes soon after enrollment. Madrid, however, held many other attractions.
During the first decade of the 20th century, his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. His revolutionary artistic accomplishments made him universal renown and brought him immense fortune, making him one of the best-known figures in 20th century art.
In the early 20th century, Picasso divided his time between Barcelona and Paris. All throughout his life, Picasso maintained a number of mistresses in addition to his wife or primary partner. Picasso was married twice and had four children by at least three women, and had numerous other mistresses. Each of his wives/mistresses played large roles in his art works, such as his paintings. Some of these mistresses and wives stayed with him throughout his life; Such as the photographer and painter Dora Maar, who was a constant companion and lover of Picasso. It was Maar who documented the painting of Guernica, one of Picasso's most famous works.
Picasso had continued numerous affairs with significantly younger women up through his 70s. Eventually, as evident in his work, Picasso began to come to terms with his advancing age and his waning attraction to young women. By his 70s, many paintings, ink drawings and prints have as their theme an old, grotesque dwarf as the doting lover of a beautiful young model.
Pablo Picasso died on 8 April 1973 in his home in Mougins, France, while he and his wife Jacqueline entertained friends for dinner. His final words were “Drink to me, drink to my health, you know I can’t drink any more.” Devastated and lonely after the death of Picasso, Jacqueline Roque took her own life by gunshot in 1986 when she was 60 years old. A few of his mistresses, such as Marie-Thérèse (the two also had a child); who, lived in the vain hope that Picasso would one day marry her, hanged herself four years after Picasso’s death. The two had first met in 1927.
Picasso's work is often categorized into periods. While the names of many of his later periods are debated, the most commonly accepted periods in his work are the Blue Period (1901–1904), the Rose Period (1905–1907), the African-influenced Period (1908–1909), Analytic Cubism (1909–1912), and Synthetic Cubism (1912–1919).
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