| CHRONOLOGY
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| OCT.
25, 1881 |
Pablo Picasso
was born in Malaga, Spain. |
| 1891-1892 |
Family moved to
La Coruoa, Galicia. He began to study with his father, a painter at the Fine Arts at La
Corua. |
| 1900 |
Returned to
Barcelona where he oftenly visited cabaret of intellectuals and artists. |
| 1901–1904 |
Known as the
"blue period" because of the blue tonality of Picasso’s paintings a time of
frequent changes of residence between Barcelona and Paris. |
| 1905–1906 |
Moved to Paris.
Marked a radical change in color and mood for Picasso. He started to paint in subtle pinks
and grays, often highlighted with brighter tones and this was known as his ‘Rose
Period.’ Met George Braque. |
| 1907 |
Picasso painted
"Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon" – considered as the watershed picture of
the 20th century. Began to work on the painting Les Demoiselles d’
Avignon. |
| 1909 |
Created Cubist
sculptures as paintings. The bronze bust ‘Fernande Oliver (also called Head of a
Woman). Created Baboon and Young, as well as pop art objects. |
| 1911 |
First
exhibition in the United States at Photo – Section Gallery in New York. |
| 1912 |
Began to work
in college. |
| 1914-1918 |
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Went to Rome,
working as a designer with Sergey Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes. He met a dancer Olga
Koklova and married her. He made several portraits of his wife and their son - Paulo as
Harleguin "The Three Women at the Spring’. Fell in love with Marie Therese
Walter. |
| 1920 |
Continued to
design theater sets and painted in Cubist, Classical and Surreal modes. |
| 1929–1931 |
He did a large
quantity of graphic illustrations. He pioneered wrought iron sculpture with his old friend
Julio Gonzalez. |
| 1932 |
Retrospective
exhibition Shown in Paris and Zurich. |
| 1935 |
Birth of their
daughter Maria. Marie Therese frequently portrayed sleeping, also was the model for the
famous ‘Girl Before a Mirror’. |
| 1937 |
The saturation
bombing of the civilian of Guernica Spain by Nazi Luftwaffe. Picasso respond with his
great anti-war painting "Guernica". |
| 1939-1945 |
During the II
World War death was the subject of his numerous paintings such as ‘Still Life with
Steer’s Skull’ and ‘The Charnel House’. He formed a new liaison during
the 1940s with the painter Francois Gilot who born him two children. She appeared in his
many works that recapitulated his earlier styles. The last of Picasso’s companions to
be portrayed was Jacqueline Roque, whom he met in 1953 and married in 1961. Then he spent
much of his time in southern France. He completed a welded steel maquette (model) for the
18.3 – m. (60.ft.) sculpture. Head of a woman (unveiled in 1967) for Chicago’s
Civic Center. |
| 1968 |
He created an
amazing series of 347 engravings, restating earlier themes : the circus, the restating
earlier themes : the circus, the bullfight, the theater and lovemaking. |
| 1971 |
His work was
exhibited at the Louvre in Paris honoring him on his 90th birthday. |
| 1973 |
He died in his
villa Notre-Dame-de-Vie Mougins on 8th April. |
| 1980 |
A major
exhibition of his work was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. |
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