Being the son of a painter, Pablo Picasso, (formerly known as Jose Ruiz Blasco) took his mothers name when painting, Picasso, at the age of 20. His art took him from the muted nostalgia of his figure paintings during the Blue Period; to the figures inspired by primitive cultures, known as the Rose Period, to his Cubism style. He eventually became known as the father of modern art. In the 1920s Picasso participated in a revival of classicsm to an interest in Surrealism. But in 1930 he returned to Cubism for his great mural against Franco fascist insurrection, called Guernica (1937). After world war 2 Picasso settled in France where he produced an innumerable amount of art works which left a great mark on the evolution of 20th century art.

PICASSO'S THOUGHTS ON ART

(c 1948) " It is useful for an artist to know all the forms of art which have preceeded him. But he must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as a model, he is lost. Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle. What I have to do is utilize as best I can the ideas which objects suggest to me, connect, fust, and color in my way the shadows they cast within me, iluminate them from the inside. And since of necessity my vision is quite different from that of the next man, my painting will interpret things in an entirely different manner even though it makes use of the same elements."

(c 1963) "Braque always said that the thing that counts, in painting is the intention of the artist, and it is true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important. In the end what was important is what one wanted to do, the intention one had."

(c 1963) "Everything can be explained scientifically today, except Art. You can go to the moon or walk under the sea, or anything else you like, but painting remains painting because it eludes such investigation. It remains there like a question. And it alone gives the answer."

List of Picasso's paintings

Accordionist Acrobat and Young Harlequin Assemblage mounted in Picasso's studio Bather Bon Marche Bottle of Vieux Marc, Glass, and Newspaper Boy Leading a Horse Bread and Fruit Dish on a Table Brick Factory in Tortosa Bowl of Fruit (The Fruit Dish) Composition: The Peasants The Dance The Dance of the Veils (Nude with Drapes) Les Demoiselles d'Avignon Dove with Green Peas The Dream Evocation (The Burial of Casagemas) The Girl with a Goat Girl with a Mandolin (Fanny Tellier) Girl with Plumed Hat Glass and Bottle of Bass Glass and Bottle of Suze Glass of Absinthe Glass, Dice, and Newspaper Guernica Guitar (La guitare) Guitar, Newspaper, Glass and Bottle Guitar, Sheet Music, Glass The Guitar Player Harlequin and Woman with a Necklace Head of a Man Head of a Woman (Olga Picasso)

House in a Garden (House and Trees) Houses on the Hill, Horta de Ebro  L'aubade Landscape with Bridge Large Heads "Ma Jolie" (Woman with a Zither or Guitar) The Man with the Golden Helmet Man with a Hat Man with a Violin Maquette for Guitar Las Meninas (after Velazquez) Musketeer and Cupid Musketeer with Pipe Musketeer with Pipe and Flowers Nude and Smoker Paul as Harlequin The Pigeons The Poet (Ceret) The Poet (Sorgues) Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler Portrait of a Girl Portrait of Manuel Pallares Portrait of Wilhelm Uhde Portrait of Ambroise Vollard Rape of the Sabines Rembrandtesque Figure and Cupid Reservoir at Horta The Scallop Shell Seated Man (Self-portrait) Seated Man with Sword and Flower Seated Old Man Self-portrait with Uncombed Hair (1896) Self-portrait (1900)

Self Portrait: "Yo Picasso" (spring 1901) Self-portrait "Yo" (summer 1901) Self-portrait with Cloak (late 1901) Self-portrait with a Palette (1906) Self-portrait (1907) Self Portrait Facing Death (1972) Siphon, Glass, Newspaper, and Violin Skull and Pitcher The Sleepers (Les dormeurs) The Smoker (Homme a la pipe) Souvenir de Havre Spanish Still Life: Sun and Shadow Gertrude Stein Still Life (Tate) Still Life with Bottle and Glass Still Life with Chair-Caning Still Life with Death's Head Still Life with Fruitdish on a Table Still Life on a Piano Still Life with Violin and Fruit Student with Newspaper Three Musicians (MoMA) Three Women Vase, Bowl, and Lemon Violin Violin, Glass, Pipe and Inkpot Wine Glass Woman and Child on the Seashore Woman in an Armchair Woman Sitting in an Armchair Woman with Blue Veil Woman with a Cigarette Woman with a Fan The Young Painter

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