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Pablo Picasso's Portraits of Women - Evolution of Picasso's Painting MasterpiecesnAuthentic Hand Painted Canvas Art (Famous Picasso Masterpieces) Free Shipping.......n- Video Testimonials (1000s) on Authentic Hand Painted Canvas Art Paintings.......nhttp://www.FamousArtistsofHistory.com/VideoTestimonialsOnOilPaintingReproductions.phpnhttp://www.PaintingsTube.comnnnMusic: Acoustik Guitar by John H. Clarke and Armik - Mystical Eden, Gypsy FlamennPablo Ruiz y Picasso, known as Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 -- 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.nnPicasso, Henri Matisse and Marcel Duchamp are regarded as the three artists who most defined the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting, sculpture, printmaking and ceramics.nnPicasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a realistic manner through his childhood and adolescence. During the first decade of the 20th century, his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. His revolutionary artistic accomplishments brought him universal renown and immense fortune, making him one of the best-known figures in 20th-century art.nnPicasso's training under his father began before 1890. His progress can be traced in the collection of early works now held by the Museu Picasso in Barcelona, which provides one of the most comprehensive records extant of any major artist's beginnings. During 1893 the juvenile quality of his earliest work falls away, and by 1894 his career as a painter can be said to have begun. The academic realism apparent in the works of the mid-1890s is well displayed in The First Communion (1896), a large composition that depicts his sister, Lola. In the same year, at the age of 14, he painted Portrait of Aunt Pepa, a vigorous and dramatic portrait that Juan-Eduardo Cirlot has called "without a doubt one of the greatest in the whole history of Spanish painting."nnPicasso's Blue Period (1901--1904) consists of somber paintings rendered in shades of blue and blue-green, only occasionally warmed by other colors. This period's starting point is uncertain; it may have begun in Spain in early 1901, or in Paris in the second half of the year. Many paintings of gaunt mothers with children date from this period. In his austere use of color and sometimes doleful subject matter -- prostitutes and beggars are frequent subjects -- Picasso was influenced by a trip through Spain and by the suicide of his friend Carlos Casagemas. Starting in autumn of 1901 he painted several posthumous portraits of Casagemas, culminating in the gloomy allegorical painting La Vie (1903), now in the Cleveland Museum of Art.nnThe Rose Period (1904--1906) is characterized by a more cheery style with orange and pink colors, and featuring many circus people, acrobats and harlequins known in France as saltimbanques. The harlequin, a comedic character usually depicted in checkered patterned clothing, became a personal symbol for Picasso. Picasso met Fernande Olivier, a model for sculptors and artists, in Paris in 1904, and many of these paintings are influenced by his warm relationship with her, in addition to his increased exposure to French painting. The generally upbeat and optimistic mood of paintings in this period is reminiscent of the 1899--1901 period (i.e. just prior to the Blue Period) and 1904 can be considered a transition year between the two periods.nnSome of Picasso's Paintingsnn1896 - Portrait of the Artist's Mother.nn1901 - Woman in a Plummed Hatnn1903 - Portrait of a Young Woman. nn1904 - Woman with a Crow. nnLady with a Fan - Artist model Fernande Olivier (1881-1966)nn1907 - Nude Half Lengthnn1909 - Woman and Pears Fernande Oliviernn1906 - Portrait of Gertrude Stein.nn1912-1915 Eva - Marcelle Humbert (Eva Gouel 1885-1915)nn1917 - Portrait of his wife Olga in Armchair.nn1922 - Portrait of Mme Olga Picasso.nn1921-22 - Mother and Child. Less